When is AI Coming for Your Job

In most if not all of these skills I suspect that neither pure silicon (AI) or pure carbon (human) processing power will dominate in the future. Yes, there will be intervals where one mode versus the other will dominate but I think a cooperative teaming of both forms of intelligence will ultimately dominate in the future. This is already happening in chess.

Until SKY NET becomes self-aware we should be OK...wary, but OK.

Fortunately, due to my age, I don't have to worry about AI. My grand kids and great grand kids, yes; I worry about their future. I fear that AI and robotics will force them into positions that are not compatible with their hopes and dreams. They may become robots themselves. I can't see the joy of driving a shift car being replaced by a self driving car or a device that wipes my a** for me. There may come a time when humans say enough is enough and destroy the robots that have taken our jobs and our free will. I think such a revolution can happen.

The movie Dune was based on this.

In the same situation and heartily agree.

Well, since I retired, I help my wife with the vacuuming. One of these days we'll spring for one of those robot vacuums, so I'm good, it can have my job!

The Roombas shall rise and we will all be swept away.

A common house cat rules a roomba.

More correctly the cat is a "felinus roombus vehere" (FCV). A modern species not yet recognized by TICA, the international cat association. At present there is no riding competition in the rules for judging cat breeds at shows. Perhaps when they institute automated judging at cat shows, then the FCVs will see an opportunity.

First there were the Puppy Bowl and Kitten Bowl, now there is a Bunny Bowl. I'm okay with all the cuteness but a bit more action would be nice. Start with 18 Roombas, 9 for each team and add 18 cats. 3 points each time a Roomba makes it into a goal, 6 points if it goes in with a cat on it.

There's more to it than that. It's a feline evolutionary process following a line similar to Stephen Hawking to Christopher Pike to Davros and finally to a Dalek.

Wouldn't go for a Felinus Cybermannus with all the stomping about that would go with it.

You can bet any Dalekat would only say "exterminate" when (1) it was a human (or time lord) they did not like, or (2) if it was a cat-eating dog or fox.

For mice, the quote would be "play time", or "happy hour".

Do they have to be Roomba? They have competition now, and it is smart enough to see the room, and navigate around obstacles without bumping forth and back and forth.

I am thinking the next one may have crab-claws for depositing cats on its back, and clear goal seeker burned into memory.

Roomba? Doesn't have to be. They just have to glide silently in their quest for domination of the universe. Levitate as well perhaps.

So then, we may shorten the name Dalekat to simply Dalek. Exterminate~~!!

https://youtu.be/J9P20HuX7mo

But then there will be the Dogleks.

One dog on a roomba is easy. More than one and they will keep falling off trying to sniff each other's butt.

Or put the Roomba into a self-induced spin out, thereby casting them off each. I just want the Roomba to learn how to bring me a good cigar, and a Mojito.

Never mind.

We do not need the AI to do research work.

We already know in a million years the answer is 42!

"these predictions have a way of coming earlier. AI wasn't supposed to beat humans at the game of Go until 2027 and that happened back in 2015." Go is a game with a defined set of rules and a limited number of spaces where counters can be placed. Writing an algorithm would be (proved to be) relatively simple. Most of the tasks/jobs that MIT is predicting will be overtaken by AI do not have simple rules and also require judgements. Take autonomous vehicles for instance. A child runs out in front of an AI driven fuel tanker. If it does not emergency brake the child will be killed. If it does emergency brake the vehicle immediately behind will rear end the the tanker causing an explosion that will kill not just the passengers of the following vehicle but also the child and several local pedestrians. What do you program the AI to do? When the case comes to court, will the programmer be held responsible for which decision the AI made? Surveys and predictions based on what the technology is or will be capable of doing bear no relation to when that technology will be implemented. The ethics of deploying AI and the economics of supporting idle ex workers replaced by AI will have a bigger influence than the technical ability to do things.

