It is already happening and will only accelerate over time. Get ready for fully automated manufacturing with little to no human workers required. Even maintenance of the robots will ultimately be done by robots.
This is fantastic! I love watching the advancement of technology. This is great for Amazon. Imagine being able to eliminate having to recruit and hite employees and deal with all the pesky and expensive problems associated with maintaining them. If it were my business and I could implement a computerized system like this I wouldn’t hesitate.
Companies have no obligation to suffer inefficiency and have to hire people for some nebulous moral social contract reasoning if machines can do the work better faster cheaper.
Well it's certainly going to be good for their shareholders. As a society we'd like to speculate on super intelligence more than the actual jobs that will be lost. That's what happens when big companies own media like LinkedIn and X. The human topics are limited. There's no guts only glory. But the glorification of corporations doesn't enoble human concerns are real issues.
I don’t really care about jobs lost. After all, they didn’t exist before the company was created. Moreover, there should be no impetus to have to choose creating jobs over a more efficient technology that not only does a better job than humans and but also costs less.
Amazon and Walmart are the biggest employers of the United States, so if their warehouse automation really improves that's a lot of jobs - enough to disrupt the unemployment rate.
The problem? Generative AI does not seem to be creating many new jobs.
And bringin manufacturing back to the USA is not going to increase the number of factory workers. But it IS going to increase the number of factory robots!
Nice piece Michael
It is already happening and will only accelerate over time. Get ready for fully automated manufacturing with little to no human workers required. Even maintenance of the robots will ultimately be done by robots.
This is fantastic! I love watching the advancement of technology. This is great for Amazon. Imagine being able to eliminate having to recruit and hite employees and deal with all the pesky and expensive problems associated with maintaining them. If it were my business and I could implement a computerized system like this I wouldn’t hesitate.
Companies have no obligation to suffer inefficiency and have to hire people for some nebulous moral social contract reasoning if machines can do the work better faster cheaper.
Well it's certainly going to be good for their shareholders. As a society we'd like to speculate on super intelligence more than the actual jobs that will be lost. That's what happens when big companies own media like LinkedIn and X. The human topics are limited. There's no guts only glory. But the glorification of corporations doesn't enoble human concerns are real issues.
I don’t really care about jobs lost. After all, they didn’t exist before the company was created. Moreover, there should be no impetus to have to choose creating jobs over a more efficient technology that not only does a better job than humans and but also costs less.
I suspect China is having… mmm… quite a bit of edge in this one, to put it mildly.
Amazon and Walmart are the biggest employers of the United States, so if their warehouse automation really improves that's a lot of jobs - enough to disrupt the unemployment rate.
The problem? Generative AI does not seem to be creating many new jobs.
And bringin manufacturing back to the USA is not going to increase the number of factory workers. But it IS going to increase the number of factory robots!
Good points.