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another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 1:13 pm
by callmeslick
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http://money.msn.com/technology-investm ... job-market
these folks seem to feel that the matter is still subject to debate. I think it's a done deal in the short term. The only debatable part is whether we ever go back to needing the additional labor, at ANY time down the road. I see no reason why.
Re: another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 1:40 pm
by woodchip
As Walter Reuther once famously told the auto maker when asked:
"A company official proudly pointed to some new automatically controlled machines and asked Reuther: “How are you going to collect union dues from these guys?”
Reuther replied: “How are you going to get them to buy Fords?”
Re: another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 3:01 pm
by snoopy
It's a good time to get into the robot design business...
Re: another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:22 am
by callmeslick
snoopy wrote:It's a good time to get into the robot design business...
probably true to some extent, but I suspect that, for the big money, that horse has left the barn.
Re: another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 7:15 pm
by Ferno
Machines still can't make human decisions, and they'll never have our imagination.
Somehow (and I said this before), people will still remain in the loop.
Re: another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 8:05 pm
by vision
Ferno wrote:Machines still can't make human decisions, and they'll never have our imagination.
I wouldn't say
never have our imagination. And they already make human decisions, just not ethical ones. Yet.
Re: another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:12 pm
by Ferno
I would. and no.
Re: another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:40 pm
by roid
yeah why couldn't they one day have our imagination?
it's not magic.
Re: another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 5:27 am
by woodchip
Futurists and technology experts say robots and artificial intelligence of various sorts will become an accepted part of daily life by the year 2020 and will almost completely take over physical work. Our society will become a care economy. Robots will take over the physical jobs, they will evolve to be smarter than humans, and they are expected to be granted their own set of rights by 2020. Futurologist Ian Pearson projects that robots will be fully conscious, with superhuman levels of intelligence, by this time.
Re: another subject I've harped upon....
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 10:41 pm
by Ferno
Well right now, we can barely define consciousness.
And imagination by its' very nature defies explanation.