That's how I lost my job.
Happily retired now.

 

I'm retired, but I worked as a case manager for people with disabilities. I am guessing by 2563 they will be able to prevent/correct these disabilities before they can develop case management robot.

 

I was replaced by a robot that runs on AA batteries.

 

AA batteries? Not even C-cells? Man, that's just cold.

 

I’m in the army. No real fear of being replaced by a robot.

 

Wanna bet. No scrambled eggs so this is a ground pounder.

 

But seriously, the threat of automation is greatest where the work/task to be done is predictable and repetitive. My brother in law worked in industrial robotics for GE/Siemens for a bit. As he pointed out to me, industrial robots are great if you hand them a formatted structured rack of pre-formatted parts to install on an assembly line. You can't hand them a bucket of bolts and expect them to identify which are in the desired orientation and which aren't, pick one out, rotate it to the desired orientation and install it. So if your work requires judgment or changes form constantly, it is in much less danger of automation, whether from something mechanical, or from a software replacement.

Of course, that is entirely separate from whether management, or whomever they contract with, properly/realistically assesses just how much judgment or predictability your job actually has. I read recently that some supermarkets are abandoning the self-checkout because they were encountering just too many problems. The premise behind self-checkout was that everything has a bar code, bar codes can be scanned, and all the checkout clerk really does is scan things and provide change, so why couldn't a machine do that. But that tends to underestimate the diversity of packaging, the gradual shift to less scannable forms of packaging, and the inevitable difficulties in reliably successful scanning of credit and debit cards. Self-checkouts regularly require assistance, and the question arises as to whether it processes as many customers per hour as a good checkout clerk does.

None of that is to suggest that no jobs are threatened by automation, and does not necessarily lead to companies that thought automation would save them gobs of money admitting that it might have blown up in their face and would have been better off with real live humans, but it may not be the tsunami that some have predicted.

Finally, mechanical robots break and software gets hacked or develops bugs, so there will always be a need for someone to take care of the technology that eradicated one kind of job but created another. When gramophones and records reduced the need for live musicians, they created work for folks to produce records, distribute them, sell them, and manufacture and repair gramophones. Self-tending technology does not exist.

 

 

Now I realize that this is supposed to be a serious thread, (cough, cough) but I've just spent the better part of an hour playing phone tag with a computer generated voice with crappy music. God bless the Alberta Gov't.

 

Lemme ask you, did you feel that "your call was important to them"?

What I want to hear one day is an automated system that begins by asking you your first name, and then when they play the hold music, it's James Brown singing "Please, please please", but they insert your recorded name into the file, so that he sings "Mark, please don't go". THEN I might believe my call was important to them.

 

My call was important to Me. Only to find out that the person I have to speak to will be on holidays until the 3rd of April.

 

Who ever thought we would have robot vacuum cleaners 50 years ago? Now, every appliance store/department have them.

 

I remember when the youngest kid was the tv remote to change the channels.....all 4 of them. Now there is this....

 

As I retired, I could be already replaced... LOL !!!

Back in the seventies, James Taylor predicted that the incoming computer era would not cut any job ! It would force to upgrade workers knowledge and ability so they would run the computers. When we see the fiasco of the Zenith pay system...

I read a review about autodriving today : They do not work all the same, so the bottom line is "use these with caution".

I find it curious that automobile industry has been using chains for decades but still have workers at almost every station...

Last week "open AI" said they would not release text writing AI : this week a guy explained these are based on statistical analysis of existing texts and though you write the beginning of the text, you can in no way predict which way the robot will go as it could even write to the reverse ideas you were aiming at !

So, I do not believe I will ever be driven or nursed by a robot.

 

https://gizmodo.com/fda-says-its-ok-to-have-robot-doctors-5978614
Back in the late 60's and early 70's you punched holes in cards for computers.

 

Worth noting that the doctor is not being replaced by that device. What it provides is the ability for a doctor to examine a patient remotely. Not much different than robotic surgery which allows an actual surgeon to direct a machine in locations that might be hard to get to or require more precise movements that human hands can provide.

Once upon a time, string instruments didn't have tuners but had tuning pins, like you find on a piano. You could consider contemporary tuners as being "robotic".

As for holes punched in cards, I keep reminding people of a nightmare that is unique to people of a specific era. In that dream you imagine that you're merrily on your way to the computing center with your stack of precisely ordered punch cards, and trip, dropping them all.

 

 

I liked his co-star better.

 

NO DISASSEMBLE!!!

 

DISASSEMBLE

 

"Technology will be the second coming!
And it will hit us while we're looking for a man!"

Home Nucleonics ----- City
Devin Townsend / Strapping Young Lad

 

People were always telling me that no one would need private music teachers when the internet arrived. Hasn't hurt my business at all, I'm always as full as I need to be and my waiting list, though a little shorter than 15 years ago, is still ample enough. Once a robot can do my job (which I doubt), I'll likely be retired anyway.

My previous careers in live music performance, building maintenance and labour negotiations aren't likely to be roboticized, not to say there aren't other threats to them...the "live" has been taken out of music performance in a large and evolutionary way over several decades, but still exists in spite of it.

 

People were always telling me that no one would need private music teachers when the internet arrived. Hasn't hurt my business at all,

I was going to ask you that very question last week but I never got around to it. Glad it hasn't affected you.

 

Maybe, in my case. I think AI will be able to handle a certain portion of what I do. But I still also add value beyond that. How that is viewed is the key question.

 

Maybe, in my case. I think AI will be able to handle a certain portion of what I do. But I still also add value beyond that. How that is viewed is the key question.

 

I had a labourer that hated his job. He actually walked off the site one morning because he didn’t want to carry bundles up the ladder anymore.

The next day I bought a ladder hoist. It costs about 80 cents of gas a day and I never have to stop what I’m doing to drive it to buy smokes. Just have to invent an industrial outdoor roomba and never put up with lackeys again.

 

 

there will never be a robot to do my job unless they change the way construction is done on every level

 

I am retired and my job is to sit around and do what I please. Let's see a robot drink coffee and surf the net.

 

Let's see a robot drink coffee and surf the net.

It's when they find your booze stash that you'll have to worry.

 

My job would kill a robot with boredom.

 

I currently work as a credit analyst for a large Canadian bank. My job is already showing signs of automation so my plan is to start retraining now as I'm nowhere near retirement age.

Will Robots Take My job?

My goal is to get into IT. Not exactly sure which discipline at this point.

 

My goal is to get into IT. Not exactly sure which discipline at this point.

Programing robots?

 

I feel pretty safe. I don't think they can program a machine to be cynical and sarcastic.

 

Vadsy?

 

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My goal is to get into IT. Not exactly sure which discipline at this point.

Unsticking the photocopier and fixing the coffee maker?

 

I want a robot to skipper the boat while I fish, as long as it unquestioningly takes orders from me. It won't make sarcastic comments when I piss in the bailer or lose a fish, and it won't complain about getting up early.