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AdorableBackground83 t1_j6ik97m wrote

Professional athlete perhaps.

I don’t know of an advanced robot/artificial intelligence right now that can walk onto an NBA court and drop a 100 point triple double.

But all jokes aside. Pretty much all normal every day human jobs are gonna be automated within the next 30-40 years tops.

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Redditing-Dutchman t1_j6k0eyd wrote

Athletes and dancers for example will always be there. What would even be the point of watching a robot run the 100 meter for example? If you already make robot legs better than human legs then why not just use wheels. Not everything makes sense to automate. Humans will always want to see what humans can do, in sports and theater and such. A basketball team of robots would become a competition of which team has the best programmers, not which players have the best skill. It would be fun to watch once but then I want to see human players again.

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erkjhnsn t1_j6kccrk wrote

I disagree. Any service based business or labour jobs will be required for a very long time.

Our AI technology will rocket forward, but a full takeover of the workforce is limited by our advancements in robotics, which is limited by many factors, mostly energy requirements and batteries. Even if we do have sufficient tech to have robots take some of these jobs, humans will be much cheaper.

I think this sub forgets that service-based and labour jobs are >50% of the workforce because most people here (and on reddit in general) have desk jobs, often in tech.

What kind of technology would you need to replace a plumber to come to your house? What about a gardener? Or a furnace repair technician? Each would require entirely different sets of tools and hardware even if they are fucking genius, sentient AI. I think we are still very far away from that.

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neneksihira t1_j6le1zf wrote

Exactly, interpersonal relationship-based work and jobs involving a variety of physical tasks will be hardest to automate as robotics is a long way behind computing right now.

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Bierculles t1_j6k7cs7 wrote

Imagine robot nba, it starts with robots slowely replacing bottom rung players and 50 years later it's just a field full of hyperoptimized machines boosting over the field and dribbling so fast the games are watched in slow motion because otherwise nobody has a clue whats going on.

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