Robots will take our jobs

Andrew McAfee, a director at MIT speaks about this quite a bit. Very interesting. He's here at a TED talk giving an overview. Yes, but don't worry is the crux of his argument.

I just hope when i get hooked up to the Marix it's the one that lets me learn kung-fu.

The Antigay wrote: »

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???

It's a bit off yet. Even if they build a robot that could physically move like a human building in human intuition which is what our big advantage is is much more difficult.

Mr. G wrote: »

For instance, if my passport application in the passport office in Cork gets lost, I don't want to speak to a robot.

The use of controlled robots in key-hole surgery I approve of.

You don't trust a robot to file your passport papers correctly but you do trust them to open you up? Robots would be ideal for managing the kind of paper work that takes place at passport office, they wouldn't get bored, they'd have a personal record of what they did, you could monitor what they do and make improvements at a national level. Doctors need to have experience and can make jumps of logic that computers can't. If a computer ran into a problem during your surgery it could freeze, or worse, it could could chose the wrong pre-programed procedure to attempt to fix the mistake.

Where they replace workers in ordinary jobs, that's a no no. Just no.

Why? Robots are ideal for mundane work. We have companies that pay it's CEO €5,000 a week and a guy sweeping the floors on €300 but they're essentially the same machine. It's like using a tractor to do everything from working the fields to bringing sick people to the hospital.

There would not be as much to do. You can get bored pretty quickly after a few years out of a job.

There's plenty people could be doing if free from mundane jobs that serve no purpose. We have people manufacturing useless and erelivant products to fill up a market place. Our need for everyone to have a job means we're producing so much pointless crap.

I prefer it the way it is. That's my 2c anyway

It's hard to say that when you don't know what it would really be like.

I hear they use foreign robots too.

There ,ll be a man and a robot dog.
AT this rate there, will be few people left working in factorys,
so who,, will have money to buy the big corporation,s products.
we have big companys like ibm, nbc, hiring interns,
zero hours contracts ,
Workers are losing rights, jobs, while big corporations work on devices to automate work,
make more advanced ,robots, to reduce no of workers needed.
ITS worse in the usa where students are borrowing 100k to get a degree for a job that may not exist .

maybe in 20 years , with gps, driverless cars, busdrivers, will be replaced by
automated bus, s.
There,ll be robots making robots ,to make consumer goods.
Look at netflix etc itunes, etc the idea of going to a shop to buy, rent videos, music , may seem quaint in 10 years.
Maybe consoles, game shops wont exist in ten years,
you,ll be able to buy any game as a digital download to play on a pc ,
with a sony or xbox os on it.