In the latest issue of Wired, the article Better than Human predicts that remarkably intelligent robots are poised to wheel, scamper, or perhaps hover into your workplace and wrestle the keyboard or pen from your puny and incompetent humanoid hand. That’s right, the machines have figured out how to do your job and they’re tired of you messing it up. It’s an entertaining read, and there are some threads of logic to be found, but it’s mostly unrestrained futurism.
The article argues that robotics and AI have reached an “inflection point” that will rapidly change the usefulness of machines, setting them on course to take over every job that is currently done by a human by the end of this century. But, in a neat and reassuring twist of logic—based, evidently, on the lesson of the Industrial Revolution—the piece also concludes that this technological revolution will create just as many new jobs as it destroys. So there’s no need to cancel your magazine subscription and head for the hills with a shotgun. We and our robot coworkers will live happily ever after, it seems.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Robots Aren’t Coming for Our Jobs, Just Yet | MIT Technology Review
