Could a robot do your job? Short answer: yes

How about a robot programmer?
I dont think we will ever let them program themselves.
 
Kevin Lancaster said:
Could a robot do your job? Short answer: yes

Here’s a game to play over dinner. One person names a profession that they believe can’t be taken over by a machine, and another person has to make a case why it’s not so future-proof.
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Obviously Kevin, if all professions become taken over by robots, then nobody will earn any more money and the economy will collapse. These robots will become redundant too because nobody will be able to afford their services or products. I guess small elites of extremely wealthy people may have it well but even there I don't know if they will do as well as in the current economy.
 
Can a robot be made to write Conversation articles?

The examples given are so stupid. Talking about replacing police officers, and then referencing Robocop and Terminator.

I looked up the music example given, which seemed to shift the goal post from musician (composition) to musician (sheet playback) and found: http://www.iiia.csic.es/%7Earcos/noos/Demos/Example.html

It's not going to put sax players out of business.
 
Spotja said:
Terminator Salvation?
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Why not? The article doesn't let itself get shackled by pesky "reality", so why keep ourselves down.

S1m0ne proved that AI can replace actresses, Rosie from the Jetsons showed that maids can be replaced, and KITT showed us a properly functional self-driving car.
 
I don't think AI will catch up to human creativity any time soon. Robots will not invent the DC Comics super heroes or come up with the idea of "Injustice: Gods Among Us". So long as they're constrained by certain laws/rules (and are incapable of performing any actions outside of logic), their imagination is severely limited.

Space_Chief said:
Obviously Kevin, if all professions become taken over by robots, then nobody will earn any more money and the economy will collapse. These robots will become redundant too because nobody will be able to afford their services or products. I guess small elites of extremely wealthy people may have it well but even there I don't know if they will do as well as in the current economy.
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Au contraire. With robots doing all the work, there will be no need for humans to break a sweat. They will do everything for us: farm, butcher, manufacture items, do construction, etc. There will be no need for money, bank accounts, or jobs for humans. With robots taking care of everything, we can relax and count daisies for days if we so wish. At least that's the idea behind it (I think).
 
The next option was police officer. It’s often said that computers can’t or won’t behave ethically. Unfortunately, Hollywood has already painted a very dystopian picture here in movies like Robocop and Terminator.
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Real police officers don't behave ethically anyway, so a robot police officer can only be an improvement.
 
What will we do with all that spare time? One can only have so much recreational sex before one is too tender and philosophical discussions before all is talked out (or a war started)...
 
For instance, computers can take plain sheet music and turn it into an expressive jazz performance, as my colleague Ramon Lopez de Mantaras has shown.

So, jazz musicians watch out. Your jobs might not be safe from robot incursion.
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Nope, you can't make a robot for a particular job if you're not going to be able to make money off it... well you can, but it's not sustainable. Nobody outside of Japan wants to pay to listen to AI synth pop, trust me.
 
I've almost replaced myself with software. Almost. Therein lies the problem. Always something you cannot code against in certain sectors.
 
Space_Chief said:
Obviously Kevin, if all professions become taken over by robots, then nobody will earn any more money and the economy will collapse. These robots will become redundant too because nobody will be able to afford their services or products. I guess small elites of extremely wealthy people may have it well but even there I don't know if they will do as well as in the current economy.
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Uh, If nobody had any money to buy the products that these companies make, wouldn't they themselves then go broke?
Surely if robots are making everything cheaply, companies would lower the cost, so that people could afford to actually buy their products.

Companies price stuff so that people would actually buy them. If nobody is buying they simply go out of business.
 
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If a robot can only replace all our jobs and let unemployment rates soar, then yet another group of these "journalists" will be writing about that. AI first have to reach a very advanced state before these robots can even start doing some parts of management jobs, where I believe the advancement from robot to android or humanoid will be needed to make morally ethical decisions.

Anyway, we might even just skip the whole "robotic" stage if the world ends up like in Walking Dead or Z-Nation. :wtf:
 
Could a robot do your job? Short answer: yes
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Nope. Or rather by the time they manage that they'd be pretty much human level anyway.

Beachless said:
How about a robot programmer?
I dont think we will ever let them program themselves.
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We already do. Read up on how Intel CPUs are designed. Humans do lots of the lifting, but ultimately its up to computers to figure out the end product...they're better at doing 3D layout optimisations. In fact its been a case of humans being unable to do it for many years already.
 
jax_maxit said:
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Going by your formulaic examples I think such are more than possible given current AI. Basic premise plot driven by formulas which appeal to teenage kiddies. Any idiot can churn these out and so can any AI. I could even do it. As a kid I played with action figures and my plots were no worse than the current junk on TV/cinema.


Au contraire. With robots doing all the work, there will be no need for humans to break a sweat. They will do everything for us: farm, butcher, manufacture items, do construction, etc. There will be no need for money, bank accounts, or jobs for humans. With robots taking care of everything, we can relax and count daisies for days if we so wish. At least that's the idea behind it (I think).
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We can relax and count daisies? And how is that going to pay the robot manufacturer? And energy and resources are infinite? So you want a motorboat and a home in Malibu, how is that going to work out when 20 million others want that too? This sounds like a Star Trek like BS hippie utopia. It was attempted already with the power of free (very cheap) labour - slave labour and collective farm and factory labour, and it didn't work. Those robot workers and peasants just didn't make life easier for everyone, including the idiots at the top.
 
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Nope. Or rather by the time they manage that they'd be pretty much human level anyway.
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Sure but they'll be robots. So yes, you agree. Nope does not follow your non sequitur.

We already do. Read up on how Intel CPUs are designed. Humans do lots of the lifting, but ultimately its up to computers to figure out the end product...they're better at doing 3D layout optimisations. In fact its been a case of humans being unable to do it for many years already.
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Sure but a human programs the algorithms, or the algorithms which program these algorithms.
 
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