Is your job being replaced by technology?

[Locut0s]

You forget that he's got god on his side and anyone that has god on his side could never be wrongfully accused for anything.

That or it's gods will. And if it's gods will why interfere. It was meant to be.

 

[yhelothar]

Yup. I do genotyping in a lab and there are already machines out that does everything I do just that my lab isn't hi-tech enough to own one yet.

 

[kamikazekyle]

Back on topic, my work often involves automating various once-manual tasks. We'll eventually automate out most of Tier 1 techs, then Tier 2. And eventually, we'll automate ourselves out of a job so everything is run by robot overlords.

 

[Locut0s]

Yup. I do genotyping in a lab and there are already machines out that does everything I do just that my lab isn't hi-tech enough to own one yet.

Eww not only will that be replaced there's a More's law like thing going on there too. Won't be long before each person will be able to have their own entire genomes sequenced in a few hours or less.

 

[Malak]

So if you were wrongly convicted of murder you wouldn't get a lawyer?

Don't see how that event could ever occur.

 

[TridenT]

Well my job will be to make that technology that replaces other so...

 

[AlienCraft]

Until the package delivers itself, I'll be around to help it in and out of the current mode of transport.

 

[Locut0s]

Don't see how that event could ever occur.

Simple. The police knock on your door one day and say "Mr Malak we have a warrant for your arrest".

 

[Patranus]

Why replace jobs with technology when it is cheaper to do it in Inida?

 

[Malak]

Simple. The police knock on your door one day and say "Mr Malak we have a warrant for your arrest".

I don't imagine them ever finding the bodies so I don't expect this to ever happen.

 

[Locut0s]

Why replace jobs with technology when it is cheaper to do it in Inida?

Because there comes a point where a machine can do it cheaper even than the guy in India.

 

[Locut0s]

I don't imagine them ever finding the bodies so I don't expect this to ever happen.

Now that you have posted this here some serial killer will surface in your area and the police will find this post and arrest you.

 

[Patranus]

Because there comes a point where a machine can do it cheaper even than the guy in India.

Apparently you don't outsource things to India or China for a living.

 

[Locut0s]

Apparently you don't outsource things to India for a living.

No I don't. But I do know that the bottle cap making machine punching them out at 10,000 per hour makes them a hell of a lot cheaper than the cheapest Indian labor pounding them out by hand. Higher skilled jobs may sound immune to this but in the long run they may not be.

 

[Patranus]

No I don't. But I do know that the bottle cap making machine punching them out at 10,000 per hour makes them a hell of a lot cheaper than the cheapest Indian labor pounding them out by hand. Higher skilled jobs may sound immune to this but in the long run they may not be.

You would be surprised.

 

[Locut0s]

You would be surprised.

Well take customer support centers. Most of these call centers don't involve skilled labor. They are people who can speak and read English well enough to follow a script given to them by engineers. This is done to filter out the 95% or so of the problems people call customer support lines for that can be solved via a simple script. Is your computer plugged in, is the screen on etc etc... Voice recognition and computer learning algorithms have come a long way. Just look at Watson playing jeopardy. Doesn't take a big leap for me to see these kinds of calls being dynamically answered by a computer. And if the computer can't help you then you get to speak to a MUCH MUCH smaller pool of real people.

 

[Scouzer]

Well take customer support centers. Most of these call centers don't involve skilled labor. They are people who can speak and read English well enough to follow a script given to them by engineers. This is done to filter out the 95% or so of the problems people call customer support lines for that can be solved via a simple script. Is your computer plugged in, is the screen on etc etc... Voice recognition and computer learning algorithms have come a long way. Just look at Watson playing jeopardy. Doesn't take a big leap for me to see these kinds of calls being dynamically answered by a computer. And if the computer can't help you then you get to speak to a MUCH MUCH smaller pool of real people.

I'd say we're pretty far from that. Look at all the companies that have tried to do voice activated directories--they fucking suck. Ever called Bell? You can't get that piece of shit voice recognition to understand what department you want, nevermind solve your problem.

 

[Locut0s]

I'd say we're pretty far from that. Look at all the companies that have tried to do voice activated directories--they fucking suck. Ever called Bell? You can't get that piece of shit voice recognition to understand what department you want, nevermind solve your problem.

I find they work well enough for me. And the point is that they ALREADY HAVE replaced someone's job. Most big companies have these automated directories too, they aren't switching back. I think they have gotten pretty damn good actually.

 

[silverpig]

Nope. I'll be pretty safe I think.

 

[Jeff7]

Engineer - design and refinement work.
I won't be replaced by technology until we have sentient and creative computers. Maybe 50 years.

 

[jersiq]

The handwriting is on the wall for my job:

http://lteworld.org/blog/self-configuring-and-self-optimizing-networks-lte

 

[xSauronx]

yeah, I work IT at a hospital that is probably 6 - 8 years behind lmodern capabilities in doing software stuff(with absolutely no one investigating any of it).

so instead of computers doing things....i do things that computers can do, but that the hospital still wont implement for 2 or 3 years, at best (like windows update, some software installation, and workstation imaging)

i really need another job.

 

[Wyndru]

I'm in IT, but my job is in danger of consultants. That way they only get called in when needed. I'm seeing this happen quite a bit, as technology gets more reliable and doesn't require a constant staff on site to maintain.

My next move unfortunately will be to join one of the consultant firms and travel from place to place.

 

[boomhower]

Technology will never replace my job. I really can't see technology reducing the manpower much. Maybe a little but not much. Technology has certainly made us more effective and has been a lot of help in our day to day work but can't see it replacing us.

 

[Squisher]

No, my job is being replaced by cheap Chinese and Mexican labor.