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Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by verroq on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:29PM (#11275683)
In the age of high tech robot replacements, do unskilled factory workers have a future?
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Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by hemdawgz on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:51PM (#11275751)
This one unfortunately isn't analogous with the others.
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Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by iopq on Saturday March 12, 2016 @09:04PM (#11275784)
They actually do not.
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Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by ZenoArrow on Sunday March 13, 2016 @06:40AM (#11277171)
The analogy only works if people do the particular activity for pleasure, so the question becomes... is it possible to find pleasure in factory work? One could argue that it's possible, but it may look different to what it does today. Some people may enjoy the feeling of refined manual dexterity, so games could emerge where activities like packing boxes at speed becomes a sport, in a similar vein to how cup stacking is a sport now.
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