The cry of 'The Robots Are Coming' is not uncommon on Ithaka and here's another one because China is running a show featuring robots. (Seattle Times: Robots at center of China’s strategy to leapfrog rivals)
Eventually someone will grok I'm not joshing with this material, particularly after a steady stream of varied sources with all saying generally the same thing, that robots are getting vastly more functional than the old Japanese sexbots which now, we suppose, will be relegated to roles as nothing more than comfort 'bots to the workers.
(Ed: aren't they now?)
Unknown how many workers can afford a ten-thousand dollar sexbot but I mean comfort 'bots to the other 'bots. They had hoped so much more (sob).
The title is a play on a movie starring Alan Arkin, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," which was a comical satire of the Cold War as the Russians did come ... and comedy ensued.
Mostly I will mightily assail fortune telling in the news but the decline in availability of human jobs is inevitable in the Age of 'Bots and one which is easily 'bot is a whole new generation of Chatty Cathy dolls but now they're 'bots with AI and they work in the call centers, easily surpassing most humans who do it because, get this, they sound like they enjoy solving your problem.
The call center humans come into it when the current simplebot front-end (i.e. Push 1 for Useless Help, Push 2 for Meaningless Help, etc). The Chatty Cathy 'bots will replace all of that and will eliminate the mechano front-end with the human voice. With Chatty Cathy, that voice will have AI behind it and this is where the Turing Test comes into it. Can you tell if the 'bot is a human or a machine and in this example it's likely to be difficult.
Note: if you doubt my knowledge on the matter, tell me about Periphonics voice systems in the eighties and how they seemed miraculous even if a bitch to program back then but they're just annoying nuisances in current times. The individual snippets of recorded voices are obvious but consider the scripts to ensure they're all linked properly and that's what Periphonics did.
It's now thirty years or more later and just maybe it needs to evolve and it will because the corporation will always go for the most inexpensive solution.
From the China show, you can see the robots are rapidly diversifying and many specifically toward meeting manufacturing opportunities. Workers at Boeing are not likely to be seriously threatened or at least not yet but those assembling iPhones are already being displaced by robots and China shows there is aggressive pursuit of robots with greater sophistication.
China is showcasing its burgeoning robot industry at the five-day exhibition in Beijing, part of a national effort to promote use of more advanced technologies in Chinese factories and create high-end products that redefine the meaning of “Made in China.”
Apart from the cool factor, China’s sweeping plans to upgrade its factories and production lines depend on building and better using advanced robots. Automation is crucial for industries facing rising labor costs and slowing growth in the work force thanks to the “one-child” policy era and aging of the population.
Eventually someone will grok I'm not joshing with this material, particularly after a steady stream of varied sources with all saying generally the same thing, that robots are getting vastly more functional than the old Japanese sexbots which now, we suppose, will be relegated to roles as nothing more than comfort 'bots to the workers.
(Ed: aren't they now?)
Unknown how many workers can afford a ten-thousand dollar sexbot but I mean comfort 'bots to the other 'bots. They had hoped so much more (sob).
The title is a play on a movie starring Alan Arkin, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," which was a comical satire of the Cold War as the Russians did come ... and comedy ensued.
Mostly I will mightily assail fortune telling in the news but the decline in availability of human jobs is inevitable in the Age of 'Bots and one which is easily 'bot is a whole new generation of Chatty Cathy dolls but now they're 'bots with AI and they work in the call centers, easily surpassing most humans who do it because, get this, they sound like they enjoy solving your problem.
The call center humans come into it when the current simplebot front-end (i.e. Push 1 for Useless Help, Push 2 for Meaningless Help, etc). The Chatty Cathy 'bots will replace all of that and will eliminate the mechano front-end with the human voice. With Chatty Cathy, that voice will have AI behind it and this is where the Turing Test comes into it. Can you tell if the 'bot is a human or a machine and in this example it's likely to be difficult.
Note: if you doubt my knowledge on the matter, tell me about Periphonics voice systems in the eighties and how they seemed miraculous even if a bitch to program back then but they're just annoying nuisances in current times. The individual snippets of recorded voices are obvious but consider the scripts to ensure they're all linked properly and that's what Periphonics did.
It's now thirty years or more later and just maybe it needs to evolve and it will because the corporation will always go for the most inexpensive solution.
From the China show, you can see the robots are rapidly diversifying and many specifically toward meeting manufacturing opportunities. Workers at Boeing are not likely to be seriously threatened or at least not yet but those assembling iPhones are already being displaced by robots and China shows there is aggressive pursuit of robots with greater sophistication.
China is showcasing its burgeoning robot industry at the five-day exhibition in Beijing, part of a national effort to promote use of more advanced technologies in Chinese factories and create high-end products that redefine the meaning of “Made in China.”
Apart from the cool factor, China’s sweeping plans to upgrade its factories and production lines depend on building and better using advanced robots. Automation is crucial for industries facing rising labor costs and slowing growth in the work force thanks to the “one-child” policy era and aging of the population.
- AP via Seattle Times
They're not screwing around and any successful and economical solution they create will inevitably be sucked up for similar manufacturing centers globally. It doesn't seem any particular clairvoyance is necessary for this when they're conducting shows to herald it.
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