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Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by redleggedfrog on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:08AM (#15635489)
I laughed out loud at this.

I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways. How will they help a person who can't even express themselves in words or speech because they're near illiterate? This isn't a facile question - this is a large percentage of the people I've written software for.

Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by sametmax on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:25AM (#15635618)
But after laughing I'm crying.

Because what will happend is that the robot won't deal with it. Their creators will simply assume the use case is only 1% of their input and will just lock it out. We will live in a more and more standardized and inflexible society.

It's happening already.

This week, I had to bring a car for a second checkup and I was late to my appointment. The gal told me I had to reschedule because the computer didn't allow to be late at a second checkup: the date between the first and the second was fixed.

Because I'm a computer scientist, I knew what to do: let's "forget" about the whole thing and create a new "first checkup" for which I could come without a schedule. I told her and she though it was a great idea and we worked around the system. Luckily they didn't have a check for that and she was able to do my checkup.

So when the robot will take your job, they will just ignore a whole lot of cases and make everyone not fitting the exact size of the box living in hell.

Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by EADGBE on Monday November 06, 2017 @11:18AM (#15636465)
I fear for when the system doesn't allow it.

"Sorry, I can't do that on this computer" shouldn't be a thing. But it already is.

Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by yawz on Monday November 06, 2017 @12:55PM (#15637248)
> I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways.

They won't have to. Politics are human ways. But, who knows? When they reach super-intelligence, maybe they're going to become competitive, jealous, envious, greedy, etc. as well.