Humans Need Not Apply

rickyarbino · Post by **rickyarbino** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 1:03 am

The bit about the newspapers is what made me want to make this thread.

How many of you guys are looking towards robot induced redundancy?

jaydot · Post by **jaydot** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 1:07 am

Damn robots, taking all our jobs....

NickUndercover · Post by **NickUndercover** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:45 am

Time to invest more in my mongolian elk farmer retirement fund. Pretty sure I already have enough for the yurt !

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:34 am

Maybe door-to-door salesmen will make a comeback;
rainproof, insultproof & able to demonstrate their own dust-busting capacity.

Lots of jobs for them to do, currently dangerous for humans:
cleaning out tanks, inspecting sewers, mining, lifting corpulent patients, high-rise construction etc.
with humans then having choice as to how they'll risk their lives.

mks · Post by **mks** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 1:32 am

Robot Manager could be a lucrative field.

ehbes · Post by **ehbes** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:58 am

mks wrote:Robot Overseer could be a lucrative field.

fixed

rickyarbino · Post by **rickyarbino** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:25 am

mks wrote:Robot Manager could be a lucrative field.

A robot could do it tbf.

mks · Post by **mks** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:27 am

No way man.

mks · Post by **mks** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:28 am

It takes special skills to manage dem robots...

rickyarbino · Post by **rickyarbino** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:39 am

mks wrote:It takes special skills to manage dem robots...

Such as?
It's looking more and more that if something can be described, it can be programmed.

mks · Post by **mks** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:45 am

Well as long as we don't have robots programming robots...

Wait.

You give them the key, and they'll take the car.

Shit.

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:18 am

jesslem wrote:
mks wrote:It takes special skills to manage dem robots...
Such as?
It's looking more and more that if something can be described, it can be programmed.

//Haven't watched the video, at work but based purely on the quote.//

Eventually you'll have to have a human involved.

A manager robot to repair the grunt bots.

Who repairs the manager bot when it needs repairing?

Robots, in a way already control most of our IT infrastructure up until the point where its safer and more efficient to get a human with experience of dealing with issues what arise.

For instance systems will have a fail over (when one goes down, the second one will take over till the first is repaired and set as primary again) so theoretically the only time a human has to be involved is when both are non-operational . Inefficient but theoretically plausible.

Technically you could write scripts which find what messed it up and run through fixes based off error triggers but what if its more than just what it appears to be? What errors take priority? Sometimes you'll have to fix 'C' before you fix 'A' because then it'll break 'N'.

There is WAY to many factors to programme, when a human can fix it in less time and get paid a yearly salary for 3+ years at a company than it'll cost/take to create a system which is 100% automated and maintained by itself.

This is just in terms of server management.

Imagine a fucking robot?

Sure, small scale its fine but if we're talking corporate and armies of drones - I can just see them doing jobs deemed to dangerous for humans but still have an industry.

The crux would be if they'd be training the workers to control the bots or not. There is where ethics come into it.

topmo3 · Post by **topmo3** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:31 am

a bit depressing lol

rickyarbino · Post by **rickyarbino** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 1:31 pm

legend4ry wrote:
jesslem wrote:
mks wrote:It takes special skills to manage dem robots...
Such as?
It's looking more and more that if something can be described, it can be programmed.
//Haven't watched the video, at work but based purely on the quote.//

Eventually you'll have to have a human involved.

A manager robot to repair the grunt bots.

Who repairs the manager bot when it needs repairing?

Watch the video tbh, if not, this clip is shorter and answers the question quite well.

For the americansinsciencevideo-phobes, or if you just want a shorter clip, click here.

hifi · Post by **hifi** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 12:27 am

when i go to the supermarket i like using those self checkout mahines, if it makes human cashiers redundant then who needs them

test_recordings · Post by **test_recordings** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:55 am

Hypefiend wrote:when i go to the supermarket i like using those self checkout mahines, if it makes human cashiers redundant then who needs them

They're slow but waste customers' time not the supermarket's and don't even need a poor sod on minimum wage

$$$$$

hifi · Post by **hifi** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:34 am

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