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whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
31. Just a wild guess, but your company's output has increased too perhaps?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 12:29 PM
Mar 2016

It's hardly, I suspect, automation cet par driving increased headcount.

But they're getting closer everyday... PoliticAverse Mar 2016 #1
Yes, and Google is now selling that company Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #4
It seems Google is having difficulty integrating its AI with its physical robots... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #34
There are a number of problems that must be overcome Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #35
People in the future are going to laugh at our attempts in creating AI lumberjack_jeff Mar 2016 #43
And while it is easy to point to a 777 aircraft and say Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #45
Cool but google photos does that quite handily Egnever Mar 2016 #2
Yes, but Google relies on image TAGS Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #5
No it doesn't Egnever Mar 2016 #48
Yes, they are using tags Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #51
You are confusing a google image search with google photos Egnever Mar 2016 #52
It is still using pattern matching based on images linked to on the web Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #56
Again I don't think you are correct see the post below Egnever Mar 2016 #57
From a link inside your own popular mechanics article Egnever Mar 2016 #54
Key sentences from the article Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #62
Now you are quibbling Egnever Mar 2016 #76
Point is they CLAIM Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #77
Just take a step back to the progress between 1950 and now Albertoo Mar 2016 #3
Again, we underestimate what the human brain can do Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #6
Like often in discussion, it's all in the qualifiers Albertoo Mar 2016 #7
Absolutely true, Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #46
I fear you picked a bad example Albertoo Mar 2016 #49
I disagree. Google translate can simply convert words from one language to another Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #53
My dear Holmes, Watson proves you wrong Albertoo Mar 2016 #55
Actually, I addressed Watson Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #59
tsk, tsk, tsk, you keep moving the goalposts Albertoo Mar 2016 #61
My point in my original post was that Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #63
practical robots that will start taking people's jobs??? It started happening ages ago. Albertoo Mar 2016 #64
And yet, there are still travel agents Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #67
Yes, but far less Albertoo Mar 2016 #68
From my original post Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #69
Robots replaced humans in manufacturing even earlier Albertoo Mar 2016 #70
Do you see the robots in the video Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #71
We probably do not have a signiificant disagreement. It's just about words. Albertoo Mar 2016 #75
There is a reason Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are warning us about AI. killbotfactory Mar 2016 #11
Yes, Musk and Hawking are right to be woried about AIs, Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #13
It doesn't need to replace all human jobs, just some of them. Calista241 Mar 2016 #60
Really? Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #65
Yeah, I can see the future and it says Robots will get better faster Johonny Mar 2016 #18
"Faster" is a relative term Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #72
Good thing humans aren't affected by EMP. Deadshot Mar 2016 #29
Excellent pic Albertoo Mar 2016 #50
Robots won't replace human workers, but automation will. procon Mar 2016 #8
But automation can only do certain tasks within very well defined parameters Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #14
Just a wild guess, but your company's output has increased too perhaps? whatthehey Mar 2016 #31
Absolutely, Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #73
Automation is dramatically reducing the human labor required for many kinds of manufacturing. cheapdate Mar 2016 #9
Yes, it is happening, and will continue to happen Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #15
Automation is going to hit white collar workers next killbotfactory Mar 2016 #10
True, but of late Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #17
Humans don't have a halting issue. Rex Mar 2016 #12
Robots require power Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #16
True, it is curious how some simple tasks for humans are NPhard for a computer. Rex Mar 2016 #32
What computers can do is simple tasks at close to the speed of light. Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #36
Yes that is the crux of the problem, their ability to interpret important information Rex Mar 2016 #47
Tell that to Lee Sedol MowCowWhoHow III Mar 2016 #19
Golly, a computer they spent over a decade designing Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #23
It's pretty obvious you don't have a good grasp of the subject area MowCowWhoHow III Mar 2016 #24
Yes, I do. Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #38
Yes, much of our "knowledge" is embedded in our perceptual apparatus. bemildred Mar 2016 #20
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
Precisely! Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #22
One thing about "Automatic braking"..... A HERETIC I AM Mar 2016 #25
You outline the other problem of innovation and automation Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #39
"the miracle of the human body" meme is mostly magical thinking phantom power Mar 2016 #26
I don't recall using the word "miracle" Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #40
You are being too literal. Humans have already been replaced "in vast quantities" by robots. ieoeja Mar 2016 #27
Actually what you are seeing there is more the result of outsourcing Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #74
For what it is worth, usedtobedemgurl Mar 2016 #28
Yes, you bring up the economics of the issue Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #44
The list of jobs not requiring visual identification of different objects is not small whatthehey Mar 2016 #30
Visual identification is just one aspect of a task Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #42
That's one area that human being excel in, but just because we excel at one doesn't mean... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #33
A would distinguish between warehouses Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #41
As long as they don't replace art teachers...n/t PasadenaTrudy Mar 2016 #37
FFS, you sound like the people in 1905 who said man flying was a century away..... Logical Mar 2016 #58
And as I point out Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #66
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