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Re:Rise of the Robots: Review and Reflection by Animats on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:40AM (#11626631)
"Knowledge worker" jobs may be more at risk than manual labor jobs. Robots are still very poor at dealing with unstructured situations, and progress on fixing that is very slow. Robots mechanically dexterous enough to, say, do a routine plumbing repair job don't exist yet, and the ones that are close are very complex and expensive.

On the other hand, machine learning systems are getting good at a lot of white-collar jobs that used to require human thinking. If you sit at a desk and your inputs and outputs all come in over a wire, be very afraid.

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