Technological Unemployment Scream Room

[MachineGhost]

[MachineGhost]

Won't be long now! It turns out that Mobileye actually dropped Tesla as a customer due to the Auto-Pilot fatalities. Mobileye is the largest data warehouse for driving AI so far with decades of a head start and patents, but a consortium of auto manufacturers are joining together in a data sharing collaboration. Tesla -- in typical arrogant Elon Monk fashion -- will roll their own from the data transmitted by all of their cars on the road.

All new Tesla vehicles will have full self-driving hardware built in. "Eight surround cameras provide 360 degree visibility around the car at up to 250 meters of range," Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) says, adding that the vehicles will also incorporate twelve updated ultrasonic sensors and forward-facing radar "capable of seeing through heavy rain, fog, dust and even the car ahead."

[MachineGhost]

[MachineGhost]

Tesla expects one of its fully autonomous cars to drive across the USA by the end of next year! They're using NVIDIA's Drive PX 2 platform and the second generation of autonomous data-collecting hardware. Tesla is still the only company that can send over the air updates, modify performance and update the autonomous driving OS. They also plan to own their own network of autonomous self-driving taxis.

If you rented out your autonomous Tesla for 1.5 hours a day and charged $1.50 a mile, you'd make back the cost of the car within 5 years. Interesting business opportunity.

[MachineGhost]

