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The traditional logic has been that as automation replaces people in areas of labor, this simply opens up new opportunities that would not have been previously possible, and this greatly benefits mankind in the end. The two Industrial Revolutions and the agricultural Green Revolution are often the prime examples of this theory in action. But as advances in AI are made, will this continue to be the case?
1 posted on 10/30/2011 10:30:07 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
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Artificial Intelligence took over No-Bama’s Brain many years ago.
I think they should improve their new models.


2 posted on 10/30/2011 10:43:03 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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Real intelligence is constantly destroying “jobs.” The question to ask is: why are Democrats so beholden to anachronistic and shrinking unions thai they keep in place laws and regulations that protect those unions and punish the independent, job-free worker?


3 posted on 10/30/2011 10:55:37 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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In the end, there will only be two jobs in America. One for a dog and the other for a man.

The man’s job is to feed the dog. The dog’s job is to keep the man away from the computer.

I’m the man, you’re all hungry.


4 posted on 10/30/2011 11:25:17 PM PDT by Jonty30
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I’m more worried about what happens when AI gets advanced to the point that robots fancy themselves as superior to humans and suprass human brain power. Than being out fo work wont be an issue for us-we’ll have plenty of unpaid labor provided to us by machines whose AI got too advanced.


5 posted on 10/30/2011 11:30:58 PM PDT by emax
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considering many people under 30 cannot do a simple percentage...

hand calculators can take American jobs. forget AI

on top of that, there are only about 140m jobs in the US... and almost 7 billion people on the planet

the odds are, a person in a 3rd world country will gladly take your job, if possible.

this is not a sellers market (workers selling labor)... this is a buyers market where Americans will lose if we allow free trade and open borders for anyone to compete for American jobs. the supply of potential labor will just crush labor prices


6 posted on 10/30/2011 11:34:43 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Conclusion of video discussion:

Automation has been and is doing two things: creating wealth, and taking jobs away from human beings.

This trend is continuing and accelerating. Machines are now capable of doing enough to take away quite a few of the “middle” jobs. The ones that are left are increasingly menial and low-paying, or high-end jobs that a machine can’t (yet) do. But every day, more of the middle jobs are getting eaten up. In the last 4 years, companies have increased their spending on human resources 2%, but increased their spending on software & technology between 20 and 30%.

This increase in automation is driving a growing widening gap between the poor and the rich, with some of the rich (who own the companies that are employing machines) becoming more and more fabulously wealthy as they are increasingly the beneficiaries of the wealth created by the machines. This is particularly true in the developed countries.

The people in the discussion seemed to conclude that the only possible remedy for this unbalancing of wealth is going to be a more progressive income tax.


8 posted on 10/31/2011 1:03:44 AM PDT by Jeff Winston
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Automation is steadily eliminating all "blue collar" jobs and making encroachments on many "white collar" professions as well. I was stunned to discover that there even computer systems that can perform entry-level engineering jobs out there.

The question is whether the segment of people who used to fill these jobs can be channeled towards other types of jobs or if we are facing a future where a large portion of people will have to be supported indefinitely because there won't be any place for them in the workworce.

In effect, we are doing that now with extending unemployment and other forms of government payments.

11 posted on 10/31/2011 2:48:09 AM PDT by Chainmail
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20 posted on 10/31/2011 10:33:44 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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It already has.

The comming age is the age of composits.

That will be all automation a victory will belong to the nation which domiciles the PROFITS.


27 posted on 10/31/2011 11:44:07 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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