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Yuli Ban wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:58 pm Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human
POLAR MANUFACTURING has been making ​metal ​hinges, locks, and brackets ​in south Chicago for more than 100 years. Some of the company’s metal presses—hulking great machines that loom over a worker—date from the 1950s. Last year, to meet rising demand amid a shortage of workers, Polar hired its first robot employee
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Nanotechandmorefuture wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:53 pm
Yuli Ban wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:58 pm Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human
POLAR MANUFACTURING has been making ​metal ​hinges, locks, and brackets ​in south Chicago for more than 100 years. Some of the company’s metal presses—hulking great machines that loom over a worker—date from the 1950s. Last year, to meet rising demand amid a shortage of workers, Polar hired its first robot employee
I knew that was coming!
I also know that they will throw in few free robots if they rent them in bulk. Humans can't even beat that, can they? 8-)
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raklian wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:07 pm
Nanotechandmorefuture wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:53 pm
I knew that was coming!
I also know that they will throw in few free robots if they rent them in bulk. Humans can't even beat that, can they? 8-)
With Ameca robot, or any future ones similar to it if created, showcasing how fluid it is and all on the forum wait until the cops start seeing the robots slowly moving to take their jobs. The effects of even a small technological unemployment are going to be a shocker. Its... troublesome to think about.
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The most exciting gadget of the year isn’t a TV that displays NFTs or a foldable tablet computer or anything related to the metaverse. It’s an autonomous tractor.

More specifically, it’s the self-driving John Deere 8R tractor that can plow fields, avoid obstacles, and plant crops with minimal human intervention. It looks a lot like any other John Deere tractor — it’s green and yellow — but there are six pairs of stereo cameras that use artificial intelligence to scan the surroundings and maneuver accordingly. The farmer doesn’t need to be anywhere near the machine to operate it, either, as there’s a smartphone app that controls everything. The tractor goes on sale later this year, just in time for an extra special robotic harvest season.

“In my view, it’s a big deal,” Santosh Pitla, associate professor of advanced machinery systems at the University of Nebraska, told Recode. John Deere’s equipment accounts for more than half of all farm machinery sold in the United States, and even the simple fact that it’s putting an autonomous tractor on the market will change the way farming works. “That’s big news,” Pitla said, “and it’s good news.”
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These container-like kitchens are completely self-sufficient. They can store, prepare, cook, and clean without the help of a human.

Hyper Robotics cofounder and CEO Udi Shamai told Insider that it takes one month to produce one kitchen and the company is aiming to build ten a month. Production is still in the early stages.

"You can place it anywhere you want," Shamai said. "It's like a huge vending machine."
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Before the pandemic started (ah, those glorious days…) a collective panic was mounting over automation and robots gradually replacing workers in various fields, or “stealing our jobs,” as the common refrain went. These worries haven’t subsided two years later, but they’re being countered by severe and largely unexpected labor shortages across multiple sectors of the economy. One of the industries that’s struggling most is restaurants. While we may still encounter automation-related unemployment problems down the road, right now it seems robots are lending a much-needed hand in food service.

One of these robots is none other than Flippy, initially debuted in 2017 to flip burgers at a California fast food chain. Since then Miso Robotics, Flippy’s maker, has expanded the bot’s capabilities, creating a version that can cook chicken wings, fries, and other greasy delights. This week also brought a significant expansion to Flippy’s presence as White Castle announced plans to install the robot at more than 100 restaurants this year.

White Castle was the first restaurant chain to significantly invest in Flippy, piloting the robotic assistant in 2020. The chain gave feedback about the robot to Miso, and the company put out a second iteration called Flippy 2 last November. This new robot can independently do the work of an entire fry station: its AI-enabled vision identifies foods, picks them up, and cooks them in fry baskets designated for that food specifically. The bot then moves cooked items to a hot-holding area.
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^ Seriously, the world before the pandemic is an increasingly distant one. And the issue of automation is definitely one of the things that has had a tonal change ever since.

Before COVID-19, automation and technological unemployment was obviously a major issue that had to be addressed at some point. However, the framing of that issue was always countered by the reality on the ground. The status quo was simply too rigid for major upheaval. Discussions of when automation would seriously start affecting us in a tangible way usually began around 2025, a safe date that was far enough away to seem distant and up for change while still close enough so that there wouldn't be much of a wait.
But the cold fact is that the labor market was strong and not likely to see any real sea-changes for a good long time. Rather, automation would be gradual and in the background, opposed by social forces and denied by political ones.

Instead, the coronavirus accelerated everything by a decade, in fact so fast that a lot of technology wasn't even really ready for the upheaval. We're dealing with a late 2020s economy right now, and it remains to be seen how well we adapt...
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Not much that is new in the article below. For me, what is fun about it is that it is Jim Hightower that is writing the piece. A favorite.

Robots are Coming for White Collar Jobs
by Jim Hightower
March 16, 2022

https://otherwords.org/robots-are-comin ... llar-jobs/

Introduction:
(Other Words) In corporate speak, there are no “job cuts.”

Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now though, corporate wordsmiths will need a whole new thesaurus of euphemisms for the massive job cuts coming in the higher echelons of the corporate structure.

Don’t look now, but an unanticipated result of the ongoing pandemic is that it’s given cover for CEOs to speed up the adoption of highly-advanced “Robotic Process Automation,” or RPAs, to replace employees once assumed to be immune from displacement.

As one analyst told a New York Times reporter, “With RPA you can build a bot that costs $10,000 a year and take out two to four humans.”

Prior to the COVID crisis, many top executives feared a public backlash if they pushed automation too far too fast. But ironically, the economic backpedaling caused by the pandemic has so discombobulated the workplace and diverted public attention that corporate bosses have been emboldened to rush ahead.
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caltrek wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 2:04 pm Not much that is new in the article below. For me, what is fun about it is that it is Jim Hightower that is writing the piece. A favorite.

Robots are Coming for White Collar Jobs
by Jim Hightower
March 16, 2022

https://otherwords.org/robots-are-comin ... llar-jobs/

Introduction:
(Other Words) In corporate speak, there are no “job cuts.”

Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.” Now though, corporate wordsmiths will need a whole new thesaurus of euphemisms for the massive job cuts coming in the higher echelons of the corporate structure.

Don’t look now, but an unanticipated result of the ongoing pandemic is that it’s given cover for CEOs to speed up the adoption of highly-advanced “Robotic Process Automation,” or RPAs, to replace employees once assumed to be immune from displacement.

As one analyst told a New York Times reporter, “With RPA you can build a bot that costs $10,000 a year and take out two to four humans.”

Prior to the COVID crisis, many top executives feared a public backlash if they pushed automation too far too fast. But ironically, the economic backpedaling caused by the pandemic has so discombobulated the workplace and diverted public attention that corporate bosses have been emboldened to rush ahead.
It was only a matter of time. Hell even engineer jobs are probably on the chopping block because what will they do when the robots can fix themselves even if rudimentary? I do not think people understand the absolutely massive disruption robots will have on the workforce.
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