“We cannot quite know what will happen if a machine exceeds our own intelligence, so we can’t know if we’ll be infinitely helped by it, or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably destroyed by it” (Hawking, 2014).
Robotic Technology is beneficial for future humanity, but keeping one thing in mind it conveys both opportunity and threats in humanity. I will be discussing the threats and opportunity arises from the rise of artificial intelligence. Discussing the responsive collaborative AI innovation, Job opportunities and threats and Issues of physical computing.
In future, Singularity we should not be worried about that just because we are not going to be undisguisable from robots doesn’t mean they are about to take away our livelihood. Robotics technology is adapting to learn skills and to think like humans by cognitive thinking, smart algorithm through data and solve problems. An example of Algorithm like self-driving car tesla or ford focuses auto pilot parking, googles technology which are replacing skilled labour by the digital revolution.
In one way or another, an issue on what will younger generation follow the right career, a new opportunity might be available for them or not it’s not certain to be a doctor when there are robots who will be operating disease and software where it can be run through machines. On the other hand, let’s keep it positive after industrial revolution machines such as harvesters created for farming and created more jobs for people to participate because it will produce more capital wealth produce more income to produce more jobs for the future hence, cool jobs.
The robotics technology is likely to make kind of changes would be in fast food industries which is not the particularly skilled desired job and most people in the world rely on these jobs, part time jobs for university students and low-income earners. A company called momentum machines in San Francisco, are working on a hamburger robot who can make 400 hamburger in per hour. Automation is going to start with fast food market (Ford, 2015).
AI verse GI, Discussing how cognitive thinking is going implemented into emotional robots, the question is what do you think by machines that think? (Bongard, 2015). Joshua Bongard answered the very question in his essays machines being able to think like us. Robotics and computer can both be tracked in the late 1940’s Grey Walter demonstrated autonomous robot tortoises in 1948 while war efforts led to the First computer in the United States and England. (Hofmann, 2015). In terms of cognitive thinking we didn’t have any breakthroughs in planning or thinking yet, at the moment in silicon valley we are going to a rapid acceleration in pattern recognition technologies, machines for the first time are recognize objects, learning how to recognize scenes, recognizes the human face and understanding human language. (Markoff, 2015)
On the other hand, Jobs which are in digital sharing economy which is advancing technology such as Uber, Airbnb and Lyft didn’t exist in the past 7 years ago, new jobs are created by these digital sharing market when new technology is in the market.
“Just as most of us today have jobs, that weren’t invented 100 years ago the same would be true a 100 years from now” (Anderson, 2014). The reason this case came to court stemmed from the various provisions of the California labour code and federal law that provided protections and benefits to paid employees but not to independent contractors. (Epstein, 2015). Alike wise such online marketing jobs which are now famous in the digital era as Amazon and eBay has enabled the rise of artesian and inventors like the type of people existed in pre-industrial age, people who had created instances and then would connect with customers around the world.(Walter,2015)
Furthermore, if we look at the demographics, the digital and robotics technologies consuetude a very powerful economic threat to our livelihood, because of its effect on our jobs on income distribution and that it demands on us to focus on coping mechanisms that we do not yet have. (Magnus, 2015). Modern technology is been displacing us, capital is being substituted for labour, threaten jobs, living standards and fabric of the middle class which came after the first industrial revolution. But machines can’t do all kind of manual work because a lot of human cognitive and judgemental skills have not been replicated by machines. The principal rewards of modern technology are recurring to the owners of capital not the owners of labour in the main. If economic inequality rises so political economy rises so those who benefit from the political power seek changes which further their own economic advantage ending up without any coping mechanisms (Magnus, 2014).
The human mind is hardwired for social cognition and face to face interactions, we tend to get enthusiastic if we are talking to a physical robot with emotions and facial expressions. (Lemcio, 2015)
Companies like Steelcase, they manufacture architectural walls and primary office furniture’s and other steel products, but not just labour is behind this, collaborative robots “BAXTER” are assisting labours in making these products. “BAXTER” is highly flexible and re-deployable, easily integrated, safety by design and trained not programmed. Baxter is a general purpose robot, he can deliver any instructions based on the methods applied by the user. (Brooks, 2012).
