Robots will take our jobs

The Antigay · 19-03-2014 10:08PM #1

I can't believe no-one's talking about this here. Bill Gates has predicted that many workers will be replaced by software and robots over the next few decades.

This could be the beginning of a new age in which all the labour needed to run civilisation is done by machines and the government provides us all with a basic income leaving us free to pursue our interests like in Star Trek or something. Or it could lead to a new era of mass unemployment and people struggling to survive. Let's hope politicians make the right decisions and adapt our economy before too many people suffer.

http://bgr.com/2014/03/14/bill-gates-interview-robots/

darkpagandeath · 19-03-2014 10:10PM

The Antigay wrote: »

I can't believe no-one's talking about this here. Bill Gates has predicted that many workers will be replaced by software and robots over the next few decades.

This could be the beginning of a new age in which all the labour needed to run civilisation is done by machines and the government provides us all with a basic income leaving us free to pursue our interests like in Star Trek or something. Or it could lead to a new era of mass unemployment and people struggling to survive. Let's hope politicians make the right decisions and adapt our economy before too many people suffer.

http://bgr.com/2014/03/14/bill-gates-interview-robots/

Sure if that decision lines their own pockets and their golden circle with cash.

Birneybau · 19-03-2014 10:10PM

What if they make robot politicians?!?!

The Antigay · 19-03-2014 10:13PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Sure if that decision lines their own pockets and their golden circle with cash.

Greed might become a thing of the past.

Banjo String · 19-03-2014 10:14PM

So I can sit on my hairy backside on a Monday morning, drinking coke and eating donuts and chips watching telly while C3P0 does my 9-5 job?

There's a problem here how?

Stavros Murphy · 19-03-2014 10:14PM

They can have it. Here's me shovel, If ye need me, I'll be on the beach.

Sulla Felix · 19-03-2014 10:14PM

They can fscking have mine.

Birneybau · 19-03-2014 10:15PM

Banjo String wrote: »

So I can sit on my hairy backside on a Monday morning, drinking coke and eating donuts and chips watching telly while C3P0 does my 9-5 job?

There's a problem here how?

You work in the protocol sector?

Well, you won't be paid for his work...

Banjo String · 19-03-2014 10:16PM

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

They can have it. Here's me shovel, If ye need me, I'll be on the beach.

Dont forget it if you want to go to work. :pac:

Banjo String · 19-03-2014 10:17PM

Birneybau wrote: »

You work in the protocol sector?

Well, you won't be paid for his work...

I will. I'm gonna be a lord of the robots kinda Slave master.

Donkey Oaty · 19-03-2014 10:17PM

Can't remember which futurologist said it or the exact wording, but it was something like this:

We wanted flying cars by now, and instead they gave us 140 characters.

123balltv · 19-03-2014 10:17PM

Bloody robots Joe I got served by one the other day very rude

Why did the robot go back to robot school?
Granny: Tell me.
Joe: Because his skills were getting a little rusty!

Starscream25 · 19-03-2014 10:19PM

I for one will welcome our new robotic overlords

The Antigay · 19-03-2014 10:20PM

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Can't remember which futurologist said it or the exact wording, but it was something like this:

The thing is that we will eventually have flying cars and it's looking like we're getting close now.

sillyoulfool · 19-03-2014 10:20PM

I suppose they will be forrin robots, dey tuk r jobs!:rolleyes:

Birneybau · 19-03-2014 10:21PM

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Can't remember which futurologist said it or the exact wording, but it was something like this:

But WHAT characters!

Starscream25 · 19-03-2014 10:21PM

The Antigay wrote: »

The thing is that we will eventually have flying cars and it's looking like we're getting close now.

Lol

Slutmonkey57b · 19-03-2014 10:21PM

What jobs?

The Antigay · 19-03-2014 10:22PM

Starscream25 wrote: »

Lol

The metaphor went right over your head LOL.

yawhat! · 19-03-2014 10:25PM

zenno · 19-03-2014 10:31PM

Now that would be a dream come through. The robots can all plod off to jobsbridge or TUS, and we can live happily ever after in peace.

1 pint of Guinness there please mister robot, thanks.

Soon. It's coming soon I hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4ZPvr6ry4

doolox · 19-03-2014 10:31PM

There will probably be a greater emphasis on personal services, entertainments etc.
Initially the conditions of employment in these will be substandard, some very substandard until people organise and fight back in some yet unknown way but eventually most people will be sorted out into a way of life and living we cannot imagine today.
The era of the standard 40hr week,48 week year and 40 yr employment with one sector or one boss is long gone.

People will have to have several jobs and maybe even several concurrent engagements with several different bosses in order to make a decent living.

Pensions, health insurance etc will become a thing of the past unless enforced and handled by the state. People may not be able to earn enough money to supply them out of their own resources and may have to work in some part-time capacity until or very near death. The days of a long term retirement
and high wages for the middle class as we knew it are over. People will either be very rich or relatively poor.

The Antigay · 19-03-2014 10:39PM

doolox wrote: »

People will move to where they are needed.

But eventually there won't be enough places that need people any more. When most of the work to run society is done by machines what will people do to earn a living? The economic system will have to change into something very different to what it is now. Instead of having to fight to acquire money to survive the government could provide everyone with a basic guaranteed income and anything you manage to earn on top of that will be a bonus.

Basically, we could all become welfare recipients of the wealth created by the machines.

ScumLord · 19-03-2014 10:40PM

Robots are expensive and difficult to make do what you want to do. It can take years to develop a robotic system, which is a factory floor full of machines programed to perform specific actions.

Robots still need us to build them and tell them what to do and correct them when they go wrong (which is often a lot). They need constant maintenance from humans, if they go off by a thousands of a millimeter in one place they can ruin an entire production run without any clue that their even doing something wrong.

Then of course once you have your robotic factory setup if anything changes you have to start at square one designing a new system.

Robots have their place but they're no replacement for a human. Humans are still the most advanced machine on the factory floor. Really it's a waste of resources having them do work a robot can do more than a travesty that they lose their mundane jobs to a robot.

kneemos · 19-03-2014 10:42PM

Going on about this since the sixties.Still not a robot worth a Shoite.

The Antigay · 19-03-2014 10:44PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Robots are expensive and difficult to make do what you want to do...

No, no, no. It might not be long before robots can do most of the things people can do and much more cheaply too. So what are we to do with the millions of unemployed they create???

Stavros Murphy · 19-03-2014 10:44PM

I'll be the lad in the grubby overalls, in to service the robot...I smell dorrar..

shruikan2553 · 19-03-2014 10:48PM

As an engineer I approve. I wonder how much one can be paid for taking care of the robots.

secman · 19-03-2014 10:49PM

Hope the one replacing me is a good looking
Ride

The Backwards Man · 19-03-2014 10:49PM

Bring it on, Johnny5.

Lando Griffin · 19-03-2014 10:49PM

If they make a Robot that can go collect my dole, a 6 pack of Dutchie and put a tenner on the GGs leaving me free to lye in bed a little later then how can that be bad?

Robots will take our jobs

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