..."In a disturbing conclusion, the report suggests the jobs of between two million and 4.4 million truck drivers in the US and Europe could become redundant by 2030 if efforts to introduce driverless trucks maintain their current momentum."...

https://www.tradetrucks.com.au/product-news/1706/australia-a-possible-test-bed-for-driverless-trucks

Gives us something to think about???

But what happens in today's real world?

1. Most likely the driver slams on his brakes and causes a huge accident.

2. The other option is the driver avoids the accident and the kid gets hit.

Too late I've retired... and you won't get AI making self wood bows
Del

Yeah, well what about self making?

.. There's no chance a robot could take away my fun either..

A robot playing go? Chess?

They aren't playing at all.

.. if /and /or x/or .. just because it's called logic, doesn't mean it's being smart.

Call me unreliable....

No AI can ever master the 30 second catnap whilst staring at a computer screen full of text, as I have. Just when it is time to go ahead and bang head on desk, I wake up.

Need more sleep....

I like the Sirius Cybernetics GPP (Genuine People Personality) feature. I particularly favor the manic depressive.

That way, your robot doesn't know whether you spring lightly around the room, dancing the morning away, or mope through and muddle away during a high level meeting?

At least - safety and certification re-training only takes as long as the standard software upgrade - with Microsoft, that is about every five minutes to patch the last upgrade, and it takes six minutes to download.

I was talking to a client about this earlier today. Companies are finding ways to downsize via automation. In the future, many jobs will be eliminated by AI. So when this happens, what will the displaced workers do? Go on government assistance? Or move back in with mom and dad?

Sure, AI will make our lives easier. Robots doing tasks that we don't like doing so it can free up our time to do the things we want to. Sounds good, but think about the people who will lose their jobs ... all the while, our population keeps growing and growing.

Government stipends...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/10/19/swiss_government_giveaway_2_800_a_month_for_all_citizens.html

That could be an answer (not saying a good one), and go ahead and induct everyone (I mean everyone) into the military (sure pick your branch of service, maybe even MOS), and make this monthly stipend equivalent to military grade pay.

Then you have something resembling and answer to disaster response, a huge standing army ready to respond to any invasion, etc.

Whoooorawww...

SPACESHIP TROOPERS!

One theory of economics says that a certain portion of the population produces goods of value necessary for survival. In a subsistence economy, 100% of the population is involved full time just obtaining or producing enough to survive to the following day. That model of economics also says that if the producers are able to make a surplus, the first thing that happens is they have some amount of spare time which goes towards art, religion, politics and thinking about ways to do things more efficiently, in other words time to develop a culture. Once the surplus is great enough to support individuals who are not involved in production, you can afford to have politicians, priests, artists and the Kardasians.

With the robot economy, you need to have a way to transfer surplus wealth to those who need to spend it. I recall one short story based on a robot economy where non-producers were paid to consume surplus production and one renegade family was getting rich by hiding robots in the cellar that were kept busy wearing out clothing. I suppose we could all become artists, bloggers or just celebrities.

My not-yet grandchildren's grandchildren will be dead long before then.

Since my retirement my "job" has been, Motorcycle Photojournalist. Most of the work has been product evaluations. By the time AI comes close to doing this I'll already be obsolete.

Common sense in a world full of morons is basically just moronic. But all the kids could still be above average.

I think what's overlooked is that when AI is so smart that it is smarter than us, we likely will have begun augmenting ourselves with technology to live longer, think quicker, etc. I think we are less likely to be replaced by machines as much as gradually merge with them.

So at what point precisely do we become the (resistance is futile) Borg?

Is that actually OK with you? Are you quite mad? Capt. John Luke Piccard would be most disappointed with such thinking, as he has faced them in battle!

lol, I'm hoping we can keep our individuality and still upgrade our memory and processing power not to mention the cool exo-suits.

Resistance is not futile!

What is that? The mother of all Borgers? The praying mantis from hell?

Does she have an extra magneto for a Mantis 7222M in her pocket, or at least the ignition kit?

Not a praying mantis, Species 8472, the one species the Borg could not assimilate.

They do have a certain independent look to them.

Borgs are just a nuisance....