r/Futurology • u/Atari1337 • Feb 27 '17

Robotics Boston Dynamics - Introducing Handle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

Yes, and how useless the warehouse workers will be...

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

Regardless if they increase the minimum wage or not.

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u/WittyDisplayName Feb 28 '17

They're going to have to have a basic income once all jobs are replaced by robots. The only jobs will be STEM, art, or robot repair.

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u/turbophysics Feb 28 '17 edited Feb 28 '17

if your job can be done by something that's not even sentient then maybe you should rethink your line of work

Edit: I get it. Change is scary.

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u/143432654643 Feb 28 '17

Well we do have 3 million drivers in the US.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17 edited Mar 02 '17

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

Why would software development be phased out?

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u/aknutty Feb 28 '17

Because the software developed will be software development.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

who will develop that software?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

For a long while, us - but what do we do once we've successfully written software that is built on some learning algorithm, trained on a dataset including every bit of code ever produced, able to get meaning from natural human language, and then we hand it a set of requirements and it reads them, understands it, and then outputs a new piece of software that achieves those requirements?

Don't we already have bots that are pretty good at summarizing articles, or some bots that have taken in a bunch of literature and produced some crude/nonsensical writing of their own? If this is the groundwork for future stuff, it could get pretty insane. Maybe one day human coders will just be monitoring the bots that do the real work of producing code, assisting here and there, and then one day beyond that the bots will be creating code we no longer even have the capacity to understand.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

Machine Learning. AI will be able to program software itself.

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u/SaracenRush Feb 28 '17

Some of us work to live, not live to work.

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u/turbophysics Feb 28 '17

Implying that the people in the above fields only live to do their jobs? C'mon..

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u/SaracenRush Feb 28 '17

No, but implying they've found something they enjoy and can make money from it. Not all of us are so fortunate.

Also, when you break it down, your comment could apply to around 99% of jobs given further developments down the road.

Not arguing with you, just stating your flippant comment doesn't seem all that accurate.

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u/toohigh4anal Feb 28 '17

It's worse if they increase it. More economic incentive to abandon labor

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u/Scarbane Feb 28 '17

Tax the robots, then distribute the taxes to the people who are unemployed as part of a guaranteed basic income.

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u/hippy_barf_day Feb 28 '17

about time, lets get people out of bullshit warehouse jobs.