70% of occupations could become automated over next 30 years
Jan 22, 2014 1:40:17 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Jan 22, 2014 1:40:17 GMT -5
Is 2014 the year YOUR job will be taken by a robot? 'Jobocalpyse' set to strike as droids are trained to flip burgers, pour drinks - and even look after our children
Scientists predict a 'jobocalypse' as robots take over manual jobs
A huge 70% of occupations could become automated over next 30 years
Drivers, teachers, babysitters and nurses could be replaced by robots
Could mean the end of the eight-hour, five-day working week
By Mark Prigg
PUBLISHED: 12:04 EST, 20 January 2014 | UPDATED: 16:32 EST, 21 January 2014
Experts are predicting a 'jobocalypse' as robots take over manual jobs, while scientists at Cambridge warn that machines should have their intelligence limited to stop them outsmarting us.
A new version of the movie RoboCop (out February 12) shows us a future where technology revolutionises law enforcement, but that is just the tip of the iceberg for robotics.
'I believe we are the inflection point where robotics are going to change everything you know and do,' says Ben Way, author of Jobocalypse, a book about about the rise of the robots, told MailOnline.
Joel Kinnaman, left. and Gary Oldman, right, star in the new RoboCop movie
He says everyone from bartenders to drivers are at risk.
'They will have the impact to take away 70% of all traditional jobs in the next 30 years,' he said.
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'Robots could deliver a lot of instability - but if we get it right, it could lead to a new renaissance for humanity.
'We will change the way we work. The eight-hour, five-day work week will disappear.'
Lord Martin Rees, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, and the Astronomer Royal, believes robots have two very different roles.
'The first is to operate in locations that humans can't reach, such as the aftermaths of accidents in mines, oil-rigs and nuclear power stations.,' he says.
'The second, also deeply unglamorous, is to help elderly or disabled people with everyday life: tying shoelaces, cutting toenails and suchlike.'
However, he advocates limiting their intelligence, stopping them doing more advanced jobs.
'I think we should ensure that robots remain as no more than 'idiot savants' – lacking the capacity to outwit us, even though they may greatly surpass us in the ability to calculate and process information.'
Full story with lots of pictures at link.
Scientists predict a 'jobocalypse' as robots take over manual jobs
A huge 70% of occupations could become automated over next 30 years
Drivers, teachers, babysitters and nurses could be replaced by robots
Could mean the end of the eight-hour, five-day working week
By Mark Prigg
PUBLISHED: 12:04 EST, 20 January 2014 | UPDATED: 16:32 EST, 21 January 2014
Experts are predicting a 'jobocalypse' as robots take over manual jobs, while scientists at Cambridge warn that machines should have their intelligence limited to stop them outsmarting us.
A new version of the movie RoboCop (out February 12) shows us a future where technology revolutionises law enforcement, but that is just the tip of the iceberg for robotics.
'I believe we are the inflection point where robotics are going to change everything you know and do,' says Ben Way, author of Jobocalypse, a book about about the rise of the robots, told MailOnline.
Joel Kinnaman, left. and Gary Oldman, right, star in the new RoboCop movie
He says everyone from bartenders to drivers are at risk.
'They will have the impact to take away 70% of all traditional jobs in the next 30 years,' he said.
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Real-life robot wars! Meet the invincible cyborg soldiers that can fly, run and even drive - and they're ready to fight our battles NOW
'Robots could deliver a lot of instability - but if we get it right, it could lead to a new renaissance for humanity.
'We will change the way we work. The eight-hour, five-day work week will disappear.'
Lord Martin Rees, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, and the Astronomer Royal, believes robots have two very different roles.
'The first is to operate in locations that humans can't reach, such as the aftermaths of accidents in mines, oil-rigs and nuclear power stations.,' he says.
'The second, also deeply unglamorous, is to help elderly or disabled people with everyday life: tying shoelaces, cutting toenails and suchlike.'
However, he advocates limiting their intelligence, stopping them doing more advanced jobs.
'I think we should ensure that robots remain as no more than 'idiot savants' – lacking the capacity to outwit us, even though they may greatly surpass us in the ability to calculate and process information.'
Full story with lots of pictures at link.
