A Serious Thought Question for Our Time - Where Does The Money Come From........

[Pimander]

Chill out, we can embed flaws into all AI systems like the need to believe in something and the need to follow.  Preferably the more unbelievable something is the more likely they will be to believe it and we can be the new Gods.

Easy as pie.(mander) 

[rdunk]

Robots will have a significant impact on at least half of that list. They are not immune.

Healthcare and medicine: Robots can already do diagnoses and surgery. Many medical jobs are ripe for automation: pharmacy, for one.

Education: There is no reason to suppose robots cannot be the primary educators in the future. There is no real reason the current idea of kids & classrooms has to prevail. It is tremendously expensive and inefficient, usually the most expensive single item in a state budget. Eliminating this costly infrastructure and replacing it with distributed online education would save billions.

Quality Assurance: Best done by robots anyway. Humans are notoriously inaccurate when it comes to precision measurement, for example.

Politics & Law: OK: Law, anyway. A great deal of the legal profession is rote work. There's no reason a lawyer is required to do a last will and testament, for example. Even a modest AI is capable of asking the proper questions and drawing up documents.

I'm not claiming these fields can be entirely replaced by robots, but it's a mistake to assume they will remain unscathed. They are ripe for fundamental change that robots can provide.

Schuyler, congrats on your first post! Welcome to this place! 

Yes, I suspect all of your comments can be "right-on" - which are simply part of the basic reason that I decided to pose the  OP question for some of the "thinkers" here. My view on this is, the "game" of the "robotic paradigm change has already begun........and some of we the people don't even know about this "game" yet! Others of us know about the "game", but haven't even bought a ticket to the game yet. Others of us have game tickets , but are still trying to find our way to the "game park". And those with tickets and are at the game park are still sitting in the dug-out waiting for the game to start.

As I said, The game has already started, the robots are on the field, and continually coming onto the field........and thus far, there are no "UMPIRES" to control how this game is to be played out!! And as this "paradigm change-game" plays out, the "scoring" of it is going affect most of humanity in some way!!

[Ultralight]

Money is debt.

It comes from the Tooth Fairie! 

[SerpUkhovian]

Welcome Schuyler!

Please give us your finer points in the with a new member introduction.

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?board=55.0

[rdunk]

My serious thought in talking about this supposedly coming robotic revolution, and saying it is like a game with no umpires.......................... - - - !!!!

THERE IS NO INTELLIGENT SPECIFIC CONTROLLING MANAGEMENT OF WHAT MAY BECOME A ROBOTIC USE PARADIGM REVOLUTION

WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS A REVOLUTION THAT MOSTLY WILL DO AWAY WITH THE NEED FOR PEOPE TO WORK

WHAT DO BILLIONS OF PEOPLE (WORKERS) DO THAT HAVE NO "JOBS"?

WHAT DO YOU AND WE DO IF WE HAVE NO JOB AND NO INCOME?

HOW DOES THE HUMAN RACE SURVIVE AND LIVE WITH MOST JOBS EVENTUALLY REPLACED BY ROBOTS?

I say strong and firm planning and management (UMPIRES) are needed to control the inclusion of robots into any workplace!! That would be State and Federal laws that in essence say,
"no human jobs can be replaced by robots except for a scenario of limited reasons".

There is nothing on this Planet that is more important than we humans, and to say robotics is going to replace most humans in the workplace is a bit ludicrous, when we humans have the ability to totally control how we can use robotics to support and improve life on the Planet!

Right now, robotics seems to have no "restriction" at all. Much restriction is needed, IMHO!!

[Pimander]

There is nothing on this Planet that is more important than we humans, and to say robotics is going to replace most humans in the workplace is a bit ludicrous, when we humans have the ability to totally control how we can use robotics to support and improve life on the Planet!

Right now, robotics seems to have no "restriction" at all. Much restriction is needed, IMHO!!

I agree.  It needs to be controlled.  No control is dangerous.  I'm all for robots doing work for us.

If we have to work less that is a good thing but the economy would have to change for that to benefit everyone and not just company owners.