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pietillidie
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| BBC wrote: | Type your job title into the search box below to find out the likelihood that it could be automated within the next two decades.
About 35% of current jobs in the UK are at high risk of computerisation over the following 20 years, according to a study by researchers at Oxford University and Deloitte. |
To find out, use the search box or list on this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34066941
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| BBC Providing Extra Information wrote: | Sources
'The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to automation'. Data supplied by Michael Osborne and Carl Frey, from Oxford University's Martin School. Figures on UK job numbers and average wages from the Office for National Statistics and Deloitte UK.
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
http://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/growth/articles/from-brawn-to-brains--the-impact-of-technology-on-jobs-in-the-u.html
Methodology
Oxford University academics Michael Osborne and Carl Frey calculated how susceptible to automation each job is based on nine key skills required to perform it; social perceptiveness, negotiation, persuasion, assisting and caring for others, originality, fine arts, finger dexterity, manual dexterity and the need to work in a cramped work space.
The research was originally carried out using detailed job data from the United States O*NET employment database. The analysis for UK jobs was made by adapting the findings to corresponding occupations in the UK based on Office for National Statistics job classifications. For the purpose of the UK study, some US occupations were merged. In these cases, the probabilities were calculated as weighted averages of the probabilities of automation for each US occupation within the group.
Some job names have been edited for clarity. Where average salary has been mentioned, the median has been used. Figures are not available for occupations in the military, or for politicians.
*Where two jobs have the same figure for their risk of automation but are ranked differently this is because the data goes to more than one decimal place. |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34066941
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Skids 
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I'd like to see a robot fix a blocked drain, dig a trench and lay a drain, install a hot water unit...... not guna happen in the next couple of centuries, let alon decades 😁
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pietillidie
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^That's way too confident, Nostradamus!
It's not my field, but surely all kinds of changes from major infrastructure overhauls, to different building materials, construction processes, sensor systems, chemical control systems, microbots, and so on, could radically change any of those.
And, what is more, you didn't even bother to look at the research!
Here's their guesstimation: http://magpies.net/nick/bb/files/plumbers-1.jpg |
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Lazza
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Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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If they can be Social Workers and deal with the people I have to deal with on a daily basis, I say, come on down, the job is yours!!
Although what will be really funny is to watch how these real robots cope with the human robots at places like Centrelink!! That will be a hoot! 
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Skids
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Can't happen. Homeowner calls "My toilets blocked"
Robot getsin vehicle and travels to house, asseses situation (every blockage is different) pulls up pavers and digs hole to access drain (yeah rite) 😂, uses appropriate tool to clear drain (robot has all the gear in vehicle of course). Tests once fixed (could be a broken drain & need further investigation), fills in hole and replaces pavers. Completes invoice and recieves payment. Awaits next mission. No phurken way!
Just having this vision of a dozen maintenance plumber robots getting their jobs in the morning and all heading off to work in their vans 😂😂😂
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whos gunna fix the robots?
or the robots that fix the robots?
or the robots that fix the robots that fix the robots?
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pietillidie
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| Skids wrote: | Can't happen. Homeowner calls "My toilets blocked"
Robot getsin vehicle and travels to house, asseses situation (every blockage is different) pulls up pavers and digs hole to access drain (yeah rite) 😂, uses appropriate tool to clear drain (robot has all the gear in vehicle of course). Tests once fixed (could be a broken drain & need further investigation), fills in hole and replaces pavers. Completes invoice and recieves payment. Awaits next mission. No phurken way!
Just having this vision of a dozen maintenance plumber robots getting their jobs in the morning and all heading off to work in their vans 😂😂😂 |
I'm not saying it *will* happen, but that sounds a bit like thinking a few decades ago that typists will only be replaced if someone makes a robotic typist that can sit in a chair, chat with the boss, read his handwriting, tap away on an old Triumph Adler, and apply Wite Out as required.
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Culprit
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| One word "Skynet" |
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| What's your favourite science fiction book? |
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ronrat
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They were going to try it with robot soccer players because they were a lot cheaper. But the trials were stuffed because the ones made in Italy kept falling over and Spanish and English ones went on strike for more money.
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Tannin 
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A robot couldn't do my job. It doesn't pay enough.
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Hopefully - cause no-one else seems to want it - not that I blame them!!!!
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pietillidie
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David
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Great stuff, PTID. Time for humans to specialise, I say.
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