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Are Robots Coming for Your Job? Eventually, Yes

22 pointsby sylvainkalacheover 6 years ago

13 comments

blfrover 6 years ago
Hopefully, they will start with the job of writing "robots will take your job" articles because they seem to be exactly the kind of boring task best suited for robots. Rewording McKinsey's content marketing should be possible even today.
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CM30over 6 years ago
Honestly, I think the worries about AI taking jobs are overblown. Will AI get better? Yes. Will some jobs be doable by AI? Yes. May that eventually end up being all jobs? Guess so.<p>But that doesn&#x27;t mean people won&#x27;t be able to find work or make money. I mean, you don&#x27;t have to be the &#x27;best&#x27; at something to get rich off of it, nor to even simply earn a living at it. I mean, think about it. Objectively the majority of products, services and businesses out there now are worse than at least one competitor. If people were always rational about what they were buying, said businesses&#x2F;products&#x2F;services would go broke.<p>But they&#x27;re not rational. People buy things and use products because of many things, whether that&#x27;s convenience, location, price, name recognition&#x2F;branding, marketing, word of mouth type marketing, social proof, quality of service&#x2F;employees&#x2F;whatever, pure luck or heck, without even thinking at all.<p>So even if every market in existence gets AI involved in, it still won&#x27;t necessarily mean old fashioned human run businesses can&#x27;t compete and win customers.<p>There&#x27;s also the additional effect of branding that people never really think about here too. People don&#x27;t just watch &#x27;a&#x27; TV show or film or what not, they watch Star Wars or Game of Thrones or what not. Same with music, games, books, art, internet media and basically anything celebrity related in general. Eventually, the greats sell on their name alone, and that&#x27;s one barrier that even the best use of AI may not compete with. Just look at a popular book for example, in some cases the author&#x27;s name is literally more than double the size of the title!<p>So that may also be another area where robots won&#x27;t eventually come for jobs&#x2F;take all the jobs. Perhaps we&#x27;ll end up in a world where the &#x27;Patreon&#x27; style model is the norm and the standards for success are how well you market your own brand rather than the exact quality of what you do...
EB66over 6 years ago
Is it just me or did the article not offer much in the way of how or why said robots would take our jobs?<p>The article only seemed to say that it would happen eventually and, as a result, the labor force of the future will require more software engineering skills.
subjectHaroldover 6 years ago
Maybe I am just an idiot...but I don&#x27;t understand what the fuss is. Through 1870-90, the economy went through a similar phase and the world didn&#x27;t end...and this was with no unemployment protection. If anything that period was more severe than anything that can happen next: productivity in some industries went up more than ten times pretty much overnight (cigarette production is the archetypal example).<p>The only thing that doesn&#x27;t appear to function well now is education, which appears to be stuck in the post-WW2 mentality of a job for life and which the author does identify as a problem. That doesn&#x27;t seem like a particularly big deal however (at least half of the problem is convincing people that they need to keep learning).<p>The real concern for me is people constantly predicting the end of the world. Politicians are taking it seriously and they will inevitably fuck it up. Also, the world that journalists seem to live in has pretty much never existed. The only reason a &quot;job for life&quot; occurred after WW2 was because of the huge barriers on trade&#x2F;capital that were put in place around this period. No competition, high prices...yes, the true glory days.
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barbecue_sauceover 6 years ago
What is the intended effect of articles like this? Motivate people to work harder a la John Henry? Motivate people to learn technical skills despite the negative net job creation of automation? Would having a more widely educated workforce even help?
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droidist2over 6 years ago
I wonder when this will become a major issue in a US presidential election. Also I wonder what the major parties&#x27; stances will be on how to deal with the effects of automation.
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jl6over 6 years ago
When a job disappears due to automation, it’s bad for the person losing their job, but it seems to be good for everybody else.<p>Is this always the case? Is there a tipping point where automation becomes <i>not</i> good for everyone else?
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b3lvedereover 6 years ago
I wonder if the saboteur will also make a comeback then.
dev_dullover 6 years ago
It’s almost the end of 2018 — have you raised alarms bells yet for this years most hyped tech bogeymen?<p>- deepface will change laws.<p>- killing robots.<p>- blockchains will make X obsolete.<p>- AI will take your job.<p>Am I missing something?
3minus1over 6 years ago
I see a lot of news stories and anecdotes about automation via robots. Are there any statistics that describe this trend?
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skrebbelover 6 years ago
tl;dr:<p>(Not a typo, it&#x27;s just that if you summarize this article, there&#x27;s nothing left. No point, no insight, no argument, just some rambling, a submarine, and some links to other headlines)
cyc116over 6 years ago
Are Robots Coming for Your Job? Eventually, Yes<p>Is The Bull Market Coming to an End? Eventually, Yes<p>Does my cat like Sushi rolls? Eventually, Yes<p>Does Titles like these bother You? Eventually, Yes
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Timmahover 6 years ago
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that &quot;coming for your jobs &quot; is completely overblown and no different than automation throughout the previous decades.<p>Isn&#x27;t there a separate shadow issue of lack of diversity in the market? I mean, we can&#x27;t all be app developers, web designers, and project managers.<p>Sure, you say, there will always be non-tech jobs. Ok, like lawyers? That will be decimated by strong AI-as-a-service eDisocvery and legal analysis bots that replace paralegals and associates. So now the firm is a partner or two, and a $14&#x2F;hr runner who drives to court and files motions.<p>Doctors? Ok they read their FDA-certified AI and make sure it&#x27;s sane and send you to the ePharmacy where biometric auth and videos replace the pharmacist.<p>The cleaning staff at both offices are replaced by smart-bots that auto mop and empty trash. So each building has a security&#x2F;facilities person.<p>Restaurants? Most have kiosks and a chef-bot. Just a hostess and manager to make sure the fryer doesn&#x27;t burn the building down. Uber has long been automated.<p>So again, what&#x27;s left? Government jobs most likely. And going back to my original supposition, let&#x27;s ignore how people make their money. Can we all be &quot;data scientists&quot; using AI to analyze customer behavior at restaurant kiosks to apply predictive suggestions for their dessert? Can we all write websites for the small businesses (that don&#x27;t exist because they can&#x27;t afford the AI services that BigCorp has)? What happens when Google computes every last datapoint about us? Facebook has reached complete saturation and there&#x27;s no new info to sell to advertisers. How would our economy function if there&#x27;s basically one industry left? You can&#x27;t compute analytics about yourself or sell website services to website service people.
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