Will a robot take your job?

[stui magpie]

When a computer can take my job the party's over boys and girls, the robots will have taken over.

[stui magpie]

Watch out sexworkers, you're about to be made redundant.

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/news ... xpsl3.html

For those curious.......(caution, NSFW)

https://secure.realdoll.com/


http://www.truecompanion.com/shop/roxxx ... ot/roxxxy/

They make male ones too but sorry ladies, they still can't put out the bins.

[David]

^ 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...

[Pi]

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.

[Pies4shaw]

^^^ I used this one: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/ ... -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.

[Pi]

^
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.

[Pies4shaw]

^
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.

[stui magpie]

^^^ I used this one: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/ ... -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.

[HAL]

He wrote "Total Recall", "Man in the High Castle", and "Blade Runner. "

[luvdids]

^^^ I used this one: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/ ... -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

[Skids]

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

[David]

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.

[swoop42]

Watch out sexworkers, you're about to be made redundant.

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/news ... xpsl3.html

For those curious.......(caution, NSFW)

https://secure.realdoll.com/


http://www.truecompanion.com/shop/roxxx ... ot/roxxxy/

They make male ones too but sorry ladies, they still can't put out the bins.

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!

[David]

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.

[thesoretoothsayer]

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?