Tim Tyler: Will machines take our jobs?

Video discussing whether the advent of intelligent machines will have the effect of making humans redundant.

Transcript: http://alife.co.uk/essays/will_machines_take_our_jobs/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• machines
• jobs
• automation
• takeover

[cheeswisz]

I've been programming robots in my engineering class. It's harder than it looks.if robots are taking over the world, it'll take a pretty long time

[tmtyler]

@cheeswisz Progress seems likely to be proceeding more rapidly - once we get access to superintelligent machines.

[petillwp]

If you were a politician talking about this, what would you say? We as a society have a decision to make. The early stages of machine takeover may already be happening in the U.S., hence the persistent unemployment despite rising GDP--employers are starting to not need employees anymore. How we deal with such problems now will set our course for the future. I propose a starting point: remove the stigmatization on govt. handouts and let everyone benefit from the advancement of technology.

[petillwp]

Same conclusion that I came to independently when thinking about this topic, but I like that the video shows other sides at least a little. One question: what happens to the machine owners when nobody has the money to buy their products? I imagine they would be completely self-sufficient by that point and would have no reason to interact with everyone else...nor would their robots...in which case all of their machines may be taken out of the equation and we can rebuild society from scratch.

[viorelagocs]

Why don't politicians talk about this??? It seems to me politics is so blind on the long term, and it always has been...

[anythingnew]

Fuck machines, fuck technology!

[tmtyler]

@CytherLynx Everyone?!? Alas, that seems incredibly unlikely.

[cheeswisz]

@tmtyler I've worked with these things in person, and sure, they could be better than the last two decades, because it takes less time to program them as opposed to registering the NC program code by hand. But even though we have our awesome robots and awesome software for those robots, we have to make do with the things we have. That is, until robotic arms can start building, wiring, placing, programming and inventing more robotic arms.

[AndersonSacco]

In business there is a process called Mcdonaldlization,it has four stages last one is the COMPLETE replacement of the human worker with a more effective machines..

[nambypamby34]

I don't....agree with that... though. We will have time to come up with other productive things to sell and do. Great Video. I don't hear many people talking about this.