Friday 13 November 2015

NDM News Story 17: Thinking machines: the skilled jobs that could be taken over by robots

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/12/thinking-machines-skilled-job-robots-steal

Fear of mass unemployment has been proved wrong as automation makes the economy stronger


There have been more and more robot creations that have the ability to take over job roles that was once thought to be impossible. Some of these robots have the ability to replace someworkers in the most competitive fields such as science, medicine, enternatinment, pilots, journalism and law. In the entertainment industry there have been cases of holograms of artists and actors who had died, appeaing in concerts and films. For medicine, it is belived that robots would be able to handle jobs thta nurses and GPs do as similar functions of these humans can be recreated in robots. There are many aeroplanes now flying without a pilot as they can be controlled with a remote from another destination and as for journalism, there are machines that can write convincingly written news stories after inputting some key data.

  • Adam, a scientist-robot, created in a partnership between Aberystwyth and Cambridge universities, became the first machine to independently discover new scientific knowledge in 2009
  • The most notable example is the cameo by Marlon Brando in Superman Returns, released two years after his death. Footage from Superman (1978) was mixed with computer generated effects to create a new scene.
  •  the Da Vinci robot is already capable of performing surgeries no human surgeon would be able to handle.
  • IBM’s Watson project, most famous for winning an episode of the American game show Jeopardy, can understand spoken questions and seek the answer from a massive database of technical knowledge

With the massive increase in artificial intelligence, there are many possibilities, shown in the article where many jobs can be taken over by machines. With this occuring, the need for human employees will significantly decrease making it more difficult to find respectable jobs. Despite this, it may lead to more jobs being accurately done.

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