"It took Skynet 1/10,000th of a second to come to that same conclusion."
Posted on 06/06/2016 3:04:31 PM PDT by plain talk
As we reach the middle of the 21st century, half the population of the world will lose their job to a machine. The latest comes from Moshe Vardi, professor at Rice University , Houston, who delivered a talk to the American Association for the Advancement of Science , exploring the question: "If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?"
Vardi reckons that half of workers across the globe will be replaced by machines within the next 30 years, wiping out middle-class jobs and "exacerbating inequality". He noted that robots would take over in many spheres of life, including automated driving and sex robots. As the Guardian reports, he also observed that this future is likely to mean humans have much more leisure time — indeed we may only work a handful of hours per week.
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Bitcoin.
It’s only worth it if we can get robots to replace everyone in the Congress, Senate, and Executive branches of our government.
If robots do everything then what do we need people for?
We don’t need money. We can just trade toilet paper to unemployed Venezuelans. Put them to work building robots. If we are going to have ‘free trade’ then let’s use if for something that makes sense.
The service industries, plumbers, electricians, etc., will always survive and flourish.
We will invent new industries like when people thought the early Industrial Revolution would put most people out of work too.
Still should be job for humans - making predictions that are 30 years away that if they don’t pan out no-one will remember that they were made.
If I was heading off to schhol, I would be studying robotics and mechanical and or electrical engineering. NOT programming beyond the basics. They are not always working properly, taks that are smaller can be even trickier. They do not replace people 1:1. Too much maintenance for hardware, software adjustments, not to mention the electrical and physical plant needs of support, relocation and line adjustments for developing profiles. They need to be constantly calibrated and supported. This is not as bleak as it appears on the surface, anymore than the assembly line was for America in the 00’s and teens. 1900 that is. Everything that is old is new again.
or, go be a farmer and build a self sustaining life. It’s a hell of a lot easier today than it was back then too.
If we are gonna have sex bots we are gonna need incubation bots to raise new children so we dont have to import turd world savages to destroy all we have built.
Let me program the mommy and daddy bots, free republic values will be instilled upon the robot reared replacements otherwise we are gonna end up like sweden or germany level of screwed.
Great, robot politicians.
Oh, wait, we already have those, and robot voters too.
"It took Skynet 1/10,000th of a second to come to that same conclusion."
Well somebody needs to consume all the stuff the robots make.
The robots (or their masters) will ask that question.
there were many Twilight Zone episodes predicting this back in the 60’s.
“The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTU’s of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need.” — Morpheus
Robots will take over most jobs in the world by 2045
Horsehockey.
“We will invent new industries like when people thought the early Industrial Revolution would put most people out of work too.”
So true. I remember the lament about about “Casey the Steel Driving Man” who built the railroads, being replaced by a steam engine.
Those typing pools - big rooms filled with row upon row of ladies typing letters from handwritten pages - are long gone. So are so many of the farm jobs, which employed the majority of the population in 1900 (now about 3%).
30 years ago, nobody dreamed of becoming a web designer, or anything else on the Internet. In thirty years from now, if we still have security and freedom, we will be able to do so much more than ever before.
A major expected effect of robots making and moving most everything for us, should also be a huge reduction in the cost of living.
A mighty big "if", the way things are going today!
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