Are jobs obsolete?

[Kiopa_Matt]

How are our brains any different?

Is that even a real question? We think, computers compute. We learn, computers process data. We adapt to new surroundings and challenges, computers give error messages. We feel the consequences of our actions, computers don't. We learn from our mistakes, computers don't.

The human mind is magnificently powerful and complex, and I'm sure computer technology will get there at some point, but I very highly doubt it will be within our lifetimes. Right now, the gap is simply far too large still. A robot that can serve coffee is a long ways away from a robot that can learn new skills as needed, or come up with a rational solution to a problem its never encountered before.

 

[MentalyDisturbd]

Right now, the gap is simply far too large still. A robot that can serve coffee is a long ways away from a robot that can learn new skills as needed, or come up with a rational solution to a problem its never encountered before.

I don't know what you're going on about a fucking robot becoming a president? or not being able to 'think'.. maybe you need to learn how to think. At the end of the day, yes they are fucking robots not humans obviously, we know the difference, you don't have to tell us. This thread wasn't about, how humans are better than robots, it was about 'jobs becoming obsolete'.. if you can't see the connection between that and robots already being able to wait tables then, you're just making yourself sound dumb as fuck. A robot becoming a fucking president.. get the fuck out of here.

 

[Wicked Ice]

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[cardine]

Is that even a real question? We think, computers compute. We learn, computers process data. We adapt to new surroundings and challenges, computers give error messages. We feel the consequences of our actions, computers don't. We learn from our mistakes, computers don't.

Our brain computes and processes data. Did you really think something special was going on in our brains that was allowing us to think? We are nothing more than a very powerful computer.

The human mind is magnificently powerful and complex, and I'm sure computer technology will get there at some point, but I very highly doubt it will be within our lifetimes. Right now, the gap is simply far too large still. A robot that can serve coffee is a long ways away from a robot that can learn new skills as needed, or come up with a rational solution to a problem its never encountered before.

I think you underestimate the rate at which computers are advancing (see Moore's Law which gives a timetable for computers reaching the computational ability of our brains). And it is pretty apparent that the rate of the growth of computational speed is not going to be slowing down anytime soon.

So, a $1000 computer will have the same computational ability probably around 2030. After that it should only be another 15 years before we get software to a similar level.

If you are under 40 years old, barring a global catastrophe (like a nuclear war) I don't see how this couldn't happen during our lifetimes.