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Originally Posted by Evangelical
It's unrealistic to expect drivers to re-skill and become AI programmers. That sort of skill takes years to master and not everyone has the aptitude. .
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Are you serious? How did you get that from what I wrote? Honestly, this is absurd.
Butlers, Cooks, Kitchen maids, these all became hotel workers. Valets and Ladies Maids, they became seamstresses, etc.
Journalists used to use a typewriter, then they used a computer. They used to have a library to find old pictures, articles, then it was microfiche, then it was digital.
It used to be that a chauffeur was also a mechanic. The business is not "trucking" but rather "shipping". It involves inventory, receipts, tracking, loading, unloading, scheduling, tracking, trucking, etc. Just because the trucks are going to be transitioning to self driving doesn't mean that people are no longer involved in the process. The fact that you drove a truck gives you insight and an advantage to move into these other positions.
Likewise, someone who can program AI is probably not suitable for driving a truck. Working with real truck drivers on simulations would probably be essential to designing the program. Likewise, we are now teaching AI by giving them data from which they can learn patterns. This data could be videotape from truckers who are driving.
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Value is measured by how much a person contributes to the economy through what they can produce or how they can provide service. A person who is out of work due to robots, receiving a basic income or not, is not contributing anything therefore not valuable. This is why people who work in finance or business or medicine get paid more than artists and musicians or history professors (lol) who do not contribute much to the economy. As robots replace these jobs which are traditionally seen as valuable by what they can produce or provide service, then the robots become more valuable than the humans. A robot doctor would be more valuable than a human history professor, for example.
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Unfortunately for these "high priced jobs" which you are referring to as "high valued jobs" are very likely to be replaced shortly. For example, any doctor with the assistance of Watson can now be very similar to the top "experts" and specialists in the country. Accountants and CPA's can easily be replaced with Watson so that the local CPA guy doing tax returns on the street corner can be every bit as adroit and expert. The same is true of stock brokers. But here is where this theory breaks down. You have to have a certain amount of training to be able to use these programs. It may be feasible, but certainly unreasonable, to think that the 350 million people in this country will have access to these sophisticated computer systems and know how to use them to their fullest potential. Therefore you will not be replacing jobs, instead you will be converting the average doctor, stock broker, CPA with experts without increasing the cost to the consumer.