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- 2. Physical Labor ◦ Humanssmartly lazy made tools to make work easier ◦ Replacing humans with machines how economies grow specialization occurs ◦ Mechanical minds humans minds less in demand ◦ General-purpose computers becoming in demand for tasks ◦ Robots becoming cheaper and faster ◦ Mechanical minds outcompeting humans for jobs
- 3. Luddite Horses ◦ Manyhumans equal many horses having jobs ◦ Similarly, the opposite is true for technology and humans ◦ Better technology makes better jobs for humans ◦ Mechanical minds will push humans out of the economy ◦ Technology gets better cheaper and faster at rates biology cant match ◦ Car beginning and end for horse show us the shape of things to come
- 4. Automobiles ◦ Self-driving carsare not the future they are here and work ◦ Question not on if the replacement of cars but how quickly ◦ Not need perfection but better than humans ◦ USA 40 deaths/year caused by human drivers ◦ Millions of jobs to be replaced by autos ◦ Economics always wins workers always lose
- 5. The Shape ofThings to Come ◦ Technology has always gotten rid low skilled jobs unwanted by humans ◦ Software bots are intangible faster and cheaper than physical robots ◦ Incentive to automate white-collar jobs greater ◦ Programmers writing bots that teach themselves what programmers cannot teach ◦ Stock market now robotized, stocks exchanged by robots themselves
- 6. Professional Bots ◦ Cost,time, and accuracy of bots beat humans ◦ IBMS Watson’s first robot medical advice (doctor bot) ◦ Human doctors learn through experience doctor bots learn from everything available ◦ GP replaced by doctor bots ◦ Professionals, White Collar Workers and Low- skill workers in trouble
- 7. Creative Bots ◦ Simulationof brain ◦ Mechanical muscles allowed movement into thinking jobs ◦ Mechanical minds allows us to move to creative work ◦ Robots composing poetry and art ◦ Emily Howell robot in which composes music cannot tell difference
- 8. Conclusions ◦ Robots arehere to stay ◦ Large amount of working automations in labs and warehouses around world ◦ Robot revolution horses didn’t go out of work due to laziness ◦ They are unemployable ◦ Similarly with humans ◦ There are new kinds of jobs but are not significant part of jobs
- 9. Conclusion ◦ Automation isinevitable ◦ Tool to produce abundance for little effort ◦ Start thinking now what to do when large sections of population are unemployable ◦ What to do in future where Humans Need not Apply
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