Chart That Tells You When Your Job Will Be Done By A Robot

[mesyn191]

 

[DukenukemX]

Adapt? How?! There flat out won't be as many jobs and many aren't capable of retraining to be a programmer, scientist, engineer, or competent artist.

Most jobs are automatable. If you're doing something repetitive, it's automatable. With the exception of jobs like scientist, engineer, and artists. The only reason, "ONLY REASON" your job hasn't been replaced with a machine is because you're cheaper than a machine.

Even if they were that'd just create a race to the bottom in wages for those careers since programmers, scientists, engieers, and competent artists would become as common as burger flippers with wages to match!

Just look on YouTube. A lot of people have resorted to becoming a YouTube star to make a living. Anyone can do it.

In a future where robot labor permanently displaces a large minority of the population from the work place there is no compensation or adaptation possible for those out of work!! That is why govt. support is needed for society at that point.

At that point unless you're Bill Gates rich, you're screwed. At that point the economy would need to be redesigned.

Anyone ever see the robots they have in car factories? Those things are amazing. And this has been going on for well over a decade.

 

[ruffbytes]

Funny how apparently I am much more cynical than most with regards to Artificial Intelligence (AI). In essence we are talking about software and despite the flaws and bugs in software people are willing to assume replacing people with software controlled machines?

People who are dependent upon investors for financing may wish to glorify the state of AI but we are still a long, long way from ex machina...

I completely agree with this ^^

 

[mesyn191]

A lot of people have resorted to becoming a YouTube star to make a living....At that point the economy would need to be redesigned.

Most of the stuff you're mentioning has been brought up already in the thread. I'd say "become a Youtube star" falls under the artist career path I mentioned which many can't retrain into so I hope you're being silly when you bring it up. That the economy needs to be redesigned is also kinda been my point too.

 

[DukenukemX]

Most of the stuff you're mentioning has been brought up already in the thread. I'd say "become a Youtube star" falls under the artist career path I mentioned which many can't retrain into so I hope you're being silly when you bring it up. That the economy needs to be redesigned is also kinda been my point too.

So we agree to agree? Ok, cool?

Funny how apparently I am much more cynical than most with regards to Artificial Intelligence (AI). In essence we are talking about software and despite the flaws and bugs in software people are willing to assume replacing people with software controlled machines?

People who are dependent upon investors for financing may wish to glorify the state of AI but we are still a long, long way from ex machina...

Ex Machina AI is not the same kind of AI that the industry is producing. We call NPC's in games AI, but it's not Ex Machina AI.

Take self driving cars for example, as they run off a form of AI. It's not suddenly going to turn around and kill all humans because it's an AI. It's an AI designed to drive down the road and that's it. This is mostly thanks to the enormous access it has to information. You'll find that the more data AI has access to, the best it can come up with an answer. At it's core it's just another algorithm that's trying to satisfy a condition. It doesn't get pissed off, it doesn't get happy, doesn't get sad, doesn't laugh at your jokes, it just runs program.


Investors at their core just make decisions based on the data they have. Here's an example.

while (price of coffee is still higher than 'X') {
keep buying coffee
minus money from 'X'
}

That's just one thing an investor does. A good AI would cover everything a investor does. Cover all the bases and no investor needed. And unlike investors it doesn't sleep, responds faster than a human can, and won't try to work against you. The sad thing is investors also want AI as a tool as well. Why pay the investor is they're going to use an AI when you could just use the AI yourself?

As far as Terminator type AI or Ex Machina, we're a long way off to reach that goal. But you don't need it to do most tasks humans do.

 

[Ocean]

imo, america already is far too productive. we have enough productivity already to supply acceptable lifestyles for every man woman and child in america.

and there are too many middle men that contribute next to nothing for productivity but still scrape off 80% of the wealth for themselves. i look forward to their jobs being automated.

 

[PurduEE]

No way that desk jobs will disappear that quickly. As for the legal system, maybe behind the scenes stuff could be handled by software, but I wouldn't want a computer arguing my case. Juries are moved by more than facts and I don't think AI will pass a Turing test in the next 10 years.

Seriously. Barring a constitutional change (robots will become self-aware before this happens again), juries will be made up of humans. If those humans have, by and large, lots jobs (or know people who've lost jobs) to robots, they are very unlikely to be persuaded by the arguments of a robot as opposed to a flesh-and-blood human.

Lawyers (litigators anyway) aren't going anywhere...

In addition, recall that recent case about a chimp not having the copyright to his own selfie. If you have robots working for your company, we will need serious legal reform before they can generate intellectual property that can be owned by the company that owns the robot (e.g., patents, copyright, etc.)

In short, the bloated mess that is our legal system shall be our salvation...

 

[danc3]

I guess I should start getting a job that involves fixing, inventing, or overseeing these robots. Unless a robot is the one who does that job already. Damn it.

 

[mesyn191]

Better to be the guy doing the programming than the guy trying to fix them on site. Being on call 24 hours a day to drive all over the place to fix random crap you know only the general details about is no fun.

 

[rsbennett00]

Good to see my profession is so impossible to automate that it's not even on the chart.