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Termyn8or -> RE: Experts predict when AI will surpass humans in all tasks (6/7/2017 12:47:26 AM)
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Yup, Capt., and those jobs are also going to give way to automation of course.
I am somewhat in the know about technology. With today's technology you can run a McDonald's with zero humans.
Working at McD's is not like being under Gordon Ramsay's wing. You know there is a certain amount of time it takes for that burger to be flipped, the deep frier beeps and you go and take the basket out of the oil. You are damnear reduced to an automaton right there. Filling drinks, sticking a few napkins in the bag. Collect and scan the money or the credit/debit card, print a receipt. Drivers come in and a staff of maybe two come in and load all the machines with patties, chicken breasts, couple other things of course.
What gets me is when they charge YOU to save themselves money. For example, I WILL NOT USE A SELF CHECKOUT. That eliminates jobs. So now you saved all that money and the one who should be here ringing up my stuff is on the street and you don't give a shit. Is that what you're telling me ?
Yeah Hymie, you might be twice as smart as most people but you ain't twice as smart as me. Unless you give me a rakeoff on the price I am using human resources to ring up my purchases. Take those self checkouts and make sure they don''t get a sunburn.
But in a way, people are going to go for the lower price and cutting labor costs is a big part of the overhead. McD's probably could lower prices and make more money. "AT FULLY AUTOMATED STORES ONLY" have some specials. And you know what our patriotic loyal Americans will do ? They will pocket the half a buck and happily sell us completely out, if it means saving like forty cents on EACH burger ! WOWEE !
But my point is that people will know that these stores with no employees cost jobs, they will still go there. Just like in the 1970s, when they went to Kmart and saw a good Zenith TV and a Sanyo knockoff on the shelf, instead of the American brand, they put the extra forty bucks in their pocket and bought the Sanyo. They spoke with the loudest voice the industry would ever hear, their wallets.
So the industry got the idea that a lower price sells, to the masses at least. And then we got that "It is easier to get a dollar out of a million people than to get a million dollars out of one". Thus, a trend was born.
There is an excellent old Outer Limits episode about this. I can't find it but if you know a paying member of hulu you can probably get it. You might get lucky and find it on the web, but it is copyrighted material and those links go dead as they are removed with a DMCA complaint. Far as I am concerned it was in public domain and I didn't se a check in the mail for my cut of this domain so it remains. Put me in jail. Let out a rapist to make room for me. To protect and serve WHAT exactly now ?
T^T
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