Automate This! How A.I. technology could disrupt nearly half of all jobs - and international politic

[inanna]

Friday September 08, 2017

Want to know whether your job could be on the brink of automation? Try asking an artificially intelligent algorithm.

That's what Michael Osborne did back in 2013 — and the results were staggering.

Along with his colleagues, Osborne built an algorithm that predicted as many as 47 per cent of U.S. jobs could be susceptible to automation.

The algorithm didn't hold back from predicting the demise of high-paying, white-collar jobs — including, among others, accountants and economists.

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http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-354-miami-preps-for-irma-automating-your-job-the-safest-nfl-helmet-che-guevara-s-brother-and-more-1.4276099/automate-this-how-a-i-technology-could-disrupt-nearly-half-of-all-jobs-and-international-politics-1.4276126

[nycbos]

1. Pretty soon we will have something like this.

[Loki Liesmith]

2. Automation pushes marginal cost of production to zero

over time.


That should create enough wealth to fund a UBI and retraining.

[KPN]

5. Automation is a curse and a foil.

If automation is a primary reason for jobs decline, why is everything we buy manufactured in developing nations? Economic theory and reality are two different things. Because we can doesn't mean we will. How can we expect UBI when we must constantly fight to preserve SS and Medicare?

Automation needs to be taxed -- heavily.

[Loki Liesmith]

6. I'll fight hard against that

It'd cripple innovation.

You'd lose me and a lot of people like me as allies by doing that.

[KPN]

7. So be it.

[NBachers]

3. Let me know when an algorithm will come unclog my toilet or replace aged collapsed drain pipes.

Plumbing is one of those backbones of civilization. It can evolve, but human plumbers will always be necessary.

[BigmanPigman]

4. It is similar to the Industrial revolution

and the Tech Revolution of the 80s and 90s. Some jobs will never be able to be replaced while others will never come back. Photography destroyed the need for artist/portrait painters, etc. Mass production has replaced the need for skilled craftsmen, ....

New careers will emerge and be in demand and people will have to adjust as they have for centuries. Unfortunately many people in the US (like older white men) will not accept this fact and pass their unwillingness to accept reality onto the younger generations who still falsely believe that such jobs as coal production will make a comeback. There are new fields that will require more people such as in meteorology, insurance, and ophthalmology and of course technology.