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Name a job. Can we automate it?

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GAF posting.

Can it be automated? Well, I suspect half you are bots so to some degree, yes.

Tay may need some algorithm tweaking though.
 
Dennis said:
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Yep. The automated post would probably be about automation because GAF is obsessed with it.


It isn't something that is going to happen in a major way in our lifetimes. People said everything with be automated soon in the 1950s. I am stil waiting for the Jetsons.
 
I remember checking a "likelyhood of having your job automated" database a while ago and thought it was weird that police were more likely than librarians.

So... Police? Anyone think that's actually possible?
Yes yes automatic weapons on a droid that only targets minorities etc etc, none of those posts thanks, I'm being serious.

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Stockroom worker / Cashier / Anything retail.
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Those will be the first to go, infact, cashiers are already a near-extinct species.
 
I think at a certain point it won't be "can we automate it?" it will be "do people want it automated?" Look at what happened with the movie industry and special effects:, late 90s and early 2000s. everyone was excited about the VFX revolution and digital backdrops, however in a post prequel world we're seeing people yearning for more practical effects and less digital.

My point is. you can essentially automate as much as you want, but eventually people are going to want that human touch.
 
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FriedConsole said:
Yep. The automated post would probably be about automation because GAF is obsessed with it.


It isn't something that is going to happen in a major way in our lifetimes. People said everything with be automated soon in the 1950s. I am stil waiting for the Jetsons.
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It very much is something that's happening right now. Anecdotally speaking my sister lost a cushy administrative job because an algorithm could do the job for a fraction of the cost. Middle class jobs are under the most pressure at the moment, hard menial labor stuff where it doesn't make economic sense yet are safer leading to a bigger polarization between really good jobs and minimum wage jobs.
 
There was a great bit on NPR earlier today and the guy talked about how alot of white collar jobs, even medical jobs are likely to be subsidized. For instancd a single medical professional can attend to multiple people using monitoring, AI and mechanical technologies to supplement positions that would have taken many more. I think alot of very cushy jobs are going to be disappearing. That doesn't mean new jobs won't appear in their stead. Just saying it's already happening.
 
Another thing to consider is that the PR cost of total automation would be a nightmare. At most chain stores there are only one row of self-checkout machines and about twelve or so open registers. It's been that way for about ten years now. Could the store replace all the checkout lines with robots? Technically, yes they probably could. but would people stand for it? Nope, they'd probably just go to the next store over.
 
Alphahawk said:
Another thing to consider is that the PR cost of total automation would be a nightmare. At most chain stores there are only one row of self-checkout machines and about twelve or so open registers. It's been that way for about ten years now. Could the store replace all the checkout lines with robots? Technically, yes they probably could. but would people stand for it? Nope, they'd probably just go to the next store over.
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That's cuz those machines are only partially automated. You still have to run the scan, look up produce item, bag items, call someone to verify alcohol purchase, etc. They're crappy. An improved automated system would be more attractive PR-wise.
 
Alphahawk said:
Another thing to consider is that the PR cost of total automation would be a nightmare. At most chain stores there are only one row of self-checkout machines and about twelve or so open registers. It's been that way for about ten years now. Could the store replace all the checkout lines with robots? Technically, yes they probably could. but would people stand for it? Nope, they'd probably just go to the next store over.
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Self checkout sucks since you have to scan the bar codes yourself and to the grocery weighing. If they can make it so you just dump your stuff on the counter and the thing figures it out itself, it would be better. People don't want to do that stuff themselves.
 
At least you cannot automate a research position in automation. Yet.
 
Sapiens said:
Computer Programmer
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You start by turning common programming tasks into APIs and macros. Eventually, you get to the point where project managers can input specifications and an application comes out.

Even if some programmers remain, we can get rid of the vast majority of programmers.
 
Maintenance tech. Like in our Pressroom. No way you can automate fixing broken machines. Figuring out what went wrong and where exactly is a huge part of it. How on earth would a robot be able to do that?
 
We've done so little of what the thread was actually about. I didn't mean to go singularity doomsday on everyone. I just wanted to have people post jobs and then as a group we would point out how if at all it could be automated or supplemented by automation.

For instance Sonagrapher. How would we automate this?
 
Alphahawk said:
I think at a certain point it won't be "can we automate it?" it will be "do people want it automated?" Look at what happened with the movie industry and special effects:, late 90s and early 2000s. everyone was excited about the VFX revolution and digital backdrops, however in a post prequel world we're seeing people yearning for more practical effects and less digital.

My point is. you can essentially automate as much as you want, but eventually people are going to want that human touch.
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I'm all for practical effects, but even movie CGI production requires a lot of creativity and human input that would be difficult to automate. Pixar isn't just feeding movie parameters into render farms and getting The Incredibles out the other end.
 
Digital Marketing.

Actually, it would work, if clients weren't so inherently needy and ridiculous with their demands. And it'd take Google and CRMs in general not fucking everything up and catching mistakes.

At my job, we complete with people who use an automated system for SEO, and it just turns out bad.
 
teruterubozu said:
That's cuz those machines are only partially automated. You still have to run the scan, look up produce item, bag items, call someone to verify alcohol purchase, etc. They're crappy. An improved automated system would be more attractive PR-wise.
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You don't suspect that a large chain dumping all cashier jobs wouldn't spark a massive protest? I mean, look, we already have food stores that specialize in "all natural" and "organtic" foods, it wouldn't be out of the question for there also to be stores that specialize in having actual humans checking you out.

I think a lot of times, when discussing these jobs and this future, people tend to, ironically, not consider the human factor.
 
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