On the other hand, ROOMBA vacuum is one of the innovation which is been used in the market nowadays, to consider a robot vacuum to help clean the floors of the house is one of the trust we are bringing towards the trends of robotics. (Brooks, 2003)
Furthermore, YUMI is another collaborative robot designed by ABB Robots company, keeping automation in mind YUMI operates off household current with integrated control system with dual arms and flexible which can perform many assembly tasks which is the solution for manual assembly, precise to 0.2 sec impact sensing padded arms which are all the technology built in to replicate the same skills as an assembly worker. It’s efficient with the speed of 1500mm/s with integrated grippers, suctions, integrated vision. We can even programme YUMI which is easy to use that way we are teaching YUMI how to deal with different task given not programming. In results YUMI produces fast production, good quality production and increase flexibility. YUMI can operate in very close collaboration with humans thanks to its inherently safe design. (Crowther, 2014)
Autonomous cars which is much more saver for the humans, 1.2 million people die in auto related accidents every year in the world. In United States of America 40% of the deaths involves alcohol hence robots don’t get drunk or get diverted using any smartphones or even being fatigued, this improvement of autonomous cars going to solve the problem for many of the senior citizens and disability people. Perhaps look at the bigger picture, in 2006 alone in London transportation produced 9.6 tonnes of CO2 emission, so if we all used autonomous cars with applied green standards we can have a healthier environment to live in.
Jobs opportunities are not limited, white collar jobs and blue colour jobs been slow growth since the era of industrial revolutionist. Transportation, Food service, Telecommunication. Robots can be copied, if I train one robot we can make 1 million can be copied with some software implemented. We have to make better machine which allows us to grow fasters. Our economy is based on capital and labour, labour is in steak but new jobs opportunity will arise as well but it’s not going to be a dream job. Jobs such as Accounting, Retail, Manufacturing, Translation, and Journalism are all jobs at risk (Pistono, 2012).
“WORK SAVES US FROM THREE GREAT EVILS: BORDEM, VICE AND NEED.”
(VOLTAIRE, 1759).
One threats in robotics revolution would be the termination of some jobs which is driven by passion and love. On the contrast, we humans made tools to make our work easier from sticks, to plow to tractors we have gone everyone needing to make food to, modern agriculture with almost no one needing to make food yet we have in abundance. Amazon is going to start using the drones for package item delivery to users by 2016, but there are some issues we need to think about, invasion of privacy in public spaces and item security issues this leads to technical and regulatory problems for drones. In America, anything flying under 400ft is consider a model airplane for which you don’t need a license, high crash rates and poor maneuvering are one of issues, the FAA(Federal Aviation Administration) concerned. So FAA allowed to test drones outdoors for the purpose of “research and development and crew training.” (Wydeven, 2016)
There is also a possibility of drones getting hacked and going to different wireless location, human theft concerns as well. Solution would be if all drones could be on mobile alerts when the drone is 100m away from their delivery locations or a tracking device attached to it. Study from Oxford University has suggested that 35% of the existing United Kingdom jobs are being automated in the next 20 years (Osborne, 2014)
Automation is implemented since 2014, and recently Google autonomous car Toyota Prius is already been recognized by everyone in silicon valley and in California, so what happens to the truck drivers in USA , nearly three in a half million people drive trucks for living, so some of the truck drivers might be affected by this technology.
We should not get scared of robots going to take our jobs, we should start to walk and work together with the robotic technology, it’s going to take a long time for robots to actually be smarter than us, and creativity is an asset for human beings. The fundamental difference between the human brain and electronic brain is biology. (Mols, 2012)
Secondly, Robots complements our human abilities & relationships to promote quality of life and to empower us to be the people we aspire to be (Breazeal, 2015). Future of robotics and artificial intelligence, including humans and machines working together, human’s teaching machines and machines teaching humans. (Goldberg, 2013)
Lastly, we should start project based learning in education in school and colleges which is all about creativity and innovation of ideas which robots are not capable off. Robots are more like companions rather than just tools.