Not even the burger flippers are safe

• O-Trap

  

  Pancakes a la robot:
  
  http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540781/robots-learn-to-make-pancakes-from-wikihow-articles/
  
  In addition to the employees in fast food who take orders, we might be seeing something that COULD threaten the jobs of the people preparing the food.
  
  Sleeper, you could fully automate your McDonalds.
• sleeper

  

  O-Trap;1748082 wrote:Pancakes a la robot:
  
  http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540781/robots-learn-to-make-pancakes-from-wikihow-articles/
  
  In addition to the employees in fast food who take orders, we might be seeing something that COULD threaten the jobs of the people preparing the food.
  
  Sleeper, you could fully automate your McDonalds.

  I sold my share in the business mostly because it became too much of a hassle to manage and I can make more money elsewhere with less effort.
• BoatShoes

  Not just burger flippers but web engineers, lawyers, physicians and MBA's too.
• Sonofanump

  BoatShoes;1748088 wrote:Not just burger flippers but web engineers, lawyers, physicians and MBA's too.

  and horseshoe makers, switchboard operators, milkmen, chimney sweeps, wagon train leader,
• O-Trap

  

  BoatShoes;1748088 wrote:Not just burger flippers but web engineers, lawyers, physicians and MBA's too.

  Virtually anything that doesn't require occasional subjectivity in decision-making.
• O-Trap

  

  sleeper;1748086 wrote:I sold my share in the business mostly because it became too much of a hassle to manage and I can make more money elsewhere with less effort.

  
  Well this makes things sound relatively low-maintenance.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  I honestly hope the fast food industry goes to automated. I'm so sick of the idiots crying for higher wages for fast food workers. That's great... now you're replaced by a machine, b/c it saves the company money.
  
  Capitalism, how does it work?
• O-Trap

  

  ernest_t_bass;1748682 wrote:Capitalism, how does it work?

  In a somewhat oversimplified sense:
  
  (a) Provide the necessary value that allows your employer to remain adequately profitable within the competitive climate of its respective market
  
  -OR-
  
  (b) Don't stay employed there
• BoatShoes

  O-Trap;1748090 wrote:Virtually anything that doesn't require occasional subjectivity in decision-making.

  Even today, what results in subject decision making could potentially be replaced by an efficient AI. For example, suppose we come up with an AI that can piece together the best practices from the EDGAR database and create as good of a contract as a lawyer - or search the Westlaw Database and produce brief with top notch syntax and legal reasoning.
  
  I'm not one of these hardcore futurists but the next few decades will be interesting if/when we start to see tech no longer augmenting and shifting labor but totally replacing it with AI.
  
  I think it will really be interesting when traditionally high paid professionals start facing this sort of thing. For example, a family member of mine is undergoing cancer treatment at a top notch facility but even now the best docs don't even know all of the clinical trials out there, etc.
• HitsRus

  

  The AI singularity represents unique challenges and possibilities ....by 2045 a single hand held computer will exceed the brain power of all of humanity. It will no doubt, be a paradigm shift of immense proportions that few of us can even imagine.
  http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html
• Tiernan

  Eventually only Athletes will be the only professionals not replaced by AI and middle managers like Heretic & like_that will be out of jobs. Oh God how I will chuckle.
• FatHobbit

  

  Tiernan;1748910 wrote:Eventually only Athletes will be the only professionals not replaced by AI and middle managers like Heretic & like_that will be out of jobs. Oh God how I will chuckle.

  
• bigorangebuck22

  Robots and computers make awesome "employees".
  
  Very lousy customers though.
• HitsRus

  

  ^^^^Just wait, the singularity is coming.
• QuakerOats

  "... in August a whopping 698,000 native-born Americans lost their job. This drop was offset by 204,000 foreign-born Americans, who got a job in the month of August."
  
  
  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-07/698k-native-born-americans-lost-their-job-august-why-suddenly-most-important-jobs-ch
  
  
  Change we can believe in ...