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goddamnedfrank7/24/2017 9:35:56 am PDT

re: #95 Weaselone

3. I’d be more confident on the expert predictions regarding AI and deep learning, if the first jobs on their lists to be replaced weren’t always food service workers. The factors driving automation are A. The cost to automate and B. The value from automating. It always seems like even the experts make the mistake of assuming that easy for humans to do = easy and cheap for machines/AI to do and vice versa, so it’s always low wage service jobs that are going to get replaced first as opposed to say fighter pilots or actuaries where there’s lots of money to be saved, enormous potential to boost performance and the functions almost seem custom built for machine intelligence.

The experts I’ve heard don’t say AI will target food service workers first, but instead will start targeting highly skilled info interpretive jobs like radiologists and contract lawyers. These jobs can be replaced or severely winnowed down without any additional investment needed in robotics and real world environmental manipulation or creative problem solving. The fast food hamburger robot meme is constructed more around conservative ideology about individual worth as a matter of time invested in marketable skills than it is around realistic predictions of how technology forces changes in the market.