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Kelvin Mace

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65. Really?

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:37 PM

Mar 2016

It's probably not even just fast food, as actual sit down restaurants can utilize robotics to replace their human employees and risk associated with them

I have seen one example of a robot which could make a single dish, in a specially constructed kitchen after a human had prepared all the ingredients and placed them in the correct containers. They claim it will be out someday and will cost $15,000. Colr me highly skeptical.

I rebut the claim at length here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027668039#post17

Also, there is a lot of risk with robots, and I don't know anyone who wants to blaze new frontiers of product liability laws when their new BurritoBot goes all ED-209 on someone's ass.

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This is why we are not about to be replaced by robots [View all] Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 OP

But they're getting closer everyday... PoliticAverse Mar 2016 #1

Yes, and Google is now selling that company Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #4

It seems Google is having difficulty integrating its AI with its physical robots... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #34

There are a number of problems that must be overcome Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #35

People in the future are going to laugh at our attempts in creating AI lumberjack_jeff Mar 2016 #43

And while it is easy to point to a 777 aircraft and say Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #45

Cool but google photos does that quite handily Egnever Mar 2016 #2

Yes, but Google relies on image TAGS Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #5

No it doesn't Egnever Mar 2016 #48

Yes, they are using tags Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #51

You are confusing a google image search with google photos Egnever Mar 2016 #52

It is still using pattern matching based on images linked to on the web Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #56

Again I don't think you are correct see the post below Egnever Mar 2016 #57

From a link inside your own popular mechanics article Egnever Mar 2016 #54

Key sentences from the article Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #62

Now you are quibbling Egnever Mar 2016 #76

Point is they CLAIM Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #77

Just take a step back to the progress between 1950 and now Albertoo Mar 2016 #3

Again, we underestimate what the human brain can do Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #6

Like often in discussion, it's all in the qualifiers Albertoo Mar 2016 #7

Absolutely true, Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #46

I fear you picked a bad example Albertoo Mar 2016 #49

I disagree. Google translate can simply convert words from one language to another Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #53

My dear Holmes, Watson proves you wrong Albertoo Mar 2016 #55

Actually, I addressed Watson Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #59

tsk, tsk, tsk, you keep moving the goalposts Albertoo Mar 2016 #61

My point in my original post was that Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #63

practical robots that will start taking people's jobs??? It started happening ages ago. Albertoo Mar 2016 #64

And yet, there are still travel agents Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #67

Yes, but far less Albertoo Mar 2016 #68

From my original post Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #69

Robots replaced humans in manufacturing even earlier Albertoo Mar 2016 #70

Do you see the robots in the video Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #71

We probably do not have a signiificant disagreement. It's just about words. Albertoo Mar 2016 #75

There is a reason Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are warning us about AI. killbotfactory Mar 2016 #11

Yes, Musk and Hawking are right to be woried about AIs, Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #13

It doesn't need to replace all human jobs, just some of them. Calista241 Mar 2016 #60

Really? Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #65

Yeah, I can see the future and it says Robots will get better faster Johonny Mar 2016 #18

"Faster" is a relative term Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #72

Good thing humans aren't affected by EMP. Deadshot Mar 2016 #29

Excellent pic Albertoo Mar 2016 #50

Robots won't replace human workers, but automation will. procon Mar 2016 #8

But automation can only do certain tasks within very well defined parameters Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #14

Just a wild guess, but your company's output has increased too perhaps? whatthehey Mar 2016 #31

Absolutely, Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #73

Automation is dramatically reducing the human labor required for many kinds of manufacturing. cheapdate Mar 2016 #9

Yes, it is happening, and will continue to happen Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #15

Automation is going to hit white collar workers next killbotfactory Mar 2016 #10

True, but of late Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #17

Humans don't have a halting issue. Rex Mar 2016 #12

Robots require power Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #16

True, it is curious how some simple tasks for humans are NPhard for a computer. Rex Mar 2016 #32

What computers can do is simple tasks at close to the speed of light. Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #36

Yes that is the crux of the problem, their ability to interpret important information Rex Mar 2016 #47

Tell that to Lee Sedol MowCowWhoHow III Mar 2016 #19

Golly, a computer they spent over a decade designing Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #23

It's pretty obvious you don't have a good grasp of the subject area MowCowWhoHow III Mar 2016 #24

Yes, I do. Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #38

Yes, much of our "knowledge" is embedded in our perceptual apparatus. bemildred Mar 2016 #20

I'm inclined to agree with you and I work in an industry that seems to be trying to replace me! A HERETIC I AM Mar 2016 #21

Precisely! Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #22

One thing about "Automatic braking"..... A HERETIC I AM Mar 2016 #25

You outline the other problem of innovation and automation Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #39

"the miracle of the human body" meme is mostly magical thinking phantom power Mar 2016 #26

I don't recall using the word "miracle" Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #40

You are being too literal. Humans have already been replaced "in vast quantities" by robots. ieoeja Mar 2016 #27

Actually what you are seeing there is more the result of outsourcing Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #74

For what it is worth, usedtobedemgurl Mar 2016 #28

Yes, you bring up the economics of the issue Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #44

The list of jobs not requiring visual identification of different objects is not small whatthehey Mar 2016 #30

Visual identification is just one aspect of a task Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #42

That's one area that human being excel in, but just because we excel at one doesn't mean... Humanist_Activist Mar 2016 #33

A would distinguish between warehouses Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #41

As long as they don't replace art teachers...n/t PasadenaTrudy Mar 2016 #37

FFS, you sound like the people in 1905 who said man flying was a century away..... Logical Mar 2016 #58

And as I point out Kelvin Mace Mar 2016 #66