LogFAQs > #952422451

Revelation34 posted...

Everything won't be fully automated in 10 years.

Enough of it will be that you'll notice and be impacted by it.

Like, self-driving cars are a technology that exists today. That's not future tech, that's something that exists and is already on the road. The first automated buses have already been introduced on select routes in pilot cities. The first fully-automated long-haul truck delivery has also been done. The next step is going to be widespread rollout and costs dropping from economies of scale.

About 10% of the US workforce is employed in the transportation sector and the vast majority of those jobs can and will be destroyed by self-driving cars. And that will happen in years, not decades. People act like self-driving cars are still a conceptual thing, but they're not - they're real and they don't have to be perfect to replace humans, just better than us, and they're already there.

And that's just one piece of tech. Farmers are experimenting with automated harvesters to reduce their reliance on farm labourers. Newspapers employ programs to pre-write their articles, then just use a human editor to touch them up. Lawyers use algorithms for discovery, engineers have been programming pieces of their jobs into obsolescence for years, and medical workers are increasingly turning to AIs like Watson to help them in their job. We're even seeing robot artists and musicians producing artwork from automation.

And again, I hasten to add, none of this is future tech, it's all out there today. If you don't think change is in your near future, you are mistaken.

---

Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster.
Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!