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An autonomous truck fleet for one employer will eliminate, say, 600 jobs, 500 drivers, along with a few police, EMTs, insurance sales and adjusters, highway maintenance that no longer has to fix guardrails etc. After accidents. It will create maybe 30 jobs for mechanics (if robots don't do that too), coders at the company, and so on. At no point in the last 140 years has a computer been smart enough to truly replace a person. I coded a waypoint path into my drone the other day so that it could take perfect cinematic shots of a dealership while I was inside talking to the staff. It's not hard to see a future in 10 years where I send a $40,000 drone to work at 6 AM and stay home reading. Shit, if the software wasn't so finicky I could probably do that now.
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All wasting human capital.<br />
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From the article...“Machines will take on more repetitive and laborious tasks, but seem no closer to eliminating the need for human labour than at any time in the last 150 years.”<br />
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I disagree with this completely. We have already seen "bots" take over increasingly "creative" roles, like writing articles for AP.<br />
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"...The obvious tell doesn't come until the end of an article: "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=apple+%22this+story+was+generated+by+Automated+Insights%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#rls=en&tbm=nws&q=%22This+story+was+generated+by+Automated+Insights%22" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener"><u>This story was generated by Automated Insights</u></a>." According to AI's public relations manager James Kotecki, the Wordsmith platform generates millions of articles per week; other partners include Allstate, Comcast, and Yahoo, whose fantasy football reports are automated. Kotecki estimates the company's system can produce 2,000 articles per second if need be."<br />
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Machines replaced physical labor. Machines are replacing creative labor. What other kind of labor is there left, save for irrational human desires to see humans in certain positions of trust (for example, a "train operator" for an autonomous train, because humans feel better with another human "in charge")?<br />
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I don't think it's crazy to question the notion that "well, there were a bunch of jobs created after the industrial revolution, so therefore we will see new jobs (for humans) post computing revolution."
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And lmfao @ "replaced physical labor" Notsureifsrs because I never see humans doing any manual labor, stores are cleaned by robots, buildings are built by robots and all the humans sit around twiddling their thumbs.<br />
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And yes one fantasy football article written by AI=GAME OVER MAN!<br />
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Of course not, it's the end of the world as we know it. In the same way printing presses were the devil, cars were the devil and planes were the devil (printing presses putting scribes out of business, cars putting horse backed carriages out of business and planes putting ships out of business....although those jobs still exist in some capacity today), but yes you're right jobs will forever disappear and what will we do then when everything is so cheap, so plentiful and able to be done by AI???<br />
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I shudder at that thought.<br />
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