Reflection 2 - Are droids taking our jobs?
Today I watched the TED talk on robots and how they replaces humans in the industries. The robots are not only replacing us when it comes to hard labor but to it nowadays replace us in more and more tasks. One is for example that an algorithm, or a program can write news articles for us, searching the internet and news sources for information, that is kinda cool. And don't forget about the self driving cars, which Google and other companies are developing. As the speaker mentions, this will take jobs from us. Maybe the journalist will be a less and less needed profession or maybe the trucker won't be as needed on the long roads.
He also mentions how the evolution of the human society has increased in growth over the past two millennia. How things like empires, great thinkers, religions bare have made a dent in the curve but when the first machines came with the industrialising, the evolution of the human society almost went straight up from that point. In the same was as the machines aid us with overcoming our muscle limitation, the new programs and algorithms will overcome our limitations when it comes to brain capacity. We already have powerful tool which helps you draw detailed drawings with CAD. What if we get a program, or robot to improve the car all together with design, all technical safety calculations, maximize the effect of the engine etc. All with the push of a button the manufacturer could release a new model while it would take more than a year with a team of designers and engineers.
If we connect this program to the factory and let the robots there have full control over the whole manufacturing process the customer could order a car with their own preferences and nobody would have to lift a finger in the process. We would no longer have faulty products. All this would of course mean that we have a task of creating new jobs ahead of us. Maybe the designer and engineer will have to assist the programmers in order to tweak the tools and make them better. Maybe there ever will be a new brand of products which is marked "human-friendly", as we have eco-friendly products today. Maybe human made products will be a luxury.
No matter what, i am glad that i'm an computer engineer and from this TED talk i can say that my skills will be more than needed in the future. Unless we get a program which can write other programs. Then we will be in the mercy of our robot overlords anyway.
He also mentions how the evolution of the human society has increased in growth over the past two millennia. How things like empires, great thinkers, religions bare have made a dent in the curve but when the first machines came with the industrialising, the evolution of the human society almost went straight up from that point. In the same was as the machines aid us with overcoming our muscle limitation, the new programs and algorithms will overcome our limitations when it comes to brain capacity. We already have powerful tool which helps you draw detailed drawings with CAD. What if we get a program, or robot to improve the car all together with design, all technical safety calculations, maximize the effect of the engine etc. All with the push of a button the manufacturer could release a new model while it would take more than a year with a team of designers and engineers.
If we connect this program to the factory and let the robots there have full control over the whole manufacturing process the customer could order a car with their own preferences and nobody would have to lift a finger in the process. We would no longer have faulty products. All this would of course mean that we have a task of creating new jobs ahead of us. Maybe the designer and engineer will have to assist the programmers in order to tweak the tools and make them better. Maybe there ever will be a new brand of products which is marked "human-friendly", as we have eco-friendly products today. Maybe human made products will be a luxury.
No matter what, i am glad that i'm an computer engineer and from this TED talk i can say that my skills will be more than needed in the future. Unless we get a program which can write other programs. Then we will be in the mercy of our robot overlords anyway.
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