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Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

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Re: Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

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> The significant investment in robotics showcases Amazon’s commitment to innovation in its supply chain and highlights the company’s belief in the synergistic potential of human-robot collaboration. Despite the massive scale of automation, Amazon emphasizes that deploying robots has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company, reflecting a broader industry trend toward the integration of advanced technologies with human workforces.

An article about robots that's written by a robot. It's robots all the way down.

Re: Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

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> The significant investment in robotics showcases Amazon’s commitment to innovation in its supply chain and highlights the company’s belief in the synergistic potential of human-robot collaboration. Despite the massive scale of automation, Amazon emphasizes that deploying robots has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company, reflecting a broader industry trend toward the integration of advance…

Who will inform the turtles they are no longer needed?

Re: Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

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> The significant investment in robotics showcases Amazon’s commitment to innovation in its supply chain and highlights the company’s belief in the synergistic potential of human-robot collaboration. Despite the massive scale of automation, Amazon emphasizes that deploying robots has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company, reflecting a broader industry trend toward the integration of advance…

> has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company.

"While systematically removing the unskilled job categories at the company"

The robot missed out that sentence for some reason.

Re: Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

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> The significant investment in robotics showcases Amazon’s commitment to innovation in its supply chain and highlights the company’s belief in the synergistic potential of human-robot collaboration. Despite the massive scale of automation, Amazon emphasizes that deploying robots has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company, reflecting a broader industry trend toward the integration of advance…

> has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company. "While systematically removing the unskilled job categories at the company" The robot missed out that sentence for some reason.

Well given the complaints about work conditions it would be good if humans were given less dangerous jobs

Re: Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company. "While systematically removing the unskilled job categories at the company" The robot missed out that sentence for some reason.

Well given the complaints about work conditions it would be good if humans were given less dangerous jobs

Not saying whether it’s good or bad, just the obvious bit left out.

Does really show that UBI discussion needs to be had sooner rather than later …

Re: Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

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It's a good thing actually given that the worker conditions are pretty terrible there.

But it is only a good thing if the increased productivity translates into better wages, increased vacations and reduced work days and not helping Jeff getting a bigger yacht.

And for that, it must be an active government policy.

Re: Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

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> The significant investment in robotics showcases Amazon’s commitment to innovation in its supply chain and highlights the company’s belief in the synergistic potential of human-robot collaboration. Despite the massive scale of automation, Amazon emphasizes that deploying robots has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company, reflecting a broader industry trend toward the integration of advance…

Don't forget all the robots reading it.

It seems the end goal of the advertising industry -- robots doing, robots writing, robots reading.

Like cockroaches and twinkies, one of the few things to survive nuclear war.

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