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In reply to the discussion: This is why we are not about to be replaced by robots [View all]cheapdate
(3,811 posts)9. Automation is dramatically reducing the human labor required for many kinds of manufacturing.
I design control systems for manufacturing processes, automated production lines, and specialty machines.
We won't eliminate the need for labor in the foreseeable future, but generally speaking, the trend is for fewer and fewer people required for many manufacturing processes. It's safe to say the trend is essentially permanent. Advances in materials and technology, including microprocessors, controllers, servos, sensors, etc. are making automation easier and cheaper every day.
Good, bad, or indifferent, that's what's happening.
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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