Google robot is 'the end of manual labor': VC

cnbc.com ^ | February 24, 2016 | Fred Imbert

[grundle]

Boston Dynamics' new "Atlas" robot is a game changer, not just for companies, but for society, Insider.com CEO Jason Calacanis said Wednesday.

"This is really the end of manual labor. When you watch this video, he's walking through the snow; he's wobbly, but he gets back up," the tech investor told CNBC's "Squawk Alley."

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See the robot at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

[Dr. Sivana]

It’s only the end if they start assembling themselves.

[BenLurkin]

Then what in the world do we need unskilled immigrants for?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yes, but can it core a apple?

[buwaya]

Another couple of decades I think.
And then people may decide that people are cheaper after all.

[txnativegop]

what is so wrong with getting dirty and sweating while working? In my youth that was called an honest days’ work.

[ETL]

[cuban leaf]

The time is very near - VERY near - where humans will not be needed for any task whatsoever. And I mean ANY task. By “very”, I mean 20 years at the most.

It will implode very fast.

[Smokin' Joe]

Hokay! Manuel! You can go home, now!

[Ken H]

Yes, but can it core a apple?

No, but neither can the FBI.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Isn’t it weird when you watch that and you see the guy with the hockey stick push the robot you get this feeling of “that’s a mean thing to do”? But it’s not mean, it’s just a demonstration.

[cuban leaf]

A lot of trickery in that video. Look at all the square sheets with large bar codes. Even on the boxes.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

It's only the end if they start assembling themselves.

Well they assemble cars and other complicated products.

[wally_bert]

Can it shrug?

[wally_bert]

I agree with you pretty much.

[bigbob]

OK so in the future when people want to go for a walk in the woods, they’ll send one of these instead.

The robot is about ready to kick that guys ass at the end.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The time is very near - VERY near - where humans will not be needed for any task whatsoever. And I mean ANY task. By very, I mean 20 years at the most. It will implode very fast.

Great. That will end the reign of terror of millions of bureaucRATS and other union thugs.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

What then? Does every body get put on welfare or does the elite start culling the masses to free up resources so that they can live in unprecedented luxury?

[Black Agnes]

Precisely the reason the elites are so heavily invested in this stuff.

They plan on doing away with US yet retaining their full service lifestyles.

And these robots will feel absolutely no remorse killing as many humans as they can, if directed to do so.

[Black Agnes]

Culling.

When they say 95-99% of the rest of us dead, they’re not joking.