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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
From a technical data web site, very impressive.
From the CEO of a public company vendor, $SOUN, which provides AI voice interactions to fast food restaurants implemented voice interactions in drive throughs:
These will replace human labor, and the ratio of programmers to displaced humans is vastly sucked higher in displaced humans than programmers.
Don't believe the AI hype trying to downplay human replacements
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Such fears have been with us since the 19th Century Industrial Revolution began as well documented in literature of that time (e.g., Dickens). Watch the 1935 movie Modern Times, 1973's Colossus The Forbin Project and many others. What actually happens is that humans migrate from these menial jobs to other jobs. The chief beneficiary of such change and growth has been the huge expansion of the leisure industry. As less time and physical energy is expended to work, demand increases for games, pampering, sporting activities, healthy pursuits, etc., and who-knows-what in the future.
One thing machines can't do is consume - and someone needs to get paid in order to spend money to maintain the machines they use. As long as we have a capitalistic society, humans need to be employed in order to spend on consumption. As long as corporation influence governments and governments are controlled by money, corporations will make sure that humans are employed.
Now, many humans will need to be retrained and be angry and resentful that things can't go on as they used to and that AI/machines have ruined society and made things more difficult instead of easier. Sound familiar? That's also been going on for centuries and here in The Villages, those complaints are endless.
But, the end of human employment and more poverty because of it? That is not the future of this country and the world - at least not if history is our guide and basic logic still applies.