The robots are coming, to take the jobs

[Shaul]

Robot Janitors Are Coming to Mop Floors at a Walmart Near You

I have been reading a lot about automation and robots in the workplace recently. For example Martin Ford’s “Rise of the Robots”. Robots and automation are bringing massive changes to the workplaces. Many jobs, both blue and white collars, are going to disappear.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Nothing new here. Wasn't Walmart among the first to introduce self-checkouts?

 

[Revoltingest]

I've been watching the sky fall....
I've Been Warning Y'all....Many Low Skill Jobs Will Soon Disappear

 

[Brickjectivity]

Robot Janitors Are Coming to Mop Floors at a Walmart Near You

I have been reading a lot about automation and robots in the workplace recently. For example Martin Ford’s “Rise of the Robots”. Robots and automation are bringing massive changes to the workplaces. Many jobs, both blue and white collars, are going to disappear.

"Now Hiring Signs" continue to be placed outside. What can it mean?

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

"Now Hiring Signs" continue to be placed outside. What can it mean?

That robots are still too expensive and not reliable enough to pay for themselves in saved labor costs for most businesses.

 

[Revoltingest]

"Now Hiring Signs" continue to be placed outside. What can it mean?

Not enuf robots are applying?

I plan to invest in companies destined to grow....

 

[sun rise]

AI systems are getting better than doctors at diagnosing illness. And the legal profession is slowly seeing that same trend.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Eventually, we'll have robots that will go do our jobs for us, clean our houses, pick up groceries, prepare meals, run errands, pay bills, order goods and services and do everything else for us.

About that time, the robots will start saying to themselves, "Why in the hell are we doing all this stuff for these no-good layabouts?" and they'll cut us out of the equation.

just sayin'

 

[Brickjectivity]

AI systems are getting better than doctors at diagnosing illness. And the legal profession is slowly seeing that same trend.

Maybe it will result in reasonable rates?

 

[Revoltingest]

Maybe it will result in reasonable rates?

Robots can be programmed to over-charge.
And they'll prolly be more capable of doing so.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Robots can be programmed to over-charge.
And they'll prolly be more capable of doing so.

I'll program them to undercut what the other robots are charging.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'll program them to undercut what the other robots are charging.

What if the robot union finds out?

 

[Willamena]

Oh, god... robot H.R.

 

[Shaul]

Nothing new here. Wasn't Walmart among the first to introduce self-checkouts?

Are you sure this isn’t something new? The automation and robots already are eliminating jobs. As they improve, faster and faster exponentially, there will soon be very few jobs not at risk in elimination. This is a distinct possibility ypthat has never occurred before.

 

[Shaul]

Oh, god... robot H.R.

Actually robots and automation are already in H.R. Algorithms can already select the best candidates from employment applications. They can also determine which jobs can best be eliminated in the most cost effective way. Also artificial intelligence can learn how a person does their job and make them redundant.

Have a nice day.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Are you sure this isn’t something new? The automation and robots already are eliminating jobs. As they improve, faster and faster exponentially, there will soon be very few jobs not at risk in elimination. This is a distinct possibility ypthat has never occurred before.

I feel personally that this is going to create hard times for a while. Then, eventually, we all could be making our own goods instead of buying them, using robot labor to help. Each person will work their own land and possibly collude with neighbors to make some of the more difficult products needed. The current business cycle based on consumerism can disappear as the robot replaces the assembly line.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Are you sure this isn’t something new? The automation and robots already are eliminating jobs. As they improve, faster and faster exponentially, there will soon be very few jobs not at risk in elimination. This is a distinct possibility ypthat has never occurred before.

Of course robots are eliminating jobs. They're eliminating the dirty, dangerous, laborious jobs that no one wants.

But the job sector is shifting. While these jobs are eliminated, new jobs in technology are being created at practically the same rate.

Why Robots Will Not Take Over Human Jobs

 

[Shaul]

AI systems are getting better than doctors at diagnosing illness. And the legal profession is slowly seeing that same trend.

One area in law is already being automated. The discovery process, which until now was a bastion for surplus law school graduates, has now been successfully automated.

 

[Shaul]

I feel personally that this is going to create hard times for a while. Then, eventually, we all could be making our own goods instead of buying them, using robot labor to help. Each person will work their own land and possibly collude with neighbors to make some of the more difficult products needed. The current business cycle based on consumerism can disappear as the robot replaces the assembly line.

That is one possibility. I had thought of similar possibilities. Time will tell.

 

[Shaul]

Of course robots are eliminating jobs. They're eliminating the dirty, dangerous, laborious jobs that no one wants.

But the job sector is shifting. While these jobs are eliminated, new jobs in technology are being created at practically the same rate.

Why Robots Will Not Take Over Human Jobs

Are you so sure about that? The article you linked was rather short on specifics and has debatable conclusions. The same source of your article link, Forbes, also published an article saying much the opposite.
Robots Will Take Our Jobs And We Need A Plan: 4 Scenarios For The Future