That’s just Apple’s Siri with a different form factor. Yes, it will reduce the need for people to look things up, or whatever else it does — but, that doesn’t mean that people won’t find other ways to make a useful contribution.
Granted, it’s likely that we’ll have lots of people who have no useful skills, or who are content with living off whatever wealth is distributed by their benevolent robot overlords. These people will likely take drugs, join in riots, vote Democrat, and otherwise be wastes of skin and oxygen. IOW, pretty much how things are now.
I had to fix my washing machine the other day. I didn’t know how to go about it.
Instead of calling appliance repair, I googled how to fix it, easily found the right part along with an online video showing how to install the part.
Appliance repairman is another job that will be going extinct.
Or whatever else it does??? Faster than you think, things like that will be doing more than look things up.
I have a family full of technology workers. I remember telling one of them back in the early 1980s that we will soon see a computer beat the top chess masters, and he just couldn't believe it possible.
Well it happened about ten years later--and that was twenty years ago already.
It's not so much that he didn't understand the growth of computer power, but rather he didn't understand the human mind, so he didn't see how a bunch of yes/no switches could replicate much human mental functioning.
And I think many here don't understand it either.
but, that doesn’t mean that people won’t find other ways to make a useful contribution.
Like what?
Get a load of the fools admiring their new toy in the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc
It must be like when children find unexploded cluster bomblets—they think they found an amusing new toy, but what they really found is destruction.