> Technology will kill white-collar jobs.
Yes, we all agree. No one disputes that. This article is more about Jeff Greene's conference and biography than it is about automation. Reads like an advertorial.
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#12> Technology will kill white-collar jobs. Yes, we all agree. No one disputes that. This article is more about Jeff Greene's conference and biography than it is about automation. Reads like an advertorial.
White-collar job: Writing Advertorials
Wait, I can write a script to do that...
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#13There will have to be a shift to more creative work which can not be done by computers.
Is there enough demand for that much creative work? Who will consume it, if this trend widens the income inequality gap?
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#14Humans can always do the jobs that robots feel too overqualified to do.
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#15There will have to be a shift to more creative work which can not be done by computers.
Yesterday on Hacker News:
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#16If your connection to the world is via a phone and computer, you will be replaced.
Not sure that statement is true (I actually think it's almost the opposite). For example if programmers are replaced, who will create the programs for the machines? I imagine even after the first wave of robot overloads, they will want a version 2.0. If you are a web designer, your connection is through a computer. Not sure robots can be creative (not yet anyways) If you are a sales person, your connection will be th…
Emulated minds and artificial intelligences will replace programmers eventually.
Even graphic design could be done by an AI running a genetic algorithm, with automated A/B testing as the fitness function.
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#17Eventually technology should kill pretty much all of the jobs. Human time and energy should be spent on what they find interesting, not on mundane stuff such as farming, housing, construction, database plumbing - all of which could be easily automated. No human should have to work to pay bills because there should be no bills. That should be the promise of technology. Only jobs left for humans should be things that require creativity, higher level reasoning and new ideas. Of course, there may be AI one day that does better than us on these areas as well and that's just part of evolution. It doesn't necessarily have to mean humans will go extinct. Universe has plenty of space for all of us and next generation of intellectual species.
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#18> Technology will kill white-collar jobs. Yes, we all agree. No one disputes that. This article is more about Jeff Greene's conference and biography than it is about automation. Reads like an advertorial.
White-collar job: Writing Advertorials Wait, I can write a script to do that...
Soon: "Google is proud to introduce Markov chain advertorials."
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#19Why are we even talking about this guy? While this prediction may be true in the long run, it's not really news, and we're a long, long ways away from autonomous conversation agents that will replace expert professionals. These dramatic long-run predictions that fail to take into account other trends -- free solar energy, climatic collapse, all-you-can-edit genes -- are essentially worthless.
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#20North Korea will kill white-collar jobs with thermonuclear fire!