Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over
by cranklin on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @06:40PM
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Too much credit given to "robots". I see this coming from Hollywood, not Hacker News.
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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @07:34PM
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Google has cars that are about to kill the entire transportation industry. Amazon already reduced the workers in some of its warehouses to biomechanical grabbing hands; all higher-order functions are performed by robots. No, I don't think we're giving too much credit to robots.
Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over
by cranklin on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @08:40PM
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autonomous vehicles and biomechanical grabbing hands are completely different than engineering software. The aforementioned tasks, while an impressive feat (especially in computer vision), are programmable tasks. To create "robots" that can engineer/create new software without a software engineer is not going to happen in this lifetime.