The Robot Revolution

[Thales750]

The reality is that every job in the world is being replaced by Ai or Ai driven robots.

Fear is irrelevant, resistance is futile.

We are living in the last days before the impending renaissance.

It is either black death, or it is a great rebirth. it all depends on when you were born, and when you lived.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Maybe it's our natural progression...

 

[The_Doc_Man]

We are living in the last days before the impending renaissance.

I would PERHAPS correct that to "We are living in the days in transition to the burgeoning renaissance." Your version would make it seem like the changes haven't occurred yet. I think they have already started. Just one man's opinion.

 

[Isaac]

Times are changing at a pace that continues to accelerate - the pace itself. It's overwhelming at times to ponder.
I wonder how my Dad feels, and how I'll feel at age 80, if I'm still alive even.

I also think AI will end up being more costly than most people anticipate. So far I am seeing a lot of "AI is everywhere, AI will do everything, AI will take over the world", but little attention being given to the extreme energy costs associated with it. I wonder if most people are properly taking that into account. Small towns are battling data centers at every turn

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Small towns are battling data centers at every turn

Residents in central Louisiana - near Alexandria - are fighting (but losing to) the data center springing up there because of the energy costs and what it will do to the cost of residential electricity.

 

[MarkK]

The word sabotage originates from the early 1800's after the invention of the the jacquard loom, commonly considered to be the first programmable machine. A sabot was a wooden shoe, and newly unemployed textile workers would, apparently, throw their shoes into the new looms as a protest against this technological advance that threatened their livelihoods.

There is nothing new about technology rending previously important occupations obsolete.

Think of the master craftsmen who built wooden sailing ships, or the row after row of accounting clerks updating ledgers for the British East India Company, or omg, telephone operators. When I was a kid you would talk to an actual person to place a collect call. The operator would place the call, and you'd hear someone answer, and you'd hear the operator ask them if they'd accept the charges.

Plus ca change...