Will A.I. Artificial Intelligence take your job?
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Even in China, the land of the low-paid factory worker, robots are quietly taking over from their human counterparts. China has now overtaken Japan for having more robots than anywhere else in the world. The Chinese government is concerned about an ageing population and the rising cost of human labour making Chinese products less competitive. It is giving over $100 Billion in subsidies for companies to replace more human workers with robots. It's hoped that the workers that will no longer work in the factories will move to the growing service sector, in part to help look after the ageing population. Countries In the west have already lost large numbers of manufacturing jobs to china but we shouldn’t get too smug about our white-collar jobs in high tech, administration, clerical and production being safe from A.I. systems in the future. A report from the Bank of England has warned that up to 50% of the workforce in the UK and US could be at risk of been replaced by Artificial Intelligence of some form over the next 10 to 20 years. Even highly skilled jobs such as doctors and lawyers are at risk as A.I. becomes increasing sophisticated. IBM’s Watson, the A.I computer that beat the human champions at Jeopardy in 2011 is one such system. In research carried out by the University of North Carolina School of Medicine using IBM’s Watson Artificial Intelligence system, it was found that in a test based on 1000 cancer diagnoses, Watson recommended the same treatment as highly trained oncologists 99% of the time. In fact, due to Watsons ability to read and digest thousands of documents in minutes and have access to all the latest research papers and clinical trials, it found treatment options for 30% of the cases that were missed by the human doctors. Whilst this seen as a helper for Doctors now, in the future these types of systems will be taking up more and more of the work that a human would take many years to train for. Not to mention that it works 24/7 365 days a year, doesn’t get ill, take holidays or complain about the stress and workload. It’s predicted that the first wave of this new A.I. will have the biggest impact on sectors like transportation, logistics, office administration and labour in production In transport now, there is at least one human per vehicle, be that large articulated lorries, trucks, taxis, limos, trains etc. These will be some of the jobs which will be taken by autonomous vehicles. Human drivers are prone to stress, tiredness and distraction and often limited by law to a maximum number of hours per day they can drive, this is not the case for autonomous vehicles, they can drive all day and night so the efficiencies in using such systems will be something that companies will be keenly looking into, after all a parked up truck makes no money. Trials are already taking place with driverless cars on public roads and on October 20th, 2016 a self-driving truck developed by the Uber owned startup Otto, made the first autonomous commercial delivery of 2000 cases of Budweiser over a 120 mile about 200Km journey across Colorado. Elsewhere, eBay has just bought up the computer-vision company, Corrigon. The A.I. here is recognising and understanding images and then categorising them, something that would normally take a human to do. Ebay are also using A.I. to settle buyer & seller disputes at the rate of 60 million a year and similar technology is being used in the Netherlands, England and Canada to handle divorces, landlord-tenant disputes, and other legal conflicts, without hiring lawyers or going to court. Another example could blend the speech recognition of Apples Siri virtual assistant with IBM’s Watson. This could replace call centres with intelligent, question-answering, automated systems that would more effective and cut out the human in the same way as we have grown accustomed the automated phone systems, although hopefully a whole lot better and less annoying. New technologies have changed industries for hundreds of years and we have adapted and moved on and in the great number of cases, it’s created more jobs. A.I technologies may not be taking over tomorrow but it is a creeping, inexorable change that will come as companies and governments strive for ever increasing efficiencies in the face competition and money saving. The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted decades ago that there would be a period of technological unemployment as society finds new ways of making labour more efficient, faster than the displaced jobs can be taken up elsewhere. There is no economic law that says there will always be a job created in other sectors for those who lose theirs to new technology. Hand Balance Redux by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100370 Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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I think its worth making a video of proposed societies in this type of future. If the technological advancement accedes world population its boils down to a real unemployment future. if we take the entire transportation industry, including air and water. We cut out a lot of jobs! plus 10 20 more years the world population is 20% higher and unemployed is thru the roof. someone need to start asking the question what type of economy are we in? labor? or robotic? and how are people getting what they want?
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This has been going on since the steam engine........
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Jokes on them, I don't have a job.
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It's happening. Can't be stopped. -
"Computer says no". But....but..."COMPUTER SAYS NO". What a total nightmare. Artificial intelligence has been demonstrated to be a complete disaster when it is used for interaction with sentient beings. It is fine when cutting metal, displaying info on an aircraft gauge, or doing menial tasks that no-one else wants to do, but it has proved utterly useless when taking on decisions that require an understanding of an enormous range of often subtle perception of human needs or requirements. It cannot predict and it cannot discern between two alternatives that contain the slightest nuances beyond a yes or no enquiry for each discreet subject, and even worse when combining the result of several similar transactions that require an overall conclusion.
The menu systems of automatic call centres are by themselves a demonstration of how unable these paradigms are to function viably. Human interactions on even a very simple level require the understanding of the possible permutations of thousands of layered outcomes in just a basic conversation. Ai programming simply cannot cope with that enormous variation. Even dealing with REAL people who offer limited choices is bad enough. Imagine dealing with a robot that is trying to grasp the complexities of a social problem that goes beyond a simple binary choice.
Leave AI to drilling holes, making machines and aiding navigation or doing calculations. It is never going to be a substitute for emotionally charged interactions, philosophical decisions or social interactions that affect real people. The nuances of human discourse are far too subtle to be consigned to AI control. The promise is that with increasing sophistication this can be overcome. It cannot. The human mind can be trumped when calculating data but that is as far as it goes. We are light years behind the hyperbolic claims by the AI lobby. -
How long until YouTube videos are made by robots?
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ey ayy the future that seems bright
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so it's getting time for unconditional basic income ore get ride of mony.
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Of course. Oxbridge investigated that quite a majority of white collar, service jobs, admin will be annihilated. And of course. We always knew.
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Too late... socialism has already come for most of the eliminated jobs. Government minimum wages and the welfare state disincentive people from working and incentive them to collapse. Technology increases productivity and standards of living as it causes people to shift into different productive roles.
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I am so excited by AI getting more and more powerful. I see what is given to Humans though Ai, is like the gods giving special abilities to Humans.
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first we replaced horses and steers with machines and now we replace ourselves with machines. It's going to be ok though all those redundant horses got new better jobs...didn't they?
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Can't wait for the technology to replace money.
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The special role of ai robot is to mimic our self our spirit and not to replace us in all matters their mission is guide us in the place that is very dangerous to humans like space galaxies we must hurry the mission before Christ will back in 1st coming to resurrect the saints they very powerful in the level of true SuperSaiyan they can remove mountains no one can stop them even nuclear bombs they will not allowed to escape anyone in this planet they will force all to follow the covenant bible in the end they will destroy the earth to prepare all humans in Judgment day.
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@4:45 windows xp
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Question is when will google just get bots to make its own vids. No doubt my home AI will recommend them to me and tell me about the ones I miss
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Curious droid and team: Another great job
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Do you think A.I. will ever be able to make new music?
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Don't worry people. In my country we have three levels of government, one completely superfluous. If we face mass unemployment we can just add a 4th.
Maybe that is the future for us all, working for a buearocracy that managers buearocracys. -
Well once my job is replaced by AI, the whole world will be replaced by AI
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