Japanese company replaces office workers with artificial intelligence - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Dantz Bolrew;51627594]And constantly be ostracized by family and others because they don't have a job and any money.[/QUOTE] And probably driven to suicide, it's all too common in Japan that older workers commit suicide since it's not easy to find a job being older

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;51627823]And probably driven to suicide, it's all too common in Japan that older workers commit suicide since it's not easy to find a job being older[/QUOTE] I kinda wanted to add that but thought it was a little too stereotypical. I already had shunning others for being different :v:

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51627397]We're going to reach the point where the only job left a robot can't perform is reality television star. Have fun future humanity, hopefully I'm long dead before we reach that point :v: [editline]5th January 2017[/editline] I foresee a neo-Luddite movement in the future.[/QUOTE] [img]http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/undertale/images/5/58/Mettaton.gif/revision/latest?cb=20151111052225[/img]

[QUOTE=Chickens!;51627427]If all the work is done by robots, there's nothing left for people to do but enjoy life.[/QUOTE] What if all you enjoyed in life was work?

Butlerian Jihad when?

[QUOTE=Amakir;51628073]What if all you enjoyed in life was work?[/QUOTE] To be honest, at least for me that is what makes my life fun. I enjoy working on programming and I also enjoy the challenges that come upon me when I do program or partake in some sort of hobby or work. Without the challenge/work wouldn't life just be a bit bland? And considering programming will eventually be taken over by AI, my work/hobby is completely useless if I cant share something new to the world that a robot could finish in a few seconds.

[QUOTE=Orkel;51627441]There's still those that build and maintain the robots. Unless the robots are the ones building more robots, at which point I'd be a bit worried.[/QUOTE] sorry but how many people do you think it takes to maintain a fleet of industrial robots? answer: not a lot

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51627397]We're going to reach the point where the only job left a robot can't perform is reality television star. Have fun future humanity, hopefully I'm long dead before we reach that point :v: [editline]5th January 2017[/editline] I foresee a neo-Luddite movement in the future.[/QUOTE] Watson has already been on game shows. Maybe reality TV is the next step.

[QUOTE=Orkel;51627441]There's still those that build and maintain the robots. Unless the robots are the ones building more robots, at which point I'd be a bit worried.[/QUOTE] Robots are already building robots to an extent. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k91CQvBHvb4[/media]

[QUOTE=Apollo2947;51627411]More reason that we'll start to see universal incomes pop up. I could see UIs in the US in our lifetime.[/QUOTE] Ahahah. No. The US will have luddite riots and forced labour camps(We already have for-profit prisons and arrest quotas so it's not a huge stretch) for the poor/unemployed before it has UI. This is a country that blames poverty entirely on "being lazy" and elected a corrupt as shit conman to the most powerful public office in the nation. Maybe if you live to 2100 you'll see it but good luck with the way the US is going, you'll need to be able to afford some pretty expensive private health care for that one.

[QUOTE=Shadow801;51627444]What if humanity dies out via disease, but the whole world is automated by AI and continues to operate for millions of years (granted we find a renewable energy source). I wonder if other animal species would eventually evolve enough to start taking advantage of our AI tech, even if they don't know how it works or what it is. Apes getting in self driving cars for example[/QUOTE] Crysis but with apes and dolphins. And ravens which one of them will be the north korean equivalent

[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;51628891]Ahahah. No. The US will have luddite riots and [B]forced labour camps[/B](We already have for-profit prisons and arrest quotas so it's not a huge stretch) for the poor/unemployed before it has UI.[/QUOTE] [I]Unemployment Reduction Act of 2032[/I] I could totally see that being a thing with how our attitudes toward the poor are.

As someone who works in insurance, fuck this.

Machine Learning grad student here. Feeling pretty safe here :trumpet::trumpet:

People seem to forget Japan has a rapidly shrinking population, whilst the job market is not. Regardless of age it's not TOO difficult to find a job here either unless you've never completed high school which disqualifies you for most jobs anyway.

[QUOTE=Zero-Point;51628836]Robots are already building robots to an extent. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k91CQvBHvb4[/media][/QUOTE] But who builds the robots who build the robots? (also those are some sick 90s synth jams)

[QUOTE=Talishmar;51631872]But who builds the robots who build the robots? (also those are some sick 90s synth jams)[/QUOTE] People are confusing designing and producing a robot with assembling a robot. Robots assemble robots. Robots don't design robots (yet).

[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;51628891]Ahahah. No. The US will have luddite riots and forced labour camps(We already have for-profit prisons and arrest quotas so it's not a huge stretch) for the poor/unemployed before it has UI. This is a country that blames poverty entirely on "being lazy" and elected a corrupt as shit conman to the most powerful public office in the nation. Maybe if you live to 2100 you'll see it but good luck with the way the US is going, you'll need to be able to afford some pretty expensive private health care for that one.[/QUOTE] I don't even think the U.S is going to last to 2100. But yeah I see it more likely that the government is going to try exterminating the poor and unemployed before they even thinking about adopting something like UI and even then some of the states will fight it tooth and nail.

While I am impressed by this, it would be ironical if I was replaced by Watson AI (I am software engineer in IBM, I use Watson AI but I don't develop it), I would not be impressed then....