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The bit about the newspapers is what made me want to make this thread.

How many of you guys are looking towards robot induced redundancy?

Damn robots, taking all our jobs....

Time to invest more in my mongolian elk farmer retirement fund. Pretty sure I already have enough for the yurt !

Maybe door-to-door salesmen will make a comeback;
rainproof, insultproof & able to demonstrate their own dust-busting capacity.

Lots of jobs for them to do, currently dangerous for humans:
cleaning out tanks, inspecting sewers, mining, lifting corpulent patients, high-rise construction etc.
with humans then having choice as to how they'll risk their lives.

Robot Manager could be a lucrative field.

mks wrote:Robot Overseer could be a lucrative field.

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mks wrote:Robot Manager could be a lucrative field.

A robot could do it tbf.

No way man.

It takes special skills to manage dem robots...

mks wrote:It takes special skills to manage dem robots...

Such as?
It's looking more and more that if something can be described, it can be programmed.

Well as long as we don't have robots programming robots...

Wait.

You give them the key, and they'll take the car.

Shit.

jesslem wrote:

mks wrote:It takes special skills to manage dem robots...

Such as?
It's looking more and more that if something can be described, it can be programmed.

//Haven't watched the video, at work but based purely on the quote.//


Eventually you'll have to have a human involved.

A manager robot to repair the grunt bots.

Who repairs the manager bot when it needs repairing?



Robots, in a way already control most of our IT infrastructure up until the point where its safer and more efficient to get a human with experience of dealing with issues what arise.

For instance systems will have a fail over (when one goes down, the second one will take over till the first is repaired and set as primary again) so theoretically the only time a human has to be involved is when both are non-operational . Inefficient but theoretically plausible.

Technically you could write scripts which find what messed it up and run through fixes based off error triggers but what if its more than just what it appears to be? What errors take priority? Sometimes you'll have to fix 'C' before you fix 'A' because then it'll break 'N'.

There is WAY to many factors to programme, when a human can fix it in less time and get paid a yearly salary for 3+ years at a company than it'll cost/take to create a system which is 100% automated and maintained by itself.


This is just in terms of server management.

Imagine a fucking robot?


Sure, small scale its fine but if we're talking corporate and armies of drones - I can just see them doing jobs deemed to dangerous for humans but still have an industry.

The crux would be if they'd be training the workers to control the bots or not. There is where ethics come into it.

a bit depressing lol

legend4ry wrote:

jesslem wrote:

mks wrote:It takes special skills to manage dem robots...

Such as?
It's looking more and more that if something can be described, it can be programmed.

//Haven't watched the video, at work but based purely on the quote.//


Eventually you'll have to have a human involved.

A manager robot to repair the grunt bots.

Who repairs the manager bot when it needs repairing?

Watch the video tbh, if not, this clip is shorter and answers the question quite well.


For the americansinsciencevideo-phobes, or if you just want a shorter clip, click here.

when i go to the supermarket i like using those self checkout mahines, if it makes human cashiers redundant then who needs them

Hypefiend wrote:when i go to the supermarket i like using those self checkout mahines, if it makes human cashiers redundant then who needs them

They're slow but waste customers' time not the supermarket's and don't even need a poor sod on minimum wage

$$$$$

.lol