Robots are invading ?

[Ace-Garageguy]

47 minutes ago, peteski said:

Yes, but it is very shortsighted (by those greedy executives replacing humans with robots).  If we make humans obsolete, nobody will be buying the products those robots manufacture. Plus, who will fix them if they break.

Who will fix them if they break? Simple. A smarter, more productive class of human than the one sweeping the floor and standing around the rest of the time.

There's always several things to consider. US car manufacturers, for instance, replaced assembly-line humans in large part because the greedy unions wanted more and more and more money for doing less and less work, and doing it poorly. One reason US car quality got to be so nasty (1/4 inch gaps between panels were completely acceptable in the '70s on many US automobiles; half of that is common today on robot-assembled cars), was the slipshod approach to building them on the part of assembly workers, too.

The thing is, sadly, it's not that humans CAN'T do as good a job building cars as robots...it's just that, for the most part, they WON'T.

But there are already MANY things that machines do vastly better than humans...so why not let them do boring menial and repetitive tasks that they will do all day long with no complaints, and encourage humans to aspire to do something more satisfying?

[peteski]

4 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

hing is, sadly, it's not that humans CAN'T do as good a job building cars as robots...it's just that, for the most part, they WON'T.

But there are already MANY things that machines do vastly better than humans...so why not let them do boring menial and repetitive tasks that they will do all day long with no complaints, and encourage humans to aspire to do something more satisfying?

If every physically and mentally fit human being is capable of doing something "more satisfying", then great.  But I have feeling that not all humans fit that mold.  Plus , I much rather speak to a human operator when I call some company, rather than going through a large tree of stupid "artificial intelligence" computer menus. Give me a human being please!

Only the time will tell how this new paradigm works out.

Edited September 4, 2019 by peteski

[NYLIBUD]

Yea well I knew something wasn’t good at stores,and that’s when self check out came out awhile ago.A lot of people lost their jobs....Robots one,humans, zero...??

[Atmobil]

Here is a video showing a robot that has been used at our local hospital for almost 15 years now:

 

[madhorseman]

On 9/3/2019 at 8:22 PM, peteski said:

Yes, but it is very shortsighted (by those greedy executives replacing humans with robots).  If we make humans obsolete, nobody will be buying the products those robots manufacture. Plus, who will fix them if they break.

I would think they also have robots that make repairs.

[JollySipper]

What about the insect sized "robots" that the guv'ment uses for spying purposes?

[peteski]

On 9/5/2019 at 8:15 PM, madhorseman said:

I would think they also have robots that make repairs.

Who will fix the repair robots which repair the repair robots, which fix the repair robots?

[peteski]

On 9/6/2019 at 11:05 AM, JollySipper said:

What about the insect sized "robots" that the guv'ment uses for spying purposes?

How about nano-bots which will travel in your bloodstream, performing medical procedures?