Sorry, but the jobless future isn't a luddite fallacy

[boanssi]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ut-the-jobless-future-isnt-a-luddite-fallacy/

"With advances in artificial intelligence, any job that requires the analysis of information can be done better by computers. This includes the jobs of physicians, lawyers, accountants, and stock brokers. We will still need some humans to interact with the ones who prefer human contact, but the grunt work will disappear. The machines will need very few humans to help them."


"Manufacturing will be the next industry to be transformed. Robots have, for many years, been able to perform surgery, milk cows, do military reconnaissance and combat, and assemble goods. But they weren’t dexterous enough to do the type of work that humans do in installing circuit boards. The latest generation of industrial robots by ABB of Switzerland and Rethink Robotics of Boston can do this however. ABB’s robot, Yumi, can even thread a needle. It costs only $40,000."

Where do you think the future of medicine is headed?
Please discuss.

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[boanssi]

"In May 2006 the first artificial intelligence doctor-conducted unassisted robotic surgery on a 34 year old male to correct heart arythmia. The results were rated as better than an above-average human surgeon. The machine had a database of 10,000 similar operations, and so, in the words of its designers, was "more than qualified to operate on any patient".[54][55] In August 2007, Dr. Sijo Parekattil of the Robotics Institute and Center for Urology (Winter Haven Hospital and University of Florida) performed the first robotic assisted microsurgery procedure denervation of the spermatic cord for chronic testicular pain.[56] In February 2008, Dr. Mohan S. Gundeti of the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital performed the first robotic pediatric neurogenic bladder reconstruction.[57]"

Took this excerpt from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot-assisted_surgery

 

[AFMD]

Good. Humans won't have to work much at all to get the same or more wealth. Less work is awesome.

Productivity has reached such a height that it's time to start figuring out how we are going to work less. In the US, wages have been stagnant because as productivity goes up there is less demand for labor. The excess wealth from increased productivity has gone into the pockets of the owners of production, instead of workers. All that needs to happen is workers standing up and taking a share of the increased profits they produce. Then wealth goes up for everyone, and we can all work less.

We need to get passed this whole idea that less jobs is bad. It should be a discussion about wealth and productivity, not jobs. Society needs to change as robots and AI shoot productivity through the roof.

 

[kbeitz]

How do you sue a toaster?

We will still need some humans to interact with the ones who prefer human contact

What you mean like every human being? What does this even mean? Maybe psychiatrists make the most money in this man's dystopia.