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Now let’s start talk about the robots that are coming for you.
‘The robots are coming for our jobs’ is a mainstay assertion in the media these days,
but how seriously should we take it?
Do you drive a truck for a living, deal with insurance claims, lay bricks, or are you just
a simple farmer?
If so, the soothsayers with their eyes on the tech industry may regard you as primed
for unemployment in the next few years.
When McDonalds workers complained about low wages last year, the response from former
CEO Ed Rensi was, “It’s cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an
inefficient employee who’s making $15 an hour bagging French fries.”
He made the statement after returning from a restaurant industry show where robotic devices
were given a chance to demonstrate their talents.
How soon will the robot revolution come, and which jobs will go first?
Today we’ll find out, in this episode of the Infographics Show, Robots vs. Humans.
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10: Fast Food Restaurant Worker What robotic magic did Ed Rensi behold that
was so impressive he felt human workers should be denied a pay rise?
It might have been the self-serve kiosk, the machine set to supplant the human touch when
we hear, “Do you want fries with that?”
American burger restaurant Wendy’s announced in February that by the end of the year, it
will have self-serve kiosks in a thousand of its restaurants.
Fast food chains McDonald's and Carl's Jr. will reportedly do the same, with the head
of the latter company stating this year that robots are “always polite, they always upsell,
they never take a vacation, they never show up late.”
Your job isn’t safe in the back, either.
A burger bar in San Francisco has a robotic burger-maker that can prepare and cook your
burger three times faster than a human.
Designed by start-up, Momentum Machines, the robot can make 400 burgers an hour.
Then there’s ‘Flippy’, a robot that grills your burger and will be put to work
at 50 outlets of CaliBurger over the next two years.
9: Taxi Driver Tesla Motor’s CEO Elon Musk is so confident
that machines will take so many jobs soon, that he says the only answer to job loss is
a Universal Basic Income, which means everyone is given enough money to live a decent life
whether they work or not.
Tesla is currently working on self-driving car technology, as are multiple other companies
such as Google, Uber, GM, Ford, and many more.
Each company is looking to take over the self-driving taxi market, or ride-hailing market.
Navigant Research rated how far each company had gotten with its tech, rating it from level
one to four – with four being completely autonomous.
Ford came out on top, but the auto-maker doesn’t expect its fleet of self-driving cars to be
ready until 2021.
8: Bank Teller In the near future, there won’t be much
need to go into your bank.
The ATM is going to become much more of a multi-tasker, according to reports, soon able
to do such things as open accounts and process loans.
The CEO of a software company called Diebold said the ATM of tomorrow will be able to do
90% of the work of a teller.
Sadly, or perhaps not, the end of the bank teller seems to be nigh.
Bank JPMorgan Chase has said right now about 60% of transactions that involve a bank teller
can be performed by an ATM, but that will rise to 90% with its introduction of new ATMs
in 2018.
7: Data Analysis One of the world’s leading automation software
companies, Automation Anywhere, said it’s in the process of unleashing a 3 million-strong
bot workforce.
Its software is used mainly for analyzing data, which could mean processing mortgages,
or legal work involving cognitive software that goes through thousands of pages of documents.
Such cognitive technologies are even being used by the Pentagon at present to analyze
thousands of hours of drone video footage taken over Syria and Iraq.
Going through huge amounts of data can be mundane work, and this is one of the first
areas where robots will lend a hand.
Some good news is financial services company Accenture reported this year that it didn’t
lay-off one employee when it replaced 17,000 of them with robots, it just repositioned
them in the company.
6: Farming Whether milking a cow or picking fruit, millions
of farmers are about to lose their job to a robot.
Danish company F. Poulsen Engineering has designed a machine that is a lettuce weeder,
a job that is back-breaking work and dangerous due to chemicals.
Automated lettuce weeding will save humans from potential backaches, but also work around
the clock, at a faster speed than a human, thereby saving farmers money.
Speaking of lettuce, a vegetable factory in Japan called Spread grows 10 million heads
of lettuce a year, and its workers are robots.
Agricultural robotics, Goldman Sachs predicts, will become a $240 billion market over the
next few years.
Other examples include a UK project, Hands Free Hectare, that uses an automated tractor
to grow crops.
Stensland Family Farms in the USA has 170 cows that are all milked by robots; there
are drones working in French vineyards that can inspect vines, and another machine called
Wall-YE that can prune the vine every five seconds during its 10-12 hour battery charge.
5: Journalists An investigative journalist or a colorful
features writer has nothing to worry about for now, but robots are already taking jobs
away from basic report writers.
Artificial intelligence already generates a small amount of content we read, and has
been adopted by large media agencies such as Reuters.
The Associated Press partnered with an automation firm in 2015 and its number of earnings reports
went up from 300 to 3,000 a month.
AP has stated it not only saves money, but the machines make fewer errors.
While the role of robots writing sports reports may have been hyped, AP does use them to write
Minor League Baseball stories that cover 13 leagues and 142 teams.
4: Medical Professional Surgical robots are improving all the time,
but we still need surgeons.
An automated doctor can make a diagnosis by asking you to stick out your tongue, but we
still need doctors.
Automation, however, will vastly improve the healthcare field using algorithms to make
diagnoses using quantifiable data.
In total, there are about 10,000 known human diseases, and machines are now helping professionals
to spot them.
Hospitals all over the U.S. are using IBM Watson Health’s algorithmic magic to help
diagnose cancer.
Microsoft said last year it will cure cancer using its artificial intelligence, while researchers
at Stanford University are currently working on algorithms to detect eye conditions by
scanning thousands upon thousands of images of eye ailments in a second.
It would take a human professional a matter of minutes to look at one image.
3: Construction Meet SAM, the construction worker of the future.
The acronym comes from semi-automated mason, otherwise known as a robot bricklayer.
Designed by Construction Robotics in the USA, SAM is a competent bricklayer that can lay
perfect rows of bricks and follow building plans.
Its sensors and algorithms help it make sure the work is done right, and its productivity
is better than that of humans.
SAM lays somewhere between 800 to 1,200 bricks a day, while humans are capable of laying
about 300 – 500 bricks a day.
SAM isn’t cheap though, and costs one million dollars a unit.
SAM isn’t alone as a robotic construction worker, with Japan right now working with
automated bulldozers that use drones to tell them what to knock down.
The world of the construction bot is not too far away.
2: Factory work Your iPhone may have been made by Chinese
electronics manufacturer, Foxconn, who reported last year it had laid-off 60,000 workers due
to automation.
It said jobs that involved repetitive tasks were the ones that went.
A video that went viral this year also came from China, which showed how little orange
parcel sorting robots had all but replaced humans in its postal sorting department.
300 of the machines work tirelessly for an 8-hour charge around a 21,000 square foot
warehouse.
In one hour, they sort 20,000 parcels together, and have helped the company, STO Express,
cut down on 70 percent of its manpower.
In an interview, the Chinese creator of the bots said they do five hours of human work
in just three hours.
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All jobs From office to retail to finance to construction,
many more jobs are being automated right now.
Full automation of labor will take some time, with some of the world’s leading minds on
automation at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute stating that there is a 50% chance
that all jobs will be done by robots in 120 years’ time.
This is a far-out scenario, but who knows what we will come up with.
The next step would be to create Artificial General Intelligence, a virtual human that
could plan, reason, joke, even teach the nuances of history.
After that, there’s Artificial Superintelligence, which would be far smarter than any human.
Some current A.I.
experts believe that could be the end of days for us thinking flesh and blood creatures.
So, what do you think about automation?
Is it the very thing the world needs right now, or is it the beginning of the end?
Let us know in the comments!
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