Detroit car factories used to have legions of painters, welders, etc. Robots have replaced them all.

Later, the same car factories had legions of computer programmers. Between "high-level" computer languages and outsourcing the programming job around the world, the departments are much smaller.

Self-driving cars, buses, trucks, (trains?), will replace many more jobs in the not-so-distant future.

Military pilots may be displaced by drone console operators. If so, can commercial pilot automation be far behind?

I don't see near-term automation of plumbers, electricians, nurses. If I were starting out, I might consider one of those.

I think plenty of people are aware of the dangers that technology poses to their jobs. I'd agree that most are unprepared for the consequences, and may not see a way to get prepared. Here, government can help (not repubs).

to find work in those fields.

As for republicans not helping, I hope not!

If we don't implement it and they do, I worry that most of that 78% of us who are living paycheck to paycheck will become low hanging fruit to convert to GOP voters.

such as medical, education, government, legal and all. The first of course will be the repetitive jobs such as transportation, warehousing and retail, but the others are not far behind as AI advances.

Machinery built with sophisticated AI will replace most floor nurses, with maybe 2-3 people on the floor. Same for Doctors. AI is about taking accumulated knowledge and applying it, then being able to quickly add to the knowledge base with new methods are developed. AI is a cost-cutting corporation's dream, but it's application will bring about a new set of ethical issues that we can't envision today.

All in all, the robot would be a lot safer, though slower, more boring, and less panic-stricken or argumentative or just distracted.

I hope the self-driving cars get "mature" before I'm too old to drive.

self-driving vehicles have the potential of being much safer than those driven by failable humans. It will take a while longer but it is pretty much inevitable.

Even if they are only a bit safer at the outset, their many other advantages are v compelling.

Safer roadways, no road rage, less pollution... I can't wait!

Not to say that the transition will be painless but the result will be a dream come true - at least for me

It's a great work in progress but there's been way too many accidents because people don't know how to use it properly. It's a good idea, sure, but it's a long way to go before we can ditch the human component of driving.

something to be desired. It works ok with predictable situations, but throw in an accident where vehicles are in unexpected positions on the road and the auto-drive plows into something that an alert human would have seen and taken preventative action against.

told me the other day that radiologists will be (are) a dying profession as AI will do most imaging analysis and, do it better.

Glad he's aware now. I feel really bad for anyone listening to people who say it's nothing to worry about

And no AI is going to use paddles to jumpstart a heart. And while mammos for example are going to be compute read, does an AI tell the very frightened woman& family "that looks cancerous?" Those are not part of Radiologic Technologist scope of practice in this decade.



A prev post of mine---
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12964947
Computerd Diagnosis has been used for Mammogram reads, least 8 years

A BBC.com article from January 2020

source--https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50857759

tittle--Artificial intelligence is more accurate than doctors in diagnosing breast cancer from mammograms, a study in the journal Nature suggests.



snip--"An international team, including researchers from Google Health and Imperial College London , designed and trained a computer model on X-ray images from nearly 29,000 women.

The algorithm outperformed six radiologists in reading mammograms."


snip--" The current system in the NHS uses two radiologists to analyse each woman's X-rays. In rare cases where they disagree, a third doctor assesses the images."


snip--" In the research study, an AI model was given anonymised images, so that the women could not be identified.

Unlike the human experts, who had access to the patient's history, AI had only the mammograms to go on."



more at article.


For the records, with high quality computer images, X-ray films from an urgent care in Iowa, can be read by Radiologists in Columbus Ohio

draw blood because of the variations in people's vein structure.

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