“Someone has to build the robots and program the software. Based on the performance and durability of modern day electronics, the robots will have to be upgraded/replaced once a year. The software will undergo neverending revisions. Takes people to do that.”
A handful of jobs at most.
Robots will build the robots.
A friend works in food automation. Him and 6 other guys fix all the machines at a large food prep plant over 3 shifts.
30% 0f the population is untrainable.
Wait in 10 years or less when 3.5 million long haul truckers lose their jobs to self driving trucks.
“A friend works in food automation. Him and 6 other guys fix all the machines at a large food prep plant over 3 shifts.”
I want to add he has worked there since 1990. They had 600 employees now down to 90-all due to automation. They are producing triple the amount of product.
When the robots take over all the manufacturing jobs are gonna be lost.
I’ve read AI and robots are going to wipe out 60-70% of jobs in 15-20 years
Don’t laugh but I predict a day when governments the world over will ban labor saving products so they can keep the population working. That or major population control.
Do have some concerns for the segment of the population a standard deviation or so to left of mean on the bell curve, but consider this - heard serious concerns about computer tech leaving the unwashed masses in the lurch back in the day and predicted advances in computational power and interface design would solve that issue.
The new iPhone has many times the computational horsepower of the Cray supercomputer of the 1980s and it is routinely used by 12 year old girls in the ghetto who can barely read or write.