Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots
by rakpol on Sunday August 07, 2016 @08:43PM
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Thus the reason I know carpentry :3 but, having programmed for a while, it seems like the hardest problems are converting plain english requirements to source code. At the point that that becomes trivial (and doesn't fall into WYSIWYG editors or graphical languages, which already exist and haven't brought about the apocalypse), wouldn't you just ask the computer to make itself smarter over and over? Or ask it to automate any other profession with stupendous ease?
Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots
by xbmcuser on Monday August 08, 2016 @12:34AM
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I think specialisation in software will be the first to go not programing itself.
I expect machine learning software to get very good at finding and fixing software exploits in the next few years. Google used deepmind and machine learning to optimise their energy use. How long before (maybe they are doing it already) put it to work on optimising their software code like chrome and android etc to find to speed it up or find exploits.
Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots
by brianwawok on Sunday August 07, 2016 @07:40PM
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A few jobs I feel pretty safe will still be here in 50 years. They include robot repair, nurses, and computer programmer. Maybe not in 100 years but I won't care then.
Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots
by goda90 on Sunday August 07, 2016 @09:16PM
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Why repair robots when you can just disassemble them the same way you assembled them(automatically) and reuse the functioning parts and recycle the rest?
Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots
by sverige on Sunday August 07, 2016 @09:15PM
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If robots can do surgery, surely they can do nursing. And repair themselves. And write programs. And even new and better programming languages that humans can't understand.
Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots
by brianwawok on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:33AM
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So surgery is a mechanical thing. Take a heart like X, make it look like Y. I can see robots being able to get there at some point.
Nursing, at least part of it, is about empathy and care. If someone is in the hospital getting robot heart surgery, someone has to help guide them through the practice. I do not see robot empathy in the next 50 years. Same reason I do not see robot counselors on the horizon ;)
That's assuming that programming won't be one of the first categories of jobs to be automated away by AI. Think of the cost savings! But thankfully we don't have to worry about what all those poor programmers are going to do since it's progress for humanity.