Chill out. The robots aren’t coming to your job – this yr’s AI frenzy is all hype

Robots won’t ever be everywhere as a result of there simply aren’t sufficient processors and circuits to make it occur (and consider the electrical energy invoice).

By distinction, you come prepared made. No processors required. True, you would possibly want a bit of coaching, however you may get there given time.

Plus there are folks in all places. More than one million of us are in search of work at any time. Who wants bots? People are extra enjoyable to have round, too.

Robots can’t deal with people. Robots have one final flaw. They cannot take care of the unpredictability of human beings.

Just have a look at driverless vehicles. They’d be completely comfortable, driving up and down empty roads, turning corners, reversing, stuff like that.

The drawback is that there are folks on these roads, and other people do the strangest issues.

In March, a driverless automobile from the tech startup Cruise was attempting to make a left flip when it smashed into Infiniti Q50 performing “donuts.”

For the uninitiated, this includes slamming the steering wheel arduous to at least one facet and going spherical and spherical in circles to make round rubber skid-marks.

That wasn’t within the driverless automobile’s algorithms.

Tesla’s self-driving vehicles will fail not as a result of the tech isn’t any good, however as a result of folks aren’t.

Which is why we’ll in the end destroy them, slightly than the opposite manner round. 

Robots have their makes use of. We could use them to slash NHS waiting lists, maintain sewers and manage investment portfolios. But we’ll nonetheless be those in cost. No wonder they think we’re scum. The drawback is, we’re unpredictable scum. And they can not deal with it.