Ralphie ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #1 Posted August 10, 2021 Good time to retaar, because I don’t think I have the patience to be a robot tender. Everything is machine learning these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #2 Posted August 10, 2021 Just now, Philander Seabury said: I don’t think I have the patience to be a robot tender. Robots need sex surrogates, too. Think you can swing that rather than being a simple tender? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share #3 Posted August 10, 2021 11 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Robots need sex surrogates, too. Think you can swing that rather than being a simple tender? I’m thinking… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #4 Posted August 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Philander Seabury said: I’m thinking… ...that @Randomguy's reputation with sex bots is gonna hurt him when the new overlords take over? Oh yeah. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #5 Posted August 10, 2021 The robots are better at my job than I am. They are usually retired within ten years, I worked for 48 years before I retired. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted August 10, 2021 Share #6 Posted August 10, 2021 Again? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted August 10, 2021 Popular Post Share #7 Posted August 10, 2021 The robots will never take an engineer's job. The robots will look at the engineer and say 'Don't bother, he's already one of us.' and then move on to the next person. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #8 Posted August 10, 2021 Not in my career they won’t! I wouldn’t want to be just starting out though . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #9 Posted August 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Wilbur said: Not in my career they won’t! I wouldn’t want to be just starting out though . Don’t be so sure, they already have an Otto pilot feature. If they lock or remove the controls they could fit at least two more passengers in the plane and charge maximum price for those seats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Popular Post jsharr ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Solution Popular Post Share #10 Posted August 10, 2021 Heck, a Roomba could do my job. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted August 10, 2021 Share #11 Posted August 10, 2021 They can have it 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #12 Posted August 10, 2021 8 minutes ago, Wilbur said: Not in my career they won’t! I wouldn’t want to be just starting out though . Ha! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #13 Posted August 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Razors Edge said: Ha! NOMINATED!!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted August 10, 2021 Share #14 Posted August 10, 2021 There's big money to be made in the job of fixing the robots when they break down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #15 Posted August 10, 2021 One of the big shot managers at the forge went to an equipment auction and bought a robot. It was like new. He had big ideas for it until they found out it didn’t come with a brain. They parked it in a corner up by the break room for a couple years and then They scrapped it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #16 Posted August 10, 2021 http://31.media.tumblr.com/6dfa532be82b67644520f75bbab4a65f/tumblr_mthzd4mry61qljtllo1_400.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted August 10, 2021 Share #17 Posted August 10, 2021 23 minutes ago, BR46 said: There's big money to be made in the job of fixing the robots when they break down. That will be done by other robots. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted August 10, 2021 Share #18 Posted August 10, 2021 21 minutes ago, Road Runner said: That will be done by other robots. With the worker shortage around here it will have to be done by somebody or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share #19 Posted August 10, 2021 1 hour ago, jsharr said: Heck, a Roomba could do my job. Congrats, mr solver! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share #20 Posted August 10, 2021 Ok, I just rebooted my computer and it is taking forever to repopulate Quick Access. So maybe they won’t be taking over all that quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #21 Posted August 10, 2021 5 hours ago, jsharr said: Heck, a Roomba could do my job. It's not the Roomba's fault that it sucks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #22 Posted August 10, 2021 5 hours ago, Longjohn said: Don’t be so sure, they already have an Otto pilot feature. If they lock or remove the controls they could fit at least two more passengers in the plane and charge maximum price for those seats. It could have been done 30 years ago. The FAA is not embracing it and I suspect the flying public won’t either. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted August 10, 2021 Share #23 Posted August 10, 2021 4 minutes ago, Wilbur said: It could have been done 30 years ago. The FAA is not embracing it and I suspect the flying public won’t either. Are the commercial jets have the technology to take off and land by themselves now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #24 Posted August 10, 2021 I’m a country boy and I have only rode subways a few times but I think they are driverless. I know the ones I rode in Montreal were. Of course you don’t have to steer those, they follow the tracks. Back in the late sixties the Westinghouse plant I worked at built a new building with everything futuristic. Instead of using a cart or a fork lift to move material they used a hovercraft type of device. It did the lifting and had a handle like a floor scrubber. You push it wherever you want it to go. Heavy loads would glide real easy riding on air. They also had a driverless train to bring material to and from the new building up to my building through a long tunnel. It ran by computer using a punch card (remember those). The tunnel had a roll up door on the end of it and the train would stop, send out a signal and the door would open and the train would drive through. Sometimes the train would have a brain fart and after it opened the door it would just sit there for five minutes or so. The storeroom man was freezing with all the cold air blowing through the tunnel. He would go over and put the door back down. When the train got over it’s brain fart it would continue on and bust right on through the door. They would put a new overhead door up and have an engineer ride the train for a week to see what the problem was. The storeroom guy didn’t close the door while the engineer was on there because he would clear the brain fart and wouldn’t leave the door open for a long time. I don’t think they ever figured out what was happening. Eventually they scrapped the train and had a guy driving a tow motor pull the train. