re: CEO warns AI will wipe out half of all entry level white collar jobs in 1-5 years

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You want to just let the greedy corporations just keep all the savings as profits and let billions of people starve in the streets?

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This is certainly the current trajectory.

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Name them. I can 100% guarantee a robot can't frame a house, insulate it, run plumbing and wires, roof it, and pour and float concrete in 30 years. Unless you have 1000 robots and even then I don't see it.

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You keep saying shite like this, and this is exactly what robotics is the best at. This is standardized non abstract process. I have a fricking robot vacuum that costs $150 that can learn where the shite is in my living room, you really don’t think we can make robots that can coordinate framing a house based on input specifications?

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Our country isn’t built to handle a 33% reduction in the workforce. Nor is UBI a cure.

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I agree. It’s not just going to be fast food workers, warehouse workers or manufacturing jobs. It’s going to hit the white collar office jobs also. That’s what people seem to ignore or don’t want to accept. I’m one of these people and know it’s coming. I hope to exit corporate job in 5 to 7 years before the shite hits the fan (and it will).

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Drilling rigs, XOM is already using one of Nabors.

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Drilling computers, Iron roughnecks and computerized tongs aren't taking jobs.

There's no robots coming to take jobs tomorrow. You telling me in 10 years we're going to have a fully automated drilling rig with no human personnel, only robots? That's fricking impossible. Not happening. Neither is robots painting, cleaning and blasting.

People are cheaper than robots.

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I have a fricking robot vacuum that costs $150 that can learn where the shite is in my living room, you really don’t think we can make robots that can coordinate framing a house based on input specifications

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It can learn yes, but it can't out vacuum a person with a Hoover, which is cheaper.

Nope. No robots will be framing houses. I can assure you. I'm talking about only robots. No human activities at all. It's not fricking happening in my lifetime. That's a fact.

It's not a stick house like most people want. Why are houses along the Gulf of America not made of concrete?

Find me a robot that will fly to my property, frame up for concrete, run pipe and electricity, frame house, insulate, roof and sheet rock, then paint and build custom cabinets.

My corpse won't exist before that happens.

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The Pirate King

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You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re describing 50yo SQL database systems, not AI.

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You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re describing 50yo SQL database systems, not AI.

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You haven't had any retort other than "durrr the AI thingy be learning stuff".

If you have all this knowledge about the secret sentient terminator AI that exists, please share with the class. Share one single AI that can learn, reason, adapt, and correctly apply history and context to a situation. You can't. They all require human programming and input to function. They're wholly incapable of doing anything original.

Even the robovacs mentioned earlier in this thread can't even adapt enough to not run over dog shite in its path and spread it all over the house.

Again, no centralized AI intelligence system exists.

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Optimus can watch YouTube videos … and based on that video, just like a human, can learn how to do that thing.”

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I'm as big of an Elon fan as anyone and this is complete BS. If anything, it may be able to mimic dance motions it sees via video capture, but nothing with any complexity and doubtful that it does it on its own without human intervention.