Will A.I. Put Lawyers Out of Business?

[chessman]

There have been many instances of large groups of workers being displaced by technology. The most dramatic example is agriculture in the U.S., which used to employ 95% of the population and now employs 3%. What happened to them? Some succeeded in learning new jobs and some didn’t. The transition will be harder now because the education required for a successful transition is much more extensive when it is high tech instead of basic manufacturing. What can we do? Start giving our people real education and subsidize them during the transition.

[Formerly YB-2]

Yes....... have to figure out how to keep the masses occupied. As much as I do not care about professional sports (that includes college), am thinking expansion of same and other entertainment will be expanded to take up folks time. After all, some people actually enjoy C&W noise, so should be simple enough to occupy their time.

[PHC1]

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/doctor-te...s-video-screen

[PHC1]

Walmart wants store workers to help out customers instead of mopping up floors and unloading boxes in backrooms. So it's increasingly turning to robots to fill those tasks.

The world's largest retailer announced Tuesday that it is adding thousands of new robots to its stores. By next February, it expects to have autonomous floor scrubbers in 1,860 of its more than 4,700 US stores. Walmart will also have robots that scan shelf inventory at 350 stores. And there will be bots at 1,700 stores that automatically scan boxes as they come off delivery trucks and sort them by department onto conveyor belts.


Walmart plans to soon add more than 3,900 robots to stores across the U.S.
The robots will perform tasks such as scanning products, sorting shipments, cleaning floors, and readying online purchases for pickup.
Walmart says the robots will free up time for employees to help customers, while critics say its a long-term move toward replacing human workers.

[PHC1]

Moley Robotics, a London-based company that has developed a prototype “robochef” designed for the home.

Unveiled today (2017) at Germany’s Hannover Messe technology fair, the machine consists of two remarkably dexterous robotic arms installed atop a cooking area, complete with hobs, a sink and an oven. The robot’s sophisticated and fully articulated hands were created by Shadow Robot Company, another London-based firm, whose products are used all over the world, including by NASA.

Rather than cooking like a machine, the system works by first recording human actions in 3D and then converting these into highly precise movements. The prototype was trained by chef Tim Anderson, who spent time whipping up original dishes in a motion-capture studio. During a demonstration, Anderson had the robot make a crab bisque, but he told BBC News it can do anything from a bit of prep to completing an entire dish.


According to Moley’s website, the firm hopes to bring a consumer version to market by 2017 that will feature several additions, including a library of thousands of recipes, a dishwasher and a refrigerator. This means you not only won’t have to cook or prep for yourself if you can’t be bothered, but you don’t even need to wash up afterward. Marvelous. You will even be able to control it remotely using an app, which means you could order your dish to be ready for when you get home.

Eventually, Moley hopes to produce a version complete with cameras so that users can teach it to create their own dishes, which can then be uploaded to a digital recipe library and shared with other people. They also want later models to be capable of dealing with tricky things like stopping mixing at the appropriate time to prevent splitting or over-beating.

“Something would change; we would see it in the sensor data. Maybe something gets stiffer or softer,” Shadow’s Rich Walker explains to BBC News. “We should be able to sense that and use it as the point to transition to the next stage of the cooking process.”

Of course, such sophisticated technology won’t come cheap, and will set you back close to $15,000 (£10,000), but hopefully the price will go down over time as with any new technology.

[Via Moley, BBC News and Wired UK]

[PHC1]

Robotic Chef does all the cooking for you... https://youtu.be/SQjXaTlGHIY

[Cohibaman]

Plus, if programmed properly, it’ll wash its hand(s) after using the restroom - every time.

[Formerly YB-2]

Just another of the many reasons to never set foot in a Walmart (except my annual visit to stock up on Mobil 1).

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AI algorithms make important decisions about you all the time -- like how much you should pay for car insurance or whether or not you get that job interview. But what happens when these machines are built with human bias coded into their systems? Technologist Kriti Sharma explores how the lack of diversity in tech is creeping into our AI, offering three ways we can start making more ethical algorithms.



https://youtu.be/BRRNeBKwvNM

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AlterEgo AI.

AlterEgo: a wearable AI device with the potential to let you silently talk to and get information from a computer system, like a voice inside your head. Learn more about how the device works and the far-reaching implications of this new kind of human-computer interaction. (Ethics baked right into the design.. )

https://youtu.be/TrofjEAetVs