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted August 10, 2021 Share #25 Posted August 10, 2021 One of our turbine blade casting lines at Pratt and Whitney had robots on the rain sander line (making sand molds). They had circles painted around them on the floor marked as kill zones. There were little stick figures painted on the sides of some of the robots. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted August 11, 2021 Share #26 Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Wilbur said: It could have been done 30 years ago. The FAA is not embracing it and I suspect the flying public won’t either. Don’t we already do that? We strap rockets on the wings instead of passengers inside. They ‘pilot’ a bunch of them from a bunker in Battle Creek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted August 11, 2021 Share #27 Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Longjohn said: I’m a country boy and I have only rode subways a few times but I think they are driverless. I know the ones I rode in Montreal were. Of course you don’t have to steer those, they follow the tracks. Back in the late sixties the Westinghouse plant I worked at built a new building with everything futuristic. Instead of using a cart or a fork lift to move material they used a hovercraft type of device. It did the lifting and had a handle like a floor scrubber. You push it wherever you want it to go. Heavy loads would glide real easy riding on air. They also had a driverless train to bring material to and from the new building up to my building through a long tunnel. It ran by computer using a punch card (remember those). The tunnel had a roll up door on the end of it and the train would stop, send out a signal and the door would open and the train would drive through. Sometimes the train would have a brain fart and after it opened the door it would just sit there for five minutes or so. The storeroom man was freezing with all the cold air blowing through the tunnel. He would go over and put the door back down. When the train got over it’s brain fart it would continue on and bust right on through the door. They would put a new overhead door up and have an engineer ride the train for a week to see what the problem was. The storeroom guy didn’t close the door while the engineer was on there because he would clear the brain fart and wouldn’t leave the door open for a long time. I don’t think they ever figured out what was happening. Eventually they scrapped the train and had a guy driving a tow motor pull the train. The transit trains in Metro Vancouver have been driverless for several decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 11, 2021 Share #28 Posted August 11, 2021 4 minutes ago, shootingstar said: The transit trains in Metro Vancouver have been driverless for several decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 11, 2021 Share #29 Posted August 11, 2021 I was in Montreal for Expo 67, that’s been a few decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted August 11, 2021 Share #30 Posted August 11, 2021 2 hours ago, BR46 said: Are the commercial jets have the technology to take off and land by themselves now? They effectively do. No auto takeoffs but they do have auto land. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted August 11, 2021 Share #31 Posted August 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Wilbur said: It could have been done 30 years ago. The FAA is not embracing it and I suspect the flying public won’t either. More than 60 years ago I at the age of 12/13 or so sat in a seat next to the operator in a SAGE center in Bangor Maine and watched an Interceptor aircraft perform a completely automated interception, firing it's weapons and returning to the landing pattern at it's base. There was a pilot back in those days. He took of and landed. My cousin was one of the officers at the site. I'm not sure to this day if my mother and I were really supposed to be there. Computer people might be interested in the first automated air defense system and the invention of things that did not exist. This is a very longish article but interesting. https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/history/sage-semi-automatic-ground-environment-air-defense-system Still needed a human pilot there for when the computers hit the fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted August 11, 2021 Share #32 Posted August 11, 2021 On 8/10/2021 at 11:03 AM, Philander Seabury said: Good time to retaar, because I don’t think I have the patience to be a robot tender. Everything is machine learning these days. It's going to get to the point where a "full time job" will be something like 6 hours, 4 days/week. There won't be enough work for humans to do and if you don't pay them full time and take all the profit due to the machines for the company, the world will descend into anarchy. Remember, 100 years ago and before, a lot of people were working 12 hour days, 6 days/week. There are some jobs like teacher where you may have a team of two that works half of what a current teacher's job is and school coaches that work all week throughout their season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 11, 2021 Share #33 Posted August 11, 2021 Just now, MickinMD said: There are some jobs like teacher where you may have a team of two that works half of what a current teacher's job is and school coaches that work all week throughout their season. Teachers do complain - near incessantly - about working too many hours. They may finally get a break! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share #34 Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, MickinMD said: It's going to get to the point where a "full time job" will be something like 6 hours, 4 days/week. There won't be enough work for humans to do and if you don't pay them full time and take all the profit due to the machines for the company, the world will descend into anarchy. Remember, 100 years ago and before, a lot of people were working 12 hour days, 6 days/week. There are some jobs like teacher where you may have a team of two that works half of what a current teacher's job is and school coaches that work all week throughout their season. I think it was John Maynard Keynes who thought that decades ago and he was WRONG!, as RG and I would say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted August 11, 2021 Share #35 Posted August 11, 2021 17 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said: I think it was John Maynard Keynes who thought that decades ago and he was WRONG!, as RG and I would say! Didn't he want to pay people with Keynesium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share #36 Posted August 11, 2021 3 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: Didn't he want to pay people with Keynesium? Dunno, but I think he was the lead singer for Tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted August 11, 2021 Share #37 Posted August 11, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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