"How many Corvettes would you like me to run off for you?"
Posted on 02/07/2016 5:08:16 PM PST by lee martell
We are at the threshold of a society deeply impacted by industrialized robots and AI systems. In a few years, driverless cars may become quite common in America, cutting into the business of human drivers, as with Uber or any Check Cab. Long distance Truck Drivers may be replaced by driverless trucks that never get tired and rarely become confused. Many wealthy people are already obtaining financial planning advice from robotized systems. Our children may be taught by instructional robots that memorize the child's name, face and study habits. My question is where will all these people find work? Will there be 200+ applicants for every Burger King position that has not been assigned to a vending machine?
Will we reach the point many capitalists would abhor, the point at which the government will need to legislate the exact number of percentage of hiring that can only be filled by human beings? Time will tell. Of course, there is always the possibility, that the consuming public itself will begin to see the intrinsic value of individual people, even with our error rates considered. I think eventually, people will begin to examine other reasons for existing besides working. This will be a very hard concept for many Americans to accept. We have been raised to measure our worth by what we produce. It may have to become this way. It may become a new age of altruism and service to others. A rediscovery of what it means to be human.
Maybe robots need to be painted dark, and have limitations for so many robots with an accent etc
They’ll have to or the sex bots won’t have any customers.
Its more a question of finding where we can contribute in a job and employers making the effort to find workers who can contribute. Robots just mean that people doing the right work can contribute more than ever, if we do it right. The transition will be awkward, but mandating non-productive hiring is not the answer.
lol
Bunch of tripe.
The new jobs created will simply replace those that are lost the same as all advances have always done.
Sex bots LOL.
I’ve heard that someone was working on robots which will resemble human females in every possible way if you get my meaning. The implications of that are staggering.......
I don’t know, I might like having a burger made by a robot rather than a thug.
Having robots pick vegetables rather than Mexicans, oh you bet!
Having my Chevrolet made a robot rather than a UAW member; any day of the week.
This is an interesting thought process, but I think the gov’t dole to the gimmedats will bring things to a head much sooner as the ratio of tax-users to tax-payers grows too great.
When robots become so efficient at producing food, manufacturing materials, construction, energy production, etc... the only money you will find will be in a selected virtual reality.
We will have to have black, yellow, and red robots of course. White robot will not be required.
"How many Corvettes would you like me to run off for you?"
100% paint them white, black, brown, yellow and red in exact proportions of the population demographics
Hey! Robots could even become politicians...err...
I think short and medium term the more likely scenarios are that people will either work for the Government or they won’t work at all. Of course, programmers, engineers and maintainers will be needed in droves until even that will be handled by robots and AI computers. Long term however is a diffent matter...The best robots will design and build themselves. Will they become self aware? Will they love and hate, build and war? Which movie/story is the most likely scenario? Matrix, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator?
What’s robotic for “feather-bedding?”
My question is where will all these people find work?
When it all shakes out, probably only 20-40% of the current workforce will actually be employed.
Over-provisioning?
A major Japanese car manufacturer has a manufacturing plant now with 2 human employees.
And 24/7 robots.
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