The Robots Are Coming

Townhall.com ^ | April 10, 2021 | Charles Sauer

[P.O.E.]

“Alexa, make me a sandwich”

[wildcard_redneck]

Is he serious? “Small inventors” don’t even show on the radar. Stories are made up about the little guy(s) inventing something or starting a company from the bootstraps. Bull. Inventions and technology largely come out of - and have always - government, military and intelligence (see DARPA). Like the internet!

Tell that to Orville and Wilbur Wright.

[Theoria]

Sure, it is all a circle. The lower paid crowd yelling for more wages are a symptom of the ever increasing productivity of tech and innovation. The robot and AI was always coming, it is the nature of innovation, and the neoluddites will be wiped away, just as the rest of the commons.

[BipolarBob]

I don't own a robot. I never want to own a robot. I don't want robots hating me because I once "owned" them. I watched the documentary "ex machina" and feel they would want reparations years from now. The whole things a landmine as far as I'm concerned.

[refermech]

Ha ha , you are quite correct. They will never be able to match a skilled worker. Never.

[ctdonath2]

“Alexa, make me a sandwich”

Alexa will then put in an order for a random sandwich from Panera, a robot there will assemble & package it, a self-driving Uber Eats robo-taxi will pick it up and bring it to your home, all billing your Amazon credit card.

[MuttTheHoople]

Better get Robot insurance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM

[Starcitizen]

Once robots start flipping burgers and they can get rid of all that expensive labor, I expect their prices to dramatically decrease.
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You mean profits to dramatically increase....

[P.O.E.]

Ordering Pizza in the Future

This is from 13 years ago, so the future is now.

[dfwgator]

[P.O.E.]

That movie was as prophetic as 1984, Fahrenheit 451, etc.

[Keyhopper]

Yes, been awhile