Lockdown - has it totally failed?

[trigger_andy]

10 minutes ago, Mark J said:

The current situation is clearly unsustainable. Most jobs will be automated in a decade or so. So if there's no work, what do we eat? Robots?

Most jobs will be automated in a decade or so? Don't be so melodramatic. That is simply not going to happen. 

[Mark J]

2 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Most jobs will be automated in a decade or so? Don't be so melodramatic. That is simply not going to happen. 

Why not? The technology is just about there already.

[tree-fancier123]

an affordable rough terrain robot to trim a big hedge on sloping ground should be here within 200 years and when it's introduced it must be made to pay income tax

[trigger_andy]

3 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Why not? The technology is just about there already.

What technology? 

[tree-fancier123]

one thing AI and robots are already beating humans is reading medical scans - an AI machine doesn't have an off day when it's mind wonders to matters outside work

[tree-fancier123]

although I would like to think a human doctor will be checking on scans and x-rays too, just in case some damp gets in the circuit boards. This damp in the circuit boards always worries me, what about circuit malfunctions in self driving cars - maybe they will take out a row of benefit claimants on the pavement

 

[the village idiot]

3 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

although I would like to think a human doctor will be checking on scans and x-rays too, just in case some damp gets in the circuit boards. This damp in the circuit boards always worries me, what about circuit malfunctions in self driving cars - maybe they will take out a row of benefit claimants on the pavement

 

Humans are much more prone to circuit malfunctions than advanced computers.

[donnk]

1 hour ago, tree-fancier123 said:

an affordable rough terrain robot to trim a big hedge on sloping ground should be here within 200 years and when it's introduced it must be made to pay income tax

already here mate, its called a Pole.

[Stubby]

2 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Most jobs will be automated in a decade or so? Don't be so melodramatic. That is simply not going to happen. 

Sergey ? ?

[trigger_andy]

40 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Sergey ? ?

Supposedly all 33,000 members here will be outta a job within 10 years and replaced by robots.  Simples I guess?