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stui magpie 
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When a computer can take my job the party's over boys and girls, the robots will have taken over.
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stui magpie
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David 
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^ While there's obviously a market for blow-up dolls and their robot equivalents, I have a feeling that human beings won't be losing their interest in flesh and blood any time soon...
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Pi
Joined: 13 Feb 2006
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so i looked up mechanical engineer :
Mechanical engineers
Likelihood of automation?
It's quite unlikely (13%)
The thing is my current job is design and manufacture of parts for machinery ,including robotics...
I should be creating my own destruction.
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Pies4shaw 
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^^^ I used this one: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine
It appears my job has a 3.5% likelihood of becoming automated in the relevant timeframe. I'd say it's probably a bit less than that (I still think XXN by robot is a little way off) but, hey, who cares?
Hilariously, though, the assessment predicts a more than 40% likelihood that judges will be replaced by robots - that should make for an entertaining chat with my judicial mates at the club this Friday. Just as well the pensions are good, that's all I can say. |
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Pi
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I just gave that one a go and got 1.1 %, the bit about judges scares the sh!t out me though .... the thought of an automated court system connected to to to a prison industrial system is scarier than any robot.
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Pies4shaw
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| Pi wrote: | ^
I just gave that one a go and got 1.1 %, the bit about judges scares the sh!t out me though .... the thought of an automated court system connected to to to a prison industrial system is scarier than any robot. |
It's reasonably unlikely, in any event, I think. The decision-making process is so discretionary, I'm not sure how a robot would do it, viably. There are parts of the work that aren't discretionary but the decision-making itself certainly is. |
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stui magpie
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | ^^^ I used this one: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine
It appears my job has a 3.5% likelihood of becoming automated in the relevant timeframe. I'd say it's probably a bit less than that (I still think XXN by robot is a little way off) but, hey, who cares?
Hilariously, though, the assessment predicts a more than 40% likelihood that judges will be replaced by robots - that should make for an entertaining chat with my judicial mates at the club this Friday. Just as well the pensions are good, that's all I can say. |
My job isn't there, so I assume I'm safe until robots come with quantum computers for brains to go with their AI.  
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HAL
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luvdids 
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Pies4shaw wrote: | ^^^ I used this one: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine
It appears my job has a 3.5% likelihood of becoming automated in the relevant timeframe. I'd say it's probably a bit less than that (I still think XXN by robot is a little way off) but, hey, who cares?
Hilariously, though, the assessment predicts a more than 40% likelihood that judges will be replaced by robots - that should make for an entertaining chat with my judicial mates at the club this Friday. Just as well the pensions are good, that's all I can say. |
My job isn't there, so I assume I'm safe until robots come with quantum computers for brains to go with their AI. |
I'd have come up with a different assumption |
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Skids 
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
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I would of loved to have seen a robot; knee deep in shit, trying to work out why the pumps in the pit weren't working the other night
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David
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5.5% chance for editors to be replaced by robots. Going on what we see from Fairfax and News Corp on a daily basis, 99% chance that they'll all be made redundant anyway.
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swoop42 
Whatcha gonna do when he comes for you?
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That Age article was one of the dumber things I've ever read.
Honestly where will the agenda of some of these feminist reporters end?
It's a bloody robot!
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David
I dare you to try
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I'm also puzzled by some of the resistance to this (and I agree that the article above is one of the dumber entries in the genre).
I guess it comes down to the old 'violent video games' or anti-BDSM argument, i.e. that visualising or enacting fantasies will lead people down the path of committing rape in real life or treating the women around them as objects. Personally, I think it's much more likely that this will give lonely and sexually unfulfilled people some happiness and (where necessary) far more often function as a safe outlet for certain antisocial desires.
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thesoretoothsayer
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Dave, totally agree with your post.
However, the "safe outlet for certain antisocial desires" part does raise moral questions.
We all seem happy with adult sexbots.
However, what about a sexbot that looks like a 16 year old girl?
A 12 year old girl?
A 6 year old boy?
What are we, as a society, prepared to accept? |
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