Robots Are Taking Our White Collar Jobs, Too

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No one would listen when I said we needed to take action now against the growing robot threat, now look what has happened! I'm telling you, the only good robot is a dead robot.

Robots have transformed the lives of tradesmen and laborers, but lawyers, architects, and doctors tend to believe that their careers are safe from the advances of artificial intelligence. This belief is entirely wrong, according to the upcoming book, Future of the Professions: How Technology will Transform the Work of Human Experts.
 
good - bring on the robos. id rather spend time on hobbies rather than menial work.

but when the great robot wars come, you gotta choose which side youre on. robots, or humans. you can put your brain in a robot body, but remember youll only be 5 ft tall.
 
Get ready for life as a battery in a pod of liquid that helps power the machinery that builds and maintains our soon-to-be robot overlords.
 
Robots will never take the place of lawyers, politicians, and upper management types. Not that robots couldn't do a better job, but those with money and power actually do care when it comes to protecting their jobs.
 
Quix said:
They're still going to need more programmers.
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What makes you think software won't become self-improving / self-writing in the near future.

Once they get to the point where a system can understand the logic of a programming language, there's no reason software won't be able to write good software.
 
Steve said:
No one would listen when I said we needed to take action now against the growing robot threat, now look what has happened! I'm telling you, the only good robot is a dead robot.

Robots have transformed the lives of tradesmen and laborers, but lawyers, architects, and doctors tend to believe that their careers are safe from the advances of artificial intelligence. This belief is entirely wrong, according to the upcoming book, Future of the Professions: How Technology will Transform the Work of Human Experts.
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With all the "death to robots" stuff you write, you know they're coming for you first, right? ;)
 
Quix said:
They're still going to need more programmers.
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Too bad most are distracted with making the next Facebook and other meaningless apps. We always say we need more programmers. And when we get them, they all do meaningless stuff. We need to say, we need more programmers who actually want to work on productive things.
 
wasabiman123 said:
Explain how it replaces lawyers lmao
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I'm a lawyer. Robots already do some tasks that lawyers used to do. For example, junior lawyers used to spend untold hours sorting through boxes of paper looking for documents relevant to a case. Now, AI already takes a first pass and pulls the relevant documents, and flags potential issues. More advanced AI could feasibly draft basic legal documents (legal zoom is essentially a version of this- input your desired parameters and out pops a legal document).

What robots can't handle well is the political aspects of the legal profession. Ultimately, a jury doesn't want to listen to a robot argue a case, and business people want to negotiate with human beings on the other side of a table. We build robots to remove rote work, not to make value judgments for us. As the article notes, the high-end positions that get to make value judgments get hit last (if ever). Low-end drudge work gets automated away.
 
AI, machine learning, algorithms, etc, replaces lawyers, not necessarily robots.

And it'll be interesting to see when this happens, all those who poo-poo'ed those in lower end jobs telling them to get more education, how those same people react.
 
Steve said:
No one would listen when I said we needed to take action now against the growing robot threat, now look what has happened! I'm telling you, the only good robot is a dead robot.

Robots have transformed the lives of tradesmen and laborers, but lawyers, architects, and doctors tend to believe that their careers are safe from the advances of artificial intelligence. This belief is entirely wrong, according to the upcoming book, Future of the Professions: How Technology will Transform the Work of Human Experts.
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Look out, I fear Kyle and Brent are working on a CyberSteve to take on your duties. :D:D
 
nealric said:
I'm a lawyer. Robots already do some tasks that lawyers used to do. For example, junior lawyers used to spend untold hours sorting through boxes of paper looking for documents relevant to a case. Now, AI already takes a first pass and pulls the relevant documents, and flags potential issues. More advanced AI could feasibly draft basic legal documents (legal zoom is essentially a version of this- input your desired parameters and out pops a legal document).

What robots can't handle well is the political aspects of the legal profession. Ultimately, a jury doesn't want to listen to a robot argue a case, and business people want to negotiate with human beings on the other side of a table. We build robots to remove rote work, not to make value judgments for us. As the article notes, the high-end positions that get to make value judgments get hit last (if ever). Low-end drudge work gets automated away.
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Discovery would be a job that is perfect for robots.
 
wasabiman123 said:
Explain how it replaces lawyers lmao
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I like the thought that of the professions architect, doctor, and lawyer, lawyer was the least believable to you. The thought being "a robot could replace an architect, sure, a doctor, yeah, a lawyer... hey, wait a minute here." I'm not saying your wrong. It's also hard to imagine a robot credibly suing another robot for malpractice, especially if both the defendant and plaintiff are robots being represented by robots being heard by a robot jury presided over by a robot judge. I can't imagine a robot doing the work of Jack Thompson (at least not until quantum computing, where presumably logic also defies Newtonian understanding)

Hey, now that's an idea. Most people don't like jury duty - make robots do it.

Stoly said:
Look out, I fear Kyle and Brent are working on a CyberSteve to take on your duties. :D:D
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LOL! at RoboSteve convincingly continuing Steve's campaign against the growing robot threat.

Maybe robots will see need to maintain an ecological balance and determine humans are suited to caring for other animals and life. Or, to quote the wise 90s band Porno for Pyros, "we'll make great pets".

Maybe humans will make such a uniquely satisfying crunch under the robot boot of oppression that they will want to maintain a ready and ample supply.
 
I keep thinking of Charleton Heston from Planet of the Apes saying damn dirty apes, but in this case, it's robo-Charleton and we're the damn dirty apes of which he speaks.
 
nealric said:
What robots can't handle well is the political aspects of the legal profession. Ultimately, a jury doesn't want to listen to a robot argue a case, and business people want to negotiate with human beings on the other side of a table. We build robots to remove rote work, not to make value judgments for us. As the article notes, the high-end positions that get to make value judgments get hit last (if ever). Low-end drudge work gets automated away.
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It's only a matter of time before they can handle the political aspects.

For example, with chess. In 1968, David Levy made a bet that no AI could beat him in chess in 10 years. He did win his bet, but admitted "I had proved that my 1968 assessment had been correct, but on the other hand my opponent in this match was very, very much stronger than I had thought possible when I started the bet."

AI is already good at poker. A lot of people thought that poker involves the ability to read people, unlike a game of chess, which is purely mathematical, but apparently you can quantify the human aspect of it. What's to say you can't quantify the political aspect of a lawyer's job also?
 
ccman said:
... if both the defendant and plaintiff are robots being represented by robots being heard by a robot jury presided over by a robot judge.
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At that point, all the different robots could be VMs (virtual machines) all in one robot Judge Dredd body.
 
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