programmed intelligence, page-5

benson, eight issues:

one, next Tuesday Kuka, the German company that develops robotics, will pit their fully developed robot against the German champion in a few sets of ping pong.

Singapore is the venue.

two, it is widely known that robots will replace 45% of the Australian work force within the next 20 years. Eg. they have robots that pick fruit.

three, as previously said on this forum if your children want a career of any sort just make sure that that career cannot be taken over by robots.

four, you can already buy a little round robot for under $200 that vacuums the house instead of the wife.

five, unfortunately law is an area robots will never ever work in. Unless of course they develop a program that ingrains over charging, waffle, posturing, just a touch of boarder line dishonesty and rat cunning.

six, Foxconn look like pulling out of China and putting nearly a million Chinese out of work. The company will set up back in the US with a near fully automated plant and US workers that will have work if their hourly rate is very low. Energy is becoming very cheap.

Apple, Microsoft etc look to follow.

seven,robots are already having an impact on global employment. Naturally China will move very quickly into robot development and implementation in order to keep manufacturing costs competitive.

eight, as the cost of robots normalizes across the globe manufacturing cost differentials will close.

To sum up robotics will alter the face of global economics in some ways will could never even guess.

Challenging, provocative, mesmerizing, exciting and scary.