Bar to keep your job keeps rising in every profession / career / job category; it started with robots replacing humans on production lines & in agriculture, & soon:
- accountants out of a job within 10 years (The Economist prediction) with the help of accounting & tax softwares,
- truck drivers out of a job due to self-driving trucks (Daimler trucks),
- chauffeurs & taxi drivers out of jobs with self-driving cars (Google's self-driving cars),
- hotel human staff being made redundant with the help of robot staff (Henn na hotel in Japan),
- shelf stockers replaced by robots (Amazon warehouses),
- cashiers are already being pushed out the door with self-checking kiosks (several locations of major retailers), &
- even cops are going to be now out of work.
Thank your fellow entrepreneur & business person for his/her zeal to reduce costs (biggest costs are usually labour costs), & tech companies for coming up of new ways to raise the bar to put food on your table, assuming if your profession still exists.
What we do forget is not every human can become an entrepreneur, or a management guru, or a CEO, or any kind of executive. There can only be so many CEOs & executives. A large majority still needs to work, or simply have a job, in a company, somewhere.
Arab Spring in 2011 started because the public couldn't find enough work to put food on their table. Egyptian youths gathered in Tahrir Square because they couldn't find jobs comparable to their education.
Well, what's going to happen when million more in developed countries are & will keep upgrading their skills through education but unable to find jobs? Whose jobs / careers are next on the chopping block; baristas, janitors, teachers, airline pilots?
And that's even before the complete development & implementation of "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" in the modern tech. Frankly, I am not going to even theorize about the situation of labour market after AI comes into play.
As you can imagine many more jobs are, & can be, eliminated with the use of modern technology. Robots don't have families & don't need any food. But humans need jobs to put food on their dinner tables. Where will they go to fill their stomachs?
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Robocop-style law enforcement machines are expected to begin patrolling the streets of Dubai within 2 years.
The robots will become completely automated & require no human input within 5 years, & will be used to monitor shopping malls & bolster local police forces.
Dubai authorities claim the technology - which bears remarkable similarities to the Robocop sci-fi character first unveiled in 1987 - is already well underway.
The popular franchise depicts a superhuman cyborg created from a slain police officer, as he single-handedly wipes out crime from a dystopian Detroit.
Colonel Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi, from Dubai Police's Smart Services Department, said the robots are being designed to help control an ever-increasing population, according to the Khaleej Times.
He said: 'The robots will interact directly with people & tourists. People will be able to ask questions & make complaints, but they will also have fun interacting with the robots.'
He added that in 4 or 5 years' time the machines will be 'fully intelligent robots that can interact with people, with no human intervention at all'.
He made the comments during his keynote speech at a conference currently being held in Dubai dedicated to cyber security threats.
The remarkable development comes as more and more of the world's leading thinkers profess their concerns about the rate at which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing unchecked.
Late last year, Professor Stephen Hawking warned that thinking machines could 'spell the end of the human race'.
Speaking at event in London, the physicist told the BBC that developments in AI had so far proven to be beneficial to the human race but we should not be complacent about creating intelligence capable of surpassing that of humans.
He said: 'It would take off on its own, & re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, & would be superseded.'
In November, Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Space-X & Tesla, warned that the risk of 'something seriously dangerous happening' as a result of machines with AI could be in as few as 5 years.
He has previously linked the development of autonomous, thinking machines, to 'summoning the demon'.
Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, Musk described artificial intelligence as our 'biggest existential threat'.
He said: 'I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.
- accountants out of a job within 10 years (The Economist prediction) with the help of accounting & tax softwares,
- truck drivers out of a job due to self-driving trucks (Daimler trucks),
- chauffeurs & taxi drivers out of jobs with self-driving cars (Google's self-driving cars),
- hotel human staff being made redundant with the help of robot staff (Henn na hotel in Japan),
- shelf stockers replaced by robots (Amazon warehouses),
- cashiers are already being pushed out the door with self-checking kiosks (several locations of major retailers), &
- even cops are going to be now out of work.
Thank your fellow entrepreneur & business person for his/her zeal to reduce costs (biggest costs are usually labour costs), & tech companies for coming up of new ways to raise the bar to put food on your table, assuming if your profession still exists.
What we do forget is not every human can become an entrepreneur, or a management guru, or a CEO, or any kind of executive. There can only be so many CEOs & executives. A large majority still needs to work, or simply have a job, in a company, somewhere.
Arab Spring in 2011 started because the public couldn't find enough work to put food on their table. Egyptian youths gathered in Tahrir Square because they couldn't find jobs comparable to their education.
Well, what's going to happen when million more in developed countries are & will keep upgrading their skills through education but unable to find jobs? Whose jobs / careers are next on the chopping block; baristas, janitors, teachers, airline pilots?
And that's even before the complete development & implementation of "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" in the modern tech. Frankly, I am not going to even theorize about the situation of labour market after AI comes into play.
As you can imagine many more jobs are, & can be, eliminated with the use of modern technology. Robots don't have families & don't need any food. But humans need jobs to put food on their dinner tables. Where will they go to fill their stomachs?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robocop-style law enforcement machines are expected to begin patrolling the streets of Dubai within 2 years.
The robots will become completely automated & require no human input within 5 years, & will be used to monitor shopping malls & bolster local police forces.
Dubai authorities claim the technology - which bears remarkable similarities to the Robocop sci-fi character first unveiled in 1987 - is already well underway.
The popular franchise depicts a superhuman cyborg created from a slain police officer, as he single-handedly wipes out crime from a dystopian Detroit.
Colonel Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi, from Dubai Police's Smart Services Department, said the robots are being designed to help control an ever-increasing population, according to the Khaleej Times.
He said: 'The robots will interact directly with people & tourists. People will be able to ask questions & make complaints, but they will also have fun interacting with the robots.'
He added that in 4 or 5 years' time the machines will be 'fully intelligent robots that can interact with people, with no human intervention at all'.
He made the comments during his keynote speech at a conference currently being held in Dubai dedicated to cyber security threats.
The remarkable development comes as more and more of the world's leading thinkers profess their concerns about the rate at which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing unchecked.
Late last year, Professor Stephen Hawking warned that thinking machines could 'spell the end of the human race'.
Speaking at event in London, the physicist told the BBC that developments in AI had so far proven to be beneficial to the human race but we should not be complacent about creating intelligence capable of surpassing that of humans.
He said: 'It would take off on its own, & re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, & would be superseded.'
In November, Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Space-X & Tesla, warned that the risk of 'something seriously dangerous happening' as a result of machines with AI could be in as few as 5 years.
He has previously linked the development of autonomous, thinking machines, to 'summoning the demon'.
Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, Musk described artificial intelligence as our 'biggest existential threat'.
He said: 'I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.
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