For a moment, I misread the type of jobs the humanoid robots are coming for.
Posted on 09/11/2023 1:39:58 AM PDT by spirited irish
Now if we can teach them to make breakfast burritos and tacos, we may be able to start sending the illegal alien invaders home.
Robots have been used in warehouses for over 60 years. This is hardly a new development.
The robot does not take 15 minute breaks. It does not take lunch or sick days. The Robot’s kids don’t need to be dropped off at school. It is not late for work in a snow storm. It does not take off 2-4 weeks/year for vacation. It can work at 3am and does not get tired. Its productivity is the same on first shift, second shift or third shift.
Three “techs” can take care of hundreds of robots.
The “techs” also do not work for your company. They are contract workers that work for the robot manufacturer. They don’t get benefits from our company.
I don't think anyone can really imagine what is going to happen.
As an aside, I knew some folks back in the mid-1970s who were working in a huge automotive assembly plant that had robots in their warehouse and parts staging areas. Many men refused to work with the robots. A man had been killed (crushed) by a robot and men considered them evil.
Those particular robots were just fancy forklifts with some limited computer abilities.
You can imagine what the reaction will be to an AI-powered forklift.
Yet.;-)
This SHOULD send a message to unions.
The SEIU pushed for non-union fast food workers to get $15 an hour. When the average wage went up to $12 an hour franchises installed self-serve ordering/payment kiosks. At $15 robotic food prep becomes cost effective.
The unions are about to help the workforce to the point where burger joints will have 1 or 2 employees per shift overseeing automated operations.
Robots also don’t have sexual relations with other robots causing harassment lawsuits.
Robots also do not file lawsuits against your company because they got cancer from working in your factory.
You also don’t have to worry about calling the robot the wrong PRONOUN.
IF a robot gets injured on the job, you just bolt on another appendage. You do not have to shut down because of the visit from OSHA.
Kickbacks and stock prices (”We’re AI capable!” should be good for a 10% boost, enough for the CEO to buy his third mistress her second vacation home.)
Going back at least ten years ago I was following agricultural news out of UC Davis (IIRC) where a test plot was being handled robotically from tiling, planting, weeding, spraying and harvesting.
Only humans involved were the guys managing the robots, a supervisor/scientist and I think someone to run out for coffee and bear claws or something.
This looks promising. There ARE robotic nut,apple and other fruit picking machines in the world now, it’s just a matter of time before the excuse of “well WHO will pick our fruit and vegetables, dErP!” from libtards will be an anachronism.
Robotic housekeepers (to keep the liberals happy we can paint them black, like little Lawn Jockeys) and gardeners (probably still Japanese) are in the near future, I’m sure... just as soon as we have flying cars.
I’m coaching a group of teens to build and program robots for a competition. I had to learn all of this stuff myself over the summer. They use sensors and programming to recognize objects and manipulate things in the arena.
We were given a gift of one of those Roomba vaccum cleaners a few years back....
What they don’t tell you is what happens when a chow chow is in the house.
First the dog starts stalking the thing and howling at it....then he gets a little braver and starts pawing at it...
He never did knock it over but he kept following it everywhere shedding his fur all around it until the robot finally choked on dog fur.
We kept the chow chow and threw the Roomba in the trash.
;-)
The one company making the most advances seems to be Boston Dynamics.
I was watching a 2017 episode of Ancient Aliens on robotics and the university lab models looked like beginners stuff, home project kits anyone can buy now compared to the latest from BD.
I’m sure there are other companies competing - Elon Musk has a project for one but so far it’s all imaginary, I haven’t seen anything with real hardware out of the lab yet.
Look up the latest from BD on Youtube. Another couple years and I really believe the kind of robot-infested future depicted somewhat in the film “I, Robot‘ will be with us.
Autonomous robotic housekeepers, car washing, groundskeeping, gardening, farming, climbing towers, firefighters, dog walkers, sex workers (yes, that’s being done very primitively NOW), trash/garbage pickup, street cleaning, median mowing on highways, all manner of boring, repetetive, dangerous jobs done by robots connected to a mainframe AI somewhere as “overseer.”
Democrats whine about “who’s going to do all the MENIAL jobs if we stop illegal aliens from coming into the country?”
They do so miss their slaves. Well, Robotics solves that doesn’t it?
Man crushed to death by robot in South Korea
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67354709
Amazon trials humanoid robots to ‘free up’ staff
Published https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67163680
19 October
They will just simplify process so that complex jobs can be turned over to AI. It may not eliminate every job, but it will eliminate a lot of jobs.
There is only so far one can take the idea about new jobs being created when every computer or AI system replaces hundreds of jobs in each industry.
I have an ongoing discussion with a judge friend of mine about how AI is beginning to make inroads into the legal community. My estimate is that in about ten years, lawyers and judges will have AI in both advisory and supervisory capacities to make their work faster, more efficient, and to keep them honest.
If this was Heaven or eternity, I would have no problem with the concept of UBI and any other support. I wouldn’t have a problem with full-on socialism, because those running the system would not be using it for agendas.
In this life, I cannot bear the thought of being paid UBI, because it will be a choice between supporting animosity towards God or starvation.
It’s also a great way to demand that everybody live like a secular liberal and support everything that is secular liberalism, or else.
For a moment, I misread the type of jobs the humanoid robots are coming for.
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