Bill Gates: People Don't Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software

[77ncaachamps]

Soon Bill Gates will be replaced by a robot!

[brandx]

Exactly.  Eventually you get this


If the minimum wage continues to increase, the guy back there pouring the salt on the fries will also be replaced by a robot.  Worse yet, there is a threshold where it will be more profitable to higher an almost all robot crew and the real kicker is that the engineers who are building these robots are not doing other important things like building clean air technology for the EU (sup Keefe).  In other words, there is a high opportunity costs to have our engineers building burger-flipping robots.

Finally, we rob low-income people from valuable work experience.  Many of these people went to public schools or dropped out of school altogether.  Often times, the only way that they can prove themselves as a reliable person is to get a job, keep it, and advance.  The advent of these machines, prompted by an arbitrary increase in the price of labor, precludes that possibility.  You end up doing more harm than good.

I want to help the poor.  They spend a bigger fraction of their income than rich people do.  The aggregate economy could use spending.  But the minimum wage is the most inefficient way to achieve that goal.

The machines have nothing to do with the minimum wage. They are in place because we have the technology to do this now.

[jesmu84]

You might even fall in love with them

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/375028/scitech/technology/robot-sex-workers-may-be-commonplace-by-2025-pew-research


All I ask, have them learn to drive a little better and avoid hitting the dog (allegedly)

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-street-view-car-hits-a-dog-in-chile-2014-8

Eh, if insurance companies or whomever is deciding whether a human or robot is the better driver, it all comes down to the bottom line. Robots/automated driving doesn't have to be 100% safe or accident-free, it just has to be better than humans.

[MU82]

"OBAMA!!!!" (He said, clenching his fists and shaking them at nobody in particular.)

[Spotcheck Billy]

You might even fall in love with them

https://www.youtube.com/v/gHwm8gUh7N0

[MU82]

My sophomore year (1979-80), my best friend wrote a paper for a class entitled: "Computers ... They Must Be Stopped!"

How prescient!