mgsantos

mgsantos t1_iyzpr7f wrote

Reply to comment by f10101 in Google says they have made a significant advance in allowing humans to communicate with robots using natural language, and claim an "order of magnitude" increase in capabilities over previous approaches. by lughnasadh

The idea of an unskilled worker is usually a misunderstanding by white collar managers of other types of skills that are not sitting on a computer doing math or writing reports.

Think about the least skilled job you can think of. A coffee shop cashier, for example, who is only there to type in simple orders into a computer. Now consider if this is really the only job of a cashier.

My business survives because our cashier is excellent at both attracting and keeping customers. Cross selling and raising the value of purchases. Can I automate her job with an iPad? Sure. Would it generate value for my company? No way.

So I tend to be a little sceptical about these "automate unskilled jobs" from reports written by people who never held an unskilled job or worked with "unskilled people".

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