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Regarding food and cooking: considering that the ice-cream machine at McDonald's breaks down so easily, and is so difficult/costly to repair, one shudders to think of the operational cost and hazard of a robot cook in the kitchen.
I have my doubts about how often those machines really break down. If you ever want a fun adventure try to get a milkshake in Phoenix at 3AM in the middle of summer. All the machines are conveniently “broken”.
Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs?
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Re: Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs?
#72Touchscreens have replaced lots of human jobs. Self checkouts have replaced lots of human jobs. I worked in one of the very first grocery stores to have a self checkout added. They told us it wouldnt affect our jobs. If you go into any grocery store in the country you will see ~25% staffing compared to the late 90s/early 2000s. If you are askibg this question you are just too young to have noticed, or perhaps of a so…
I went to the grocery store a few weeks ago for the first time in like 3 years (been using delivery) and I was surprised that everyone in line was an instacart shopper.
It was pretty surreal. I used to enjoy going to the grocery store with my parents as a child.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs?
#73Touchscreens have replaced lots of human jobs. Self checkouts have replaced lots of human jobs. I worked in one of the very first grocery stores to have a self checkout added. They told us it wouldnt affect our jobs. If you go into any grocery store in the country you will see ~25% staffing compared to the late 90s/early 2000s. If you are askibg this question you are just too young to have noticed, or perhaps of a so…
That's just turning the screen around and making the customer do the same thing as the employee based off the fact that CCTV systems will work with people's decency so as to not steal. It's not automation, the same actions still occur.
are ... we going to be replaced by robots?!
Re: Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs?
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That's just turning the screen around and making the customer do the same thing as the employee based off the fact that CCTV systems will work with people's decency so as to not steal. It's not automation, the same actions still occur.
That only works because of the previous success in semi automating checkout, and scaling up the efficiency of security via CCTV.
Checkouts weren't previously automated, they were digitised. The reporting of data was no longer a manual process so you could argue the backoffice tasks were automated.
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Self driving cars are a common sight on many roads now, John deere just released a fully autonomous tractor https://www.deere.com/en/news/all-news/autonomous-tractor-re... , we have tricorders in our pocket that allow us to communicate with any human on earth, instantly, ...
But are "self driving cars" really that common? I don't mean a car with a handler to take over when the car gives up, but a truly self driving without a driver/handler.
Not common yet, that'll take years. But they exist, that's a big step forward. Exists is way further along than doesn't exist.