Humans Need Not Apply

[Maxwell.]

simple job like a cashier
thats a good job for a robot. (in the future duh guys)

a lawyer is not a robot job
maybe you can have a robot follow you around carrying your suit case

but yeah i agree with having robots help around with tasks to complete a goal is nice, its already happening, but i disagree with the claim that robots will take over all jobs (and the world) and leave humans with nothing to do. maybe robot jobs will never happen because building robots is too expensive or too hard to maintain or program.

if im wrong you can come and tap dance over my grave
im sorry but its literally impossible. you have to draw a fine line somewhere.

that creativity part annoyed me though, I bet the robot was just copying a picture

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[Blockzillahead]

The video explained how bots can work as lawyers.

actually it explained how bots can help lawyers. and i agree. but taking the whole job? maybe in another parallel dimension

[*FacePalm*]

beep boop i am here to take american jobs

[Harm94]

How do expect the machines to support our economy which is based around the buying of objects like phones, tvs, computers, coffee, food, and medicine. You need money to buy those things, and to get money you need to work. Yet you can't work if robots have taken over everything. The economy would tank or we would live in world were only the top 1%, a few programmers, and a few technicians would be able to live decently. Sounds like Marx's version of a dystopia.

[Plethora]

Robots will not replace humans in the workforce.

The first real work I did as a laborer involved lifting buckets of grout/mortar and cinder blocks up scaffolding using a pulley (just a wheel, didn't make it any easier).  Toward the end the scaffolding got pretty high, and the elevator shaft we were building got to be over thirty feet tall.  Another laborer and I joked about how it would be so awesome if we had some machine to do the lifting for us.  Boss overheard and told us about a machine he saw another company using that did that.  Cost 10 grand.  You could keep me working for over 900 hours with that cash, and I can do a lot more than pull a rope.

Robots just cost a lot and can only do one or two things.  Humans can work for cheap (minimum wage hurts that) and be trained and retrained for just about anything and are so much cheaper and easier to replace.  Robots also have expensive updates and bug fixes where humans only have the one well tested and trusted model.

But if you really think that they will, invest heavily in some robotics companies.  Human unemployment will then be irrelevant to you because you'll be rich.

[Ipquarx]

Flying cars? OH IN THE FUTURE GUYS!

http://youtu.be/JWh2qT9yiTo

being able to go at light speed? IN THE FUTURE GUYS!

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/01/nasas-star-trek-future-a-warp-drive-solution-for-faster-than-light-space-travel-a-2013-most-popular.html

escaping the event horizon? DEFINITELY ALL IN THE FUTURE

http://youtu.be/L8GCR88T3fE?t=30s

You know nothing.

Like, literally nothing. You have no idea what you're even talking about.

[WaterOre]

Robots just cost a lot and can only do one or two things.  Humans can work for cheap (minimum wage hurts that) and be trained and retrained for just about anything and are so much cheaper and easier to replace.  Robots also have expensive updates and bug fixes where humans only have the one model.

The expensive updates and bug fixes are a valid point, but the video mentioned the Baxter robot, which is cheap when compared to other robots, and can be trained to do nearly any human job.

[Qwepir]

some jobs require human interaction and thinking. robots cant do that and NEVER will, no matter how much time passes and tech advances. replicating a brain by artificial means is not possible

The dumbest post on the forums right now. Deny it all you want, it's happening eventually.

[Blockzillahead]

The dumbest post on the forums right now. Deny it all you want, it's happening eventually.

reality says otherwise

[Qwepir]

reality says otherwise

No, no it doesn't, unless you're referring to us being unable to perfectly recreate the brain at this specific point in time and are under the (hilariously misguided) impression that we have already learned all there is to learn. Whenever you say "oh, [insert scientific breakthrough] will NEVER happen" it is almost 100% guaranteed that you will look like a loving mongoloid at some point after that. Just ask that writer at TIME magazine who was oh-so-sure that a rocket will NEVER leave the atmosphere, or Napoleon, who thought the idea of steam power to be "nonsense".

[Blockzillahead]

except we have a line drawn between possible and impossible. "in the future" doesnt justify erasing this line
id like to be proven wrong, that replicating a human brain artificially is in fact possible

[Plethora]

The expensive updates and bug fixes are a valid point, but the video mentioned the Baxter robot, which is cheap when compared to other robots, and can be trained to do nearly any human job.

Valid point.
Still, cheap compared to other robots =/= actually cheap.
You could hire like a zillion illegal immigrants for the cost of just about any given robot.

Also, your chances of a human malfunctioning are much lower than that of a robot doing so.

Might robots and computers take over thinking type jobs with some oversight by humans?  Yes.  Will they take over manual and skilled labor?  Doubtful.

[Harm94]

except we have a line drawn between possible and impossible. "in the future" doesnt justify erasing this line
id like to be proven wrong, that replicating a human brain artificially is in fact possible

Remember when Bill Gates said " "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."

Boy was he wrong.

[HellHound]

I can see robots replacing most manual labor. Skilled labor is doubtful to me.

[Qwepir]

Remember when Bill Gates said " "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."

Boy was he wrong.

and when boeing slapped together a plane that held 10 people and said "There will NEVER be a plane bigger than this!"

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No, you. You have drawn a line that says "this is impossible".