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Feudal estates, indentured ‘servants’ maybe some people in the woods hunting the ‘kings’ game and shooting arrows and swinging swords ...
Massive welfare stares with make work jobs for the masses.
will this AI not need repairs, updates, creation of new and better?
i was told TWENTY ONE years ago when i was learning Microsoft an typing to NOT BOTHER, some old beat up fellow cabbie said “there are talking typewriters now, they dont need typists!!!
In between graphics gigs, until it became steady i would type 100 wpm for 30 an hour at law firms.
i still know people in presentations centers at law firms and investment banks.
voice typing software isn’t even ON THE TABLE!!
there’s always a job to be found
you should see what my phone types out when i speak in my NY accent. “Go to the store” becomes “your mother’s a @#$#$” lol
seriously, you should see WHAT I ALMOST sent out before reviewing.
on top of everything else, the software has a dirty mind lol
It is coming whether people believe it or not.
The Quantum Chip will change everything and bring us into the Jetsons.
It’s suppose to be released to the Republic in 2024 or 8 years from now.
http://www.dwavesys.com/quantum-computing
Half of the world is employed as sex workers?
An unintended consequence of a low interest rate policy, cheap capital makes it easier to invest in machines than hire flesh and blood people.
Great... now I have that Youtube video “Sex Robot” stuck in my head.
Service industry jobs and electricians and toilet unclogers and windshield replacers and new tire stores and automotive mechanics will always be needed.
We don’t need a “race” of robots. The libs would protest for civil rights for them. If you didn’t buy one, you’d be called a “robophobe”. They’d all be programmed to vote for democrats. We’d get a movement called “REM” (Robots Existence Matters). If you didn’t convert to their beliefs (programming), they’d laser-zap your head off. They would start getting elected to city councils and city mayors. There would be a big row as to which robots were male, and which were female. They would establish robot unions.
Before you know it, we’d have Terminators.
There are a lot of skilled labor jobs going begging, because we train people to be administrators and overseers, when we need fewer chiefs and more Indians. And there are many other jobs people do better, and their employment in those areas will go up as labor costs drop.
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://hubpages.com/business/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment
Well, I’m sure the half that are SOL will just slink away and quietly die.Or not.
Only if they could cook, vacuum and do the laundry too........
Because of the creative and entrepreneurial nature of people, there will always be jobs to be done. What robots do will free people up to pursue other more creative and inventive projects.
That, and things always have to be fixed.
Automation doesn’t dispense with people, it multiplies them, it allows a man to be a dozen men or a thousand men which frees other men to go after other goals. Automation, in the hands of free people, is a great boon.
If this is accurate, the people replaced by robots could find other jobs that robots cannot do as well, and we would all be better off. In the real world though, most of those people will be on welfare, despite the fact that being parasites would be far more harmful to them than real work. Even bringing back Civilian Conservation Corps would be much better. If you have people too unmotivated to find a real job, create a government job moving dirt from one place to another, or picking up trash, rather than just sending them a welfare check.
Didn’t Frank Herbert write about this? It all went bad IIRC.
You mean like strip poker?
In the farm world, AI means Artificial insemination.
In the steel shop world it means Authorized Inspector.
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