[peter12]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

really? well I guess academics do live in a utopian ivory tower. There are so many parts of what he says that make me roll my eyes or want to point out things he did not consider. But I guess thats just my POV.

Yes, some jobs get automated out. Some become more efficient. But thats been natural human progression, and humans have always filled that gap with something else. But lots of stuff out there still require custom work. Not to mention bugs that are inherent in the architecture (so it can do some but not all). Simple tools that I would think could be automated still are not yet (for many reasons I won't go into) ... so while you can see proof of concept, they aren't going to take over all jobs.

at least, in the next 2 decades, I don't see his concerns to be an issue. In 50-100 years though? I guess, not sure where the world situation will be and and it would take some sort of ground breaking new technology that would not only make this possible, but financially viable, systematically robust and reliable and the timing of the opportunity will have to match up. Its one thing for a robot to play chess, its another to do custom work that it "learned" (not to mention the capacity for it to process that information)

I think this is a reasonable perspective to take.