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This is a very interesting article and an interesting company.
From SingularityHUB - "No longer will they say, “He’s going to end up flipping burgers.” Because now, robots are taking even these ignobly esteemed jobs. Alpha machine from Momentum Machines cooks up a tasty burger with all the fixins. And it does it with such quality and efficiency it’ll produce “gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.”
Cool, now to find a location where I can sell 360 hamburgers and hour :-)
To me this is more of job transference than job elimination. A successful venture would require an R&D team, robot manufacturers, robot salespersons and robot repairpersons. All more highly skilled jobs and susequently higher paying jobds than that the of flippers.
The people getting the robot service jobs will leave vacancies at desks, in gargages, in the field, thus eventually elevating the former flippers (based on their abilities and desire) to something better than being a flipper.
Everyone wins, me included. A robot won't 'tex' (sp. intentional) their friends while assembling my burger. A robot wont sneeze on my food, forget to wash their hands, or secrete some bodily fluid of their liking onto my burger, based on their intolerance for my race, creed, color, etc.
Google Adam Smith's pin factory for some unintended benefits of progress.
This is whats pushing people into service industry and away from regular jobs. Until we have robots that take care of grandma and grandpa.
We are going to face a crisis of automation sooner, rather then later. Its whats going to keep us ahead of china.
I have to agree.
I have wondered for years what would happen when robots become more sophisticated and enter the workplace. What would happen to the low-to-no-skill workers? If we have a problem with wealth inequality now, we haven't seen nothing yet.
I don't think even the best economist can predict what will happen.
I have wondered for years what would happen when robots become more sophisticated and enter the workplace. What would happen to the low-to-no-skill workers? If we have a problem with wealth inequality now, we haven't seen nothing yet.
I don't think even the best economist can predict what will happen.
The future, both exciting and scary.
and inevitable. It is going to be one heck of a roller coaster ride, for sure.
Cool, now to find a location where I can sell 360 hamburgers and hour :-)
To me this is more of job transference than job elimination. A successful venture would require an R&D team, robot manufacturers, robot salespersons and robot repairpersons. All more highly skilled jobs and susequently higher paying jobds than that the of flippers.
The people getting the robot service jobs will leave vacancies at desks, in gargages, in the field, thus eventually elevating the former flippers (based on their abilities and desire) to something better than being a flipper.
Everyone wins, me included. A robot won't 'tex' (sp. intentional) their friends while assembling my burger. A robot wont sneeze on my food, forget to wash their hands, or secrete some bodily fluid of their liking onto my burger, based on their intolerance for my race, creed, color, etc.
Google Adam Smith's pin factory for some unintended benefits of progress.
That's the thing. If the burger flipper can elevate, why not right now? Why wait until the robots come for his job.? That is what I fear, when these workers are made obsolete by these robots, not everyone is gonna just go back to school and pick up a better trade. If so, then why not right now?
But I do like your thought that the economy would become more beneficial and progressive (in the technical/technological sense, not the social/political one)
The robot is fated to take over all jobs... and liberals will grow up with no skills... while the conservatives learn to fix robots... the liberals then blame robots and conservatives and think they should be taxed extra to take care of liberals... wow... strangely this is already happening but without the robots...
We are going to face a crisis of automation sooner, rather then later. Its whats going to keep us ahead of china.
Yes, I've said it before. A capitalist society depends on people with money in their pockets. If they can't get a job who pays the guy to build the robot? When these robots can do every imaginable job there is including designing, building and fixing other robots what then? I really don't think that time is too far off in the future.
Watson, walking robots....
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