Chinese Company Replaces Humans With Robots, Production Skyrockets, Mistakes Disappear

Zero Hedge ^ | 08/01/2015 | Tyler Durden

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Never before have we been faced with the kind of technology that is already available or being perfected. There is almost no job that robots won't be capable of doing (or in many cases, are already capable of doing, but the price of robots is still too high to deploy them en masse). It might take 30 or 40 years before we reach that point, but it is coming.

The industrial revolution did cause massive disruption in society and changed society for the worse. Sure, society eventually "corrected," but the this time around the rules of the game won't be the same, because unlike in the past, no job is safe. People will survive no doubt, but the dignity inherent in labor will be denied to more people than ever before, sacrificed on the altar of the almighty buck. This is 1 Timothy 6:10 playing out on a societal level. This is not a Godly direction to take.

[tumblindice]

NUUMI: GM-Toyota in Fremont? Yeah, UAW thugs wrecked that attempt at success with sabotage.

[Chode]

must be that Marvel Mystery Oil...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Luckily Rebecca has valuable marketable skills.

[Democrat_media]

WE are not doing much here in the USA.

This technology of robots is being developed in China.

so why are you saying WE? who is we?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

They run that contest every year(ish(?)) and every time the robots perform better. The current goal of making robots with the critical thinking abilities of a toddler is still a long way off, but that doesn't really matter. The technology that allows robots to perform complex tasks and to "learn" new skills is already available, even if the robot is dumb outside of its specific task.

Both the US and Israel (and maybe Russia) already have autonomy-capable weapon-systems (various drones and turrets), but between the horrendous PR and the fairly primitive capabilities of the systems ("is that a border-jumper or a goat-herder or a tumbleweed"), they aren't used as such. I think it will be sooner than a couple generations that they are deployed.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"This technology of robots" is being developed everywhere. The Chinese are focused on industrial applications, but where do you think robotic surgeons are being researched and developed? Who has smart-drones and bomb-defusing robots are being used? And once it becomes economically feasible, every developed country will have robots doing half or more of the jobs. Hell, even India is trying to stay in the race to develop feasible robotic technology.

So to answer your question, "we" are the "we the people," the ones who will have to adapt to a society in which robots have displaced millions of workers from a huge variety of jobs.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Should be, “*Who has smart-drones and bomb-defusing robots already in use?”

[Democrat_media]

You can’t predict the future. A 5 mile meteor could strike the Earth next week and that could send people back to the stone age with a 100 or so humans alive.

[Democrat_media]

So what do you propose “we” do now? or what does an individual do to prepare for this?

[TexasGator]

“In-N-Out Burger has found a way to pay more than others for starting off, then increasing the pay very soon for employees.”

At In-N-Out they never stand around with mouths open and they can converse in English.

[Patriot Babe]

With a little makeup that little robot would come out looking like Chucky. =)

[2tipsea]

Yeah, I knew a guy who was hired as a manager there in the late 80’s. Very well educated, MBA from Wharton, and this plant was considered cutting edge for the automotive industry. He was very keen on how they ran things.

Later there were union problems, and eventually the government intervened somehow, I believe on behalf of Tesla, who ended up the new owner of the factory. Not sure if that’s considered a govt “buy out” but there was something very convoluted about it, according to my friend.

To be honest, I could not follow the confusing story of union/business/govt shenanigans, but then I don’t have an MBA!

[2tipsea]

So true! Or a Carrington Event.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"So what do you propose “we” do now? or what does an individual do to prepare for this?"

That's the million-dollar question.

And while I can't predict the future, A.I. researchers at a Dutch university (can't recall which one) have predicted that Massachusetts will be the first US state to legalize human-robot marriage. It sounds preposterous, but people predicting legalized same-sex "marriages" in the 1980's sounded pretty preposterous too.

[Cloverfarm]

Where I work, they studied whether robotic welders or humans turned out more failed units.

Everyone thought the stupid humans were the ones messing up.

Not so.

[TexasTransplant]

I want a Robot that can mow the lawn so I can go fishing

[Enlightened1]

They have another name for that.... It’s call slave labor.

[Democrat_media]

Yes, this could happen next week, a meteor hitting the Earth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tl3P3BaWeA

so we can’t predict the future

[tumblindice]

They built the Geo Prism which was basically a Toyota Corolla.
But the UAW didn’t appreciate having to work like Japanese—productive, efficient, hardworking—so they started breaking things, and the Japanese finally said, “OK, we tried.” and left.