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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by jethro_tell on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:10PM (#13562865)
We've had automation of physical tasks for a long time. Automation of mental tasks is a whole different ball game. People who think we're seeing more of the same game have no idea. You can't compare a machine being stronger/faster than a person to a machine being smarter than a person.

It's not the same thing, and we aren't ready for it, partly just because people don't recognize the difference between the two.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by maverick_iceman on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:07PM (#13565407)
A lot of mental tasks have been automated away. Pen and paper to slide rule to electronic calculator etc.
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by jethro_tell on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:20PM (#13584138)
Well, the calculation has been automated away. before now, you still needed a semi-competent person to input the values for computation. Now a computer can start to do that. We'll see things like computer vision tools that can estimate concrete order volumes based on a couple quick looks into the forms.
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