Nkrs In response to: zerohedge.com/news... "Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people." - Vladimir Lenin
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Xasasfdasfd Back in the 1960s, we were talking about how the rising tide of automation was going to lead to leisure for many. 50 years later, I see the same chatter. I just don't believe it this time around.
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🦿 Lucian Marin And these robots are pretty dumb, they are programmed to do one task. Imagine when deep learning will take off and robots will do hundred of tasks with highest precision. More from Google: googleresearch.blo...
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Nkrs On one hand I think the technological advancement is outstanding, but on the other, it threatens to take bread off many tables. Foxconn fired 60k people - if each of those workers provides for a family of four, that means that a quarter of a million people just lost their income. I think that's frightening and that we'll see more and more people losing their jobs because what they were doing got automated (see also: qz.com/656104/a-fl...)
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