The Robots are Coming (DoD to replace one fourth of soldiers with bots by 2030)

Something like half of all jobs are supposed to be automated or replaced by robots by 2030. It will be interesting to see that how we as a society deal with the limited amount of jobs available.

Well, I could kinda see it, even if I think it's alarmist and wrong. You might say, "How do you automate a waitress?"

And then you should go to a Wal-Mart self-checkout line.

The trend is to increasing automation. Tax laws which encourage the manufacture and purchase of new hardware over the maintenance of workers don't help that trend a lot. When it's cheaper to buy a new machine than it is to hire and train a new worker... well.

It's not even that I think the trend to automation is a bad thing. On the whole I think it's a very good thing. But I do think that it's causing forseeable consequences in our society (already) which we'd rather ignore than plan for. As the tools get more powerful and intricate, the consequences of the choice will become more severe as well.

Bush talked about it with his whole "Information Economy" thing. I never understood what he actually fucking meant by that.

As it turns out, neither did he. But at least he recognized the political nature of the problem that's brewing.

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ARE YOU MAKING SELF AWARE MACHINES? DO THE WORDS "SKY NET" MEAN NOTHING TO YOU?

That's kinda bullshit though. I can tell you, automated HR software is bullshit. It honestly is horrible. If you've ever had to deal with actual people and writing an actual schedule you should realize that while it is not difficult, there is a trick to it, and it is more a matter of art than science.

They're saving money by not hiring these people, but they're losing effectiveness and productivity with the terrible terrible bullshit schedules that a make sense to an algorithm. That solution is undeniably cheaper, but it significantly impacts the quality of service.

And to make matters even worse, it validates a sort of laziness among those doing the jobs who aren't replaced.

This is the sort of problem I'm talking about when it comes to automation. There are good implementations, and there are self defeating implementations. It doesn't HAVE to get better. But because the automationischeaper, it allows bad work to exist for that much longer. It even allows it to propagate.

No way auditors are getting replaced by software. The whole point of auditing is having judgment and rendering an opinion. (auditor here)

Time for pro-human politics. Business owners should be in big trouble if they don't hire at least 1 human per robot.

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fanaskin_sl said:

you'd still have supervisors to look over the results , but I imagine the grunt work in nearly any paper pushing job is vulnerable to automation.

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I imagine it will displace enough workers to threaten social unrest in some countries.

CaughtCross_sl said:

No way auditors are getting replaced by software. The whole point of auditing is having judgment and rendering an opinion. (auditor here)

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It's not replacement, it's efficiency leading to reduced hours. Voice recognition software for auditing calls, for instance, is already here. It provides a list of exceptions for an auditor to listen to and all recognized phrases in a call flow are categorized as within acceptable parameters and given in a report. So instead of spending 30 minutes reviewing a call, you spend 8 seconds listening to a segment the computer didn't catch and log it in a report with a bunch of check boxes that was already generated.

While we are at it, not technically robots, but the teachers of the 21st century are being phased into online classes. A fucking machine can do the grading. It's staggering the amount of kids that learn through online classes, without any interaction with a teacher.

As a teacher I see the benefits and the many downfalls. Especially the downfalls of online only classes for minors that don't have the initiative of a fucking sloth.