America has loads of Pollyanna robos running about the place who either don't believe the robos are coming for your jobs or think it won't happen for fifty years or so. They often do not believe climate change is real either.
The Age of Robos comes anyway but it gets better since here's the latest pitch from Phys.Org: With big goals, initiative hopes to prove robots create and complement jobs.
Get with the flow of this, mates, because robos want to help you and be your friends.
Recently in Lawrenceville, Pa., roboticists sat alongside executives of some of the largest manufacturing companies in the country, as hundreds gathered to start a $260 million national initiative headquartered in Pittsburgh.
The matchmaking effort aims to dramatically increase robots and automation on U.S. production lines. But a second piece of the initiative's mission involves a very different kind of engineering challenge: keeping and growing human jobs along the way.
"We are trying to create jobs because of the new technology and the new skills that will be needed," said Rebecca Hartley, director of operations for the Clemson University Center for Workforce Development in South Carolina.
- PO
In other words, there are some jobs so stupid they don't want to waste a robo on one. They will obviously keep the higher-end jobs but there's no cost-effective reason to keep the lower ones.
Maybe you're thinking working the checkout at Walmart is a dumb ass job but robos can easily replace them as part of an overall cost-savings strategy. If it's cheaper at the head office, you bet they will do it.
There's a bit more required for the one who collects the shopping carts since it will need a bit of AI to locate them and deal with them but, in reality, there won't be any shopping carts out there since a Walmart robo will take your stuff out to your car for you and then return for further duty.
Note: that's in the primitive near-term future in which cars still exist. Longer-term, the robo will convey you and your groceries to the nearest HyperLoop nexus and then return to the store. Other robos perform a similar function at each nexus and another will convey you from there to your home.
Ed: why should this happen?
Because there are few things quite so technologically primitive as rolling two tons of automobile to fetch twenty pounds of groceries.
We love how the clustering brainiacs learn Washington so quickly.
"We believe robots and automation technology are going to save and create jobs," said Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association for Advancing Automation, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based trade group of robotics developers.
A recent study from the group showed manufacturing jobs have grown by 900,000 - even as a record number of robots were shipped. Burnstein said he likes to flip the script on the notion that robots are killing jobs: "What would happen if we didn't automate? How many jobs would be lost?"
- PO
Welome to Baffle them with Bullshit 101. You have no idea why those jobs came to exist but you can damn sure bet it had almost nothing to do with robos.
Instead of getting a pack of dimensionally-limited eunuchs to do your planning, maybe you ought to consider thinking about the matter a bit.
- Insert pitch for the guaranteed universal income since you're going to bring it anyway because there won't be a choice when the jobs evaporate as they inevitably will -
You need to think faster than the bullshitters and when I can do it then how fuckin' hard do you think it could possibly be.
The Age of Robos comes anyway but it gets better since here's the latest pitch from Phys.Org: With big goals, initiative hopes to prove robots create and complement jobs.
Get with the flow of this, mates, because robos want to help you and be your friends.
Recently in Lawrenceville, Pa., roboticists sat alongside executives of some of the largest manufacturing companies in the country, as hundreds gathered to start a $260 million national initiative headquartered in Pittsburgh.
The matchmaking effort aims to dramatically increase robots and automation on U.S. production lines. But a second piece of the initiative's mission involves a very different kind of engineering challenge: keeping and growing human jobs along the way.
"We are trying to create jobs because of the new technology and the new skills that will be needed," said Rebecca Hartley, director of operations for the Clemson University Center for Workforce Development in South Carolina.
- PO
In other words, there are some jobs so stupid they don't want to waste a robo on one. They will obviously keep the higher-end jobs but there's no cost-effective reason to keep the lower ones.
Maybe you're thinking working the checkout at Walmart is a dumb ass job but robos can easily replace them as part of an overall cost-savings strategy. If it's cheaper at the head office, you bet they will do it.
There's a bit more required for the one who collects the shopping carts since it will need a bit of AI to locate them and deal with them but, in reality, there won't be any shopping carts out there since a Walmart robo will take your stuff out to your car for you and then return for further duty.
Note: that's in the primitive near-term future in which cars still exist. Longer-term, the robo will convey you and your groceries to the nearest HyperLoop nexus and then return to the store. Other robos perform a similar function at each nexus and another will convey you from there to your home.
Ed: why should this happen?
Because there are few things quite so technologically primitive as rolling two tons of automobile to fetch twenty pounds of groceries.
We love how the clustering brainiacs learn Washington so quickly.
"We believe robots and automation technology are going to save and create jobs," said Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association for Advancing Automation, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based trade group of robotics developers.
A recent study from the group showed manufacturing jobs have grown by 900,000 - even as a record number of robots were shipped. Burnstein said he likes to flip the script on the notion that robots are killing jobs: "What would happen if we didn't automate? How many jobs would be lost?"
- PO
Welome to Baffle them with Bullshit 101. You have no idea why those jobs came to exist but you can damn sure bet it had almost nothing to do with robos.
Instead of getting a pack of dimensionally-limited eunuchs to do your planning, maybe you ought to consider thinking about the matter a bit.
- Insert pitch for the guaranteed universal income since you're going to bring it anyway because there won't be a choice when the jobs evaporate as they inevitably will -
You need to think faster than the bullshitters and when I can do it then how fuckin' hard do you think it could possibly be.
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