OK, enough with the small technologies that solve problems that have been around for decades. The pressing matter at hand is finding possible solutions to an even bigger problem that is not very apparent to the majority of the population.
In 1996 and 1997, 2 six-game chess matches took place between Chess Champion Gary Kasparov and the IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. The 1997 match was the first defeat of a reigning world chess champion to a computer under tournament conditions. Sadly, this defeat anticipated a problem that no one thought of at that time.
I need to recommend the video "Humans need not apply" (First link inserted at the end) that clearly describes the growing problem that has almost every person that reads the news worried.
Here is a quick summary of the video and the problem it explains: As we stopped using horses because cars were better, employers will stop using humans because robots will get better. Here are some jobs that can be replaced with their respective Automation Counterpart:
- Taxi, truck and airplane drivers - Self-driving cars or airplanes
- Baristas, servers, bartenders - Baxter and Robot Chef
- Lawyers, Researchers or doctors - Paperwork bots and Watson
- Artists and Creative jobs - Emily Howell, Watercolor Bot
If you think your job is safe from automation, there is probably an in-development bot out there that is coming for you too. Robots are cheaper, more reliable, more powerful and much more efficient than human can ever be. Seeing how technology advances today, we should bump into problems by 2025.
So, problems will arise. Now, what can we do to help protect our income? One interesting idea is to simply forget about work, focus on what we should do with our free time and follow the Basic Income Movement. This movement wants the government to give every person money so they can satisfy their basic necessities and focus on what they want.
This brings up a problem as everyone will only have the strict minimum if they become jobless. Although this can be a problem, this will give them the opportunity to learn about new things that could bring them more money and that has not been taken over by robots.
Here is another idea that may work: To stop the growing unemployment rates that these new technologies will bring, it is essential to prevent companies from owning all the robots and acquiring all the profits. People who lose their jobs to robots should own the robot that replaces them and earn money from that robot's work. With that income, it is then possible to buy/sell other robots to keep growing but there has to be a law where each person that has lost his/her job to a robot has to own at least one robot. This idea is an interesting way of indirectly giving jobs to people who lost their.
"Imagine if nobody had to work for living, how many would do useful things for others, how many would create something amazing." Federico Pistono
We are accelerating toward a Machine Revolution, that, like its younger sister The industrial Revolution, will change things for the better or for the worst of humanity. Remember The Matrix? Even if we learn how to deal with this problem in the next decades, who knows what the increasing intelligence of robots will mean for us. As Steven Hawkins has put it:
"Artificial Intelligence could spell the end of the human race" - Stephen Hawkins
- Humans need not apply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
- http://www.businessinsider.com/experts-predict-that-one-third-of-jobs-will-be-replaced-by-robots-2015-5
- http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/what-if-everybody-didnt-have-to-work-to-get-paid/393428/
- http://mic.com/articles/119896/after-robots-take-our-jobs-basic-income-is-the-best-solution
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