Will Your Job Go Away?

[jyl]

Much talk currently about automation and AI replacing human jobs.

Can your job be replaced by robots with artificial intelligence over the next twenty years?

Why or why not?

[varmint]

I work for a newspaper. What do you think?

[Bill Douglas]

I'm a landlord and provide housing for those who couldn't otherwise afford it so me being multitalented, as in plasterer/painter/builder/plumber/electrician/glazier/lawn mower/find tenants/evict tenants/buy houses/work the market. I guess not. I hope not.

[aap1966]

My job is safe.

Humans are non-standardised.
You can't automate repair of non-standardised items.

[Outback Porsche]

I'm an organic robot





I can be replaced by another organic robot

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

I'm an organic robot





I can be replaced by another organic robot

Possibly so, BUT can the other organic robot work in 37 degrees celsius.

[jyl]

It would be helpful if you all said what your job is.

[porsche4life]

I work in seller support for Amazon. We outright asked senior management that and they said no, because while they can automate the easy issues, they will always need people to handle the unforeseen issues.

So at least for the foreseeable future, I'm good. . And we are always expanding, so there's options if my team did get become redundant.

[steve185]

Just retired, was a police officer, who knows these days.

[livi]

I mostly parade around with a coffee mug handing out assignements to junior docs and nurses, so prolly yes.

[wdfifteen]

Today I will:

Lead weekly staff meeting
Review weekly cash position reports
Photograph a mock-up of a photo shoot planned for next week
Negotiate an appointment to photograph a vehicle in a Florida museum
Wrap-up research on a magazine article
Finish repairing an air compressor
Complete an end of contract wind-up (hopefully)
Rebuild toilet in rental house

No - I don't see myself being replaced by a robot.

[Karenj]

I work as a data entry operator into a reputed college. If I do anything wrong then my job might be gone. So I am always careful about my duty.

[JJ 911SC]

Defense (defence), job for life...

42 years and 4 months to go

[M.D. Holloway]

My job will never go away because I teach and produce content but the industry I primarily work in will - Oil Analysis. With the advent of sensor technology there will be a drastic reduction in the need for labs. The technology exists today to have a 'micro-lab' on every asset that can analyze and record in real time pretty much anything a lab can do. The devices are pricey right now but the cost is reducing dramatically every year. As soon as the devices get below a $100 and are coupled with smart systems that learn, oil analysis labs will join block-buster stores. Of course there will be certain types of tests that you can't do on site but they are few and very analytical.

[jcommin]

Interesting question

I work in manufacturing for over 44 years. I started out on a drafting board, pencil, paper, slide rule and a few catalogs. I had engineering reference books: gear design, cam design, Marks Engineering Handbook and a Kent's Machinery Handbook just to name a few.

All this has been replaced by computer, drawing software such as Solid Works, 3D modeling and AutoCad. The internet and search engines can provide general information. There are canned programs that only require inputting a few numbers to give you answers to equations. BTW, the number of people to in an engineering staff got reduce from many to just a few.

The time to complete a project got reduced because of the tools, you need less people. And now that you have more time, you can other things. To a company, you are more efficient, the head count is less, you have less expense, you can get a product out the door faster. Engineering changes take less time. You can cut the cost of your product.

You can use the same playbook in all segments of the economy


It is called continuous productivity improvement. There is a point of diminishing returns. I'm 66, still working in the automotive industry. I have seen allot of changes. I've have been involved in plant closings, technology transfers, downsizing and designed and installed automation. I have seen a down size in headcount across all disciplines. I'm almost amazed I haven't been shown the door.


The answer is: it depends, Can one adjust to change? That is the question.

[GH85Carrera]

Only if the AI has true human level capacity to think out a problem and interact with human customers. Much of what we do is sit in front of a computer and use a variety of different computer programs to produce the final product. We produce aerial maps and surveys with remote sensing, (a man in an airplane). The tedious part for many years was the aerial triangulation of the images. Now the computers can spit out the AT much faster and most of the time better. Sometimes it just mashes up the images and spits out gibberish. The carbon based non artificial intelligences have to detect there was a problem and figure out how to solve it and explain to a customer why the project delivery is delayed.

So the day the robots are to the level in DATA in Star Trek I should be safe. I will be retired in less then 20 years so maybe I will have the AI household robot like Isaac Asimov wrote about to assist me.

[Tobra]

no

[GH85Carrera]

I saw that program on 60 Minutes on how AI was really changing medicine. The Watson computer cold spit out the correct treatment in seconds.

IBM’s Watson gives proper diagnosis after doctors were stumped - NY Daily News

Right now it is just an anomaly but in a dozen more years it will be in every medical office is bet.

[VINMAN]

I'm a forensic death investigator and a firefighter.

I'd say my jobs aren't going away anytime soon.



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[stomachmonkey]

I can be replaced by a couch pillow.

In reality, not likely.

A lot of what I do relates to how the rest of you behave.