American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots

Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots by brianwawok on Sunday August 07, 2016 @07:40PM (#12244407)

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.

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Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots by goda90 on Sunday August 07, 2016 @09:16PM (#12244835)

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?

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Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots by sverige on Sunday August 07, 2016 @09:15PM (#12244833)

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.

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Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots by brianwawok on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:33AM (#12248055)

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 ;)

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