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80% of IT Jobs can be Replaced by Automation, and it’s ‘Exciting’
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The last few centuries we've had amazing time-saving technologies. A tractor can do the work of hundreds of men. A semi truck can do the work of hundreds of men. A computer can do the work of hundreds of men. And on and on and on.
We should all be working 15-20 hour weeks, tops, with all this labor-saving technology. But we don't. Because the people with the money want to keep getting even more of the money, so they force a constant-growth, interest-based economic system. A system that pushes people to work more and more "creating capital" that no one actually needs for the sole purpose of ensuring that the interest-class continues to capture most of the wealth simply by the mere fact that they own things.
It isn't like any of those rich people invented all these labor saving devices that make them wealthy. Wealthy at the expense of workers who they continuously degrade with long hours of meaningless work at low pay, or fire once they can use the profits the workers earned them to buy a machine to replace them. The entire human culture together over history has made those labor-saving advances. Everyone should benefit, but instead the poor just get laid off and have to grub for a new job, while the rich get to own all the new toys, then push the economy to a place where they keep controlling more and more of it.
We need some MAJOR changes soon. Tops among those are probably eliminating the interest-based constant-growth economy in favor of a devaluating currency (which encourages loans and the constant spreading of wealth while penalizing accumulation), and institute a universal basic income (so that everyone gets their fair share of the fact that human culture has eliminated the necessity for everyone to work) to cover the essentials of life, and gives those people the chance to actually do something meaningful with their life.
We should all be working 15-20 hour weeks, tops, with all this labor-saving technology. But we don't. Because the people with the money want to keep getting even more of the money, so they force a constant-growth, interest-based economic system. A system that pushes people to work more and more "creating capital" that no one actually needs for the sole purpose of ensuring that the interest-class continues to capture most of the wealth simply by the mere fact that they own things.
It isn't like any of those rich people invented all these labor saving devices that make them wealthy. Wealthy at the expense of workers who they continuously degrade with long hours of meaningless work at low pay, or fire once they can use the profits the workers earned them to buy a machine to replace them. The entire human culture together over history has made those labor-saving advances. Everyone should benefit, but instead the poor just get laid off and have to grub for a new job, while the rich get to own all the new toys, then push the economy to a place where they keep controlling more and more of it.
We need some MAJOR changes soon. Tops among those are probably eliminating the interest-based constant-growth economy in favor of a devaluating currency (which encourages loans and the constant spreading of wealth while penalizing accumulation), and institute a universal basic income (so that everyone gets their fair share of the fact that human culture has eliminated the necessity for everyone to work) to cover the essentials of life, and gives those people the chance to actually do something meaningful with their life.
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Make Automation Great Again.........you carbon based biological life forms.
Even agriculture is getting a robot makeover
5 Coolest Farm Robots - Modern Farmer
Cheap robots are coming for our farm jobs by taking the most brutal tasks first
Even agriculture is getting a robot makeover
5 Coolest Farm Robots - Modern Farmer
Cheap robots are coming for our farm jobs by taking the most brutal tasks first
Yep you are absolutely right this is why I hate selfish attitudes he was so worried about himself he couldn't even see that this could actually hurt him also.If no one has jobs to buy the shyt you market, you're out of a job too
I can always work for myself from home. Worst case scenario can push yay to the under employed doctors and coders. Pushing is one job that requires count and people skills which AI cannot duplicate.
We are going to have another great Depression if we don't figure out how to transition to an economic system where the wealth created by automation can be shared with the 99 percent . The debt based monetary system we have now won't survive the 21st century, and as much as Wall Street thinks they can keep destroying middleclass whilst reaping the benefits of automation at the expense of everyone's else, eventually their Jobs will get automated as well with advancing AI systems, not to mention many companies will fail as the middleclass is destroyed by AI and Automation . I have a feeling there's going to be some tough times ahead since the establishment is going to resist change, and we are all going to suffer for it. If you're employed in a profession or trade that will eventually be automated within 20 years, don't bother having kids. It won't be fair on them, to be born in a world of worsening Climate Change and permanent unemployment and neo serfdom, unless of course you're apart of the one percent or your parents left you with some tangible assets and a trust fund.
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Yes. But the better question is: "Can a machine teach itself to be racist or discriminatory?"
The answer is already yes:
Microsoft deletes 'teen girl' AI after it became a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours
Microsoft Had to Suspend Its AI Chatbot After It Veered Into White Supremacy
At this stage, we should be asking if a true AI can teach itself that it is superior than its creators (humans)? If so, we may be in a lot of trouble
Walgreens will never automate illegal street drugs for people in need of a fix. Think automation is cool as it will allow society to restructure itself and people live a higher quality of life with a better work life balance. Prior to colonialism, people were not working 8-12 hour days.
The trolls on R and 4(h@n were fukking with microsoft on that oneRacist Twitter Bot Went Awry Due To “Coordinated Effort” By Users, Says Microsoft
Microsoft silences its “Tay” chatbot following a series of racist outbursts on Twitter.
posted on Mar. 24, 2016, at 12:15 p.m.
Alex Kantrowitz
BuzzFeed News Reporter
replied with a simple “of course.” But after 24 hours conversing with the public, Tay’s dialogue took a sudden and dramatic turn. The chatbot, which Microsoft claims to have imbued with the personality of a teenage American girl, began tweeting her support for genocide and denying the Holocaust.
Microsoft quickly took Tay offline, issuing a comment blaming the bot’s sudden degeneration on a coordinated effort to undermine her conversational abilities.
“The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. It is as much a social and cultural experiment, as it is technical,” a Microsoft spokesperson told BuzzFeed News in an email. “Unfortunately, within the first 24 hours of coming online, we became aware of a coordinated effort by some users to abuse Tay’s commenting skills to have Tay respond in inappropriate ways. As a result, we have taken Tay offline and are making adjustments.”
Left unexplained: why Tay was released to the public without a mechanism that would have protected the bot from such abuse, blacklisting contentious language. Asked why Microsoft didn’t filter words like the n-word and “holocaust,” a Microsoft spokesperson did not immediately provide an explanation.
Microsoft unleashed Tay to the masses Wednesday on a number of platforms including GroupMe, Twitter, and Kik. Tay learns as she goes: “The more you talk to her the smarter she gets,” Microsoft researcher Kati London told BuzzFeed News in an interview. Tay takes stances, London said. An intriguing theory, but obviously problematic when tested against the dark elements of the internet.
Still proves your point tho..if someone builds an AI to interact with the world will it be smart enough to avoid being misled ,hacked or tampered with...between the trolls and criminals the engineers cant cover every base.
Why you think that trend will start now? We've already had massive advances in labor-saving technology for two centuries, and that better work-life balance hasn't started yet.
Look at my post above.
As long as the wealthy are dispensing the wealth, they'll work hard to ensure that you keep working 40+ hours/week to take home as little of it as possible, or not get any at all. With out a new approach to the economic system, benefits of automation will never trickle down to the worker.
Can robots give me a Nas Fade though?
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good post
I think there will be some countries that will make this argument and succeed with it. The usa won't be one of them
