AI & robots will replace all jobs?

If AI and robotics takes all of our jobs, then where will these companies get their money?

Japan refuses to erase themselves with foreigners , but with their shrinking birth rate they need new ways to get work done. So they've turned some work over to robot-like machines controlled remotely by contract workers in the Philippines.

In B4 Mingo

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If AI and robotics takes all of our jobs, then where will these companies get their money?

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That’s what I never get about this bullshite. Who’s AI selling groceries to when people don’t have money to buy them? Who are they building apartments for, selling insurance and liquor to, and pushing time-shares on? None of this works without UBI, which honestly sounds pretty fricking good, but then what?

AI’s doing all the work and humans just sit around collecting checks, growing fatter, needing housing, food, entertainment, finite natural resources, more medical care. What’s the actual drive behind the system? The only output is people consuming food, housing, clothes, medicine, whatever. That’s unjustified cost from the AI’s point of view.

The only way it works is if both sides benefit in very close equilibrium. Humans create something AI values that we are uniquely or especially adapted to providing, and AI creates something humans value, which it seems very likely it will be capable of. Without almost perfect balance, both become an immediate threat to each other’s existence.

If it tips too far in either direction, I don’t think the side doing all the others fricking work is going to be the loser.

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That’s what I never get about this bullshite. Who’s AI selling groceries to when people don’t have money to buy them? Who are they building apartments for, selling insurance and liquor to, and pushing time-shares on? None of this works without UBI, which honestly sounds pretty fricking good, but then what?

AI’s doing all the work and humans just sit around collecting checks, growing fatter, needing housing, food, entertainment, finite natural resources, more medical care. What’s the actual drive behind the system? The only output is people consuming food, housing, clothes, medicine, whatever. That’s unjustified cost from the AI’s point of view.

The only way it works is if both sides benefit in very close equilibrium. Humans create something AI values that we are uniquely or especially adapted to providing, and AI creates something humans value, which it seems very likely it will be capable of. Without almost perfect balance, both become an immediate threat to each other’s existence.

If it tips too far in either direction, I don’t think the side doing all the others fricking work is going to be the loser.

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You raise interesting points / questions.

The next 10 years are going to be very interesting.

I just retired, but before I did, I was working on an AI-based project to transform a contact center. A lot of agent and lower-level manager jobs will be eliminated by it.

The good news is that you will no longer have to speak with an agent who is not a native English speaker. You'll be talking to an AI voice, but you won't know it. It will be able to converse with you just like a human.

Going to enjoy my retirement while I can, because the world might become a much less enjoyable place once the unemployment rate climbs into double digits.

No. How will AI and a robot repair an outboard engine?

UBI

Take away the need for a human, that human's life becomes worth zero.

Take a look at your nearest housing project or subsidized apartment complex to see how well that "universal income" will work out for you.

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UBI

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lol

2020 was an experiment on UBI and people being at home. How did that go?