Will a robot take your job?

wendell borton

Looks like amazon, not exactly known for being nice to employees, is trying to replace workers with automated robots. But how safe is your current occupation from the machines.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34066941

RobertKK

I'm buying a robot for my farm at the moment. So all it will mean is less work for me and more time for myself, with no cost to my job. In 7 or 8 years, maybe a robotic milker, can't afford one right now.

ancapailldorcha

I read that article earlier. I wonder what the job market will look like when robots become more prevalent.

The Backwards Man

Bogger isn't even on the dropdown menu so it looks like I'm safe for a few more years.

This thread ties in nicely with the Jobbridge thread!

Jhcx

I'd buy one and start using it as an employee. My current job is Customer Service based they need hoomans to shout at. a robot has no emotion nothing will get done so I'm all good

Rabo Karabekian

My current job, I'm at something like 96% risk. Move up a level, and it's something like 50%. Really need to move up that level. And soon!

GLaDOS

8% chance apparently, looks like I'm pretty safe

Mother Brain

ScienceNerd wrote: »

8% chance apparently, looks like I'm pretty safe

Same. Booyah!

The Randy Riverbeast

Under 10% for any roles I could fill.

Im the guy designing and making the robots to replace everyone.

RobertKK

Farming has a 76% likelihood of automation, good, the more automation the better.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

When there's a robot that does the garden, goes fishing, birdwatching, and hiking then washes the widows, my job will be defunct. It will also have to drink copious amounts of coffee and chat to the postman.

Stheno

Jhcx wrote: »

I'd buy one and start using it as an employee. My current job is Customer Service based they need hoomans to shout at. a robot has no emotion nothing will get done so I'm all good

IBM have developed a solution that replaces needing people in call centres

I'm at one per cent risk

PolaroidPizza

I typed in 'politician' and there was no result
looks like we're stuck with incompetent humans for the time being.

The_Valeyard

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

mfceiling

The fact that my Internet "crashed" as I was reading that makes me not worry too much about computers...

keith16

Are there tasks in your job that you repeat?

If so, your job will be taken by a robot.

Meanwhile, have a read of "The Third Industrial Revolution" by Jeremy Rifkin. And if you can't read it now, then you will have plenty of time to read it later when robots have taken your job, family, and everything you hold dear to you.

Vojera

My previous job was 8% risk. My current job is 96% risk.

I've made a terrible mistake.

Niemoj

I'm fine I guess.

I work in HUMAN resources after all.

Eugene Norman

RobertKK wrote: »

Farming has a 76% likelihood of automation, good, the more automation the better.

Of course you wouldn't care since you are self employed and own the farm. If you were hired to work a farm you would.

Alf Veedersane

After watching one hoover a room, they have a long way to go.

Clumsy f**kers.

c_man

mfceiling wrote: »

The fact that my Internet "crashed" as I was reading that makes me not worry too much about computers...

Your internet crashed... Yeah, you should probably be worried :pac:

mackeire

What happens when the robots lose their jobs and have to go on the dole???

c_man

mackeire wrote: »

What happens when the robots lose their jobs and have to go on the dole???

They'll get a 50% dole bonus at Kwanzaa.

whupdedo

I'm at 75 percent risk , but I don't think even a robot would do some of the sh1te jobs I get

Niemoj

Niemoj wrote: »

I'm fine I guess.

I work in HUMAN resources after all.

HR was described as a department that could be replaced by a website by a former colleague of mine.

mattP

I wash cars, the machines could never do as good a job as me;)

biko

I'm the guy that program the robots, so no.

batistuta9

biko wrote: »

I'm the guy that program the robots, so no.

do you really work at that?

The Backwards Man

whupdedo wrote: »

I'm at 75 percent risk , but I don't think even a robot would do some of the sh1te jobs I get

It's like charging fifty euro for fixing a boiler with one slap of a hammer, it's a fiver for the tap, and fortyfive for knowing where to tap.

jimgoose

We are Nerd. All will be assimilated.

Son Of A Vidic

I'm pretty safe, there's a 2% chance that a robot will take my job.:cool:

Teyla Emmagan

1%

It's hard to automate bullsh*t, thankfully.

