I think that we as a species will never evolve because there is no adversity to warrant it. This will leave us entirely dependant on machines/bots in the way they're described in this video.
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Re: Humans need not Apply - The Future of Automation
Posted: August 25th, 2014, 2:54 pm
by Azami
interesting video and it does give some insight on what the future will be like
Re: Humans need not Apply - The Future of Automation
Posted: August 26th, 2014, 2:44 pm
by Warfire
As an engineer (and a Cybernetician) I fully support most of what he says - however once there are less humans in the market place there will be less money, less money means cheaper workers, cheaper workers means no need for robots so it should be somewhat self regulating.
The biggest danger I can see is this robots replacing skilled people (like me!) rather than professionals as Grey thinks - Lawyers will find ways to make themselves still relevant and Doctors will use machine learning to help them and generate more patients, not replace them. Programmers, Engineers, (software/system/solution) Architects, and the like are the most at risk long term since our jobs will no longer exist if software becomes self programming.
I don't think 50-80% unemployment is likely any time soon but 20-30% is entirely possible.