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In reply to the discussion: This is why we are not about to be replaced by robots [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)8. Robots won't replace human workers, but automation will.
People often use the word "robot" as a catch-all term for all types mechanical things controlled by computer programming. Repetitive work is already being mechanized and performed by single function automated devices in many types of factories that are trying to cut costs by replacing human labor. This process will expand as advances in technology find ever increasing uses for more high tech machines. With wider use comes increased demand which will make this automated equipment even more cost effective than hiring workers.
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It seems Google is having difficulty integrating its AI with its physical robots...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#34
I disagree. Google translate can simply convert words from one language to another
Kelvin Mace
Mar 2016
#53
practical robots that will start taking people's jobs??? It started happening ages ago.
Albertoo
Mar 2016
#64
There is a reason Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are warning us about AI.
killbotfactory
Mar 2016
#11
But automation can only do certain tasks within very well defined parameters
Kelvin Mace
Mar 2016
#14
Automation is dramatically reducing the human labor required for many kinds of manufacturing.
cheapdate
Mar 2016
#9
Yes that is the crux of the problem, their ability to interpret important information
Rex
Mar 2016
#47
I'm inclined to agree with you and I work in an industry that seems to be trying to replace me!
A HERETIC I AM
Mar 2016
#21
You are being too literal. Humans have already been replaced "in vast quantities" by robots.
ieoeja
Mar 2016
#27
The list of jobs not requiring visual identification of different objects is not small
whatthehey
Mar 2016
#30
That's one area that human being excel in, but just because we excel at one doesn't mean...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#33
FFS, you sound like the people in 1905 who said man flying was a century away.....
Logical
Mar 2016
#58