Overheal

tl;dr if your job is automatible you're ****ed. Be an engineer. MAKE the robots that take OTHER people's jobs.

eviltwin

4%, bugger :mad:

jimgoose

batistuta9 wrote: »

do you really work at that?

He used to. The real Biko skippers a trawler out of Killybegs these days. What you see posting here is actually a very small shell-script.

Rothmans

biko wrote: »

I'm the guy that program the robots, so no.

You won't be so smug when someone programs the robots to program robots!

ygolometsipe

It is the decline of the industrial age.
It also might bring about lots of new jobs but these would be
high skilled.

The future is very hard to predict, I thought this would never be
economically viable, growing lettuces in a high rise building.
It turns out the LEDS are so low in power and they have almost
no waste in fertilizer / water, it might be.
http://www.gereports.com/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-led-lighting-helps-farming

This one is just crazy, a totally synthetic burger :O

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/05/world-first-synthetic-hamburger-mouth-feel
This one gets a lot of attention as cows like to fart which makes the planet
real mad so this is an alternative, also it takes like a bazillion gallons of water to make a cow.

j80ezgvc3p92xu

Well if a robot can lie in bed and stare at the ceiling I guess I will be made redundant.

Baron Kurtz

Hello, Dave. You're looking well today.

Paramite Pie

I'll probably be working in Graphic Design or Web Development (the creative end rather than programming end) so I'm at a low risk. 5% & 21% respectively.

Creative jobs will have the highest human retention rate.

My backup plan is to get around to writing that bloody novel that i've been planning for several years.
Although according to that site, authors/writers are at a 33% risk?? Nonsense.

whatdoicare

Well, this will be just fantastic for rich companies until everyone is unemployed and noone is buying their products and they start losing monies.

Then there will be a huge employment drive for the local computer and robot scrap factory.

Unless, of course, that everything becomes so efficient that we no longer need to earn money and are all just given a quota to spend each week on whatever nonsense is in vogue. The we can live the dream like those guys in the film "Wally".

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

i'm a programmer. computers will never code themselves until we reach the singularity

Nichard Dixon

I'm safe. No need for the wife though, especially with cleaning robots.

I actually think the percentage underestimates some jobs. Take pharmacist for instance, a robot could perform some chemical test to make sure that it was dispensing the right drug and it would have a huge expert system from the best knowledge in the world to identify any possible issues.

Brian from Bray

Feckin robots coming over here taking our dole.

OneArt

The closest thing I could find was some sort of web design (I have to know about a bit about HTML and CSS for my job), and that was 21%. My official title is content manager but at the company I work at it's also translator/copywriter/editor/SEO person.

Years ago my best friend's dad laughed at me for wanting to become a translator. "You do know that computers can do that now, right?"

Yeah, considering the utter fail texts that such programs produce, I'm not too worried about robots taking that part of my job any time soon.

Massimo Cassagrande

Tim Smith55 wrote: »

This would be great for the economy, economic growth would sky rocket.

Yes, because robots shop like mad in their free time...and there's nothing like mass unemployment to boost growth..

You may have the wrong end of the schtick.

kylith

I'm in the process of being replaced by a computer.

Anyone wanna hire me? I only swear sometimes.

kylith

Tim Smith55 wrote: »

With skilled robots, assuming they are economically priced, it improves technology which adds efficiency. Efficiency increases economic growth. Increased efficiency means more people can set up profitable businesses.

Which no-one will be able to patronise because no-one will have any money because their jobs have all been taken over by bloody robots.

The Corinthian

In a related article on the BBC, it seems the oldest profession is also in danger from robotics. Needless to say, there's opposition by a Dr Kathleen Richardson, a 'robot ethicist' at De Montfort University in Leicester:

She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical.

Given that the sex toy market overwhelmingly services women at present, with disembodied plastic, male genitalia, I find it curious how this objectivisation has only become an issue as the future possibility of more men using sex toys has come about.

Antar Bolaeisk

Rothmans wrote: »

You won't be so smug when someone programs the robots to program robots!

Actually, your last job on the day before you're made redundant is to show your robot replacement what you do. It'll learn from you and then ter.. relieve you.

I'm an automation engineer so safe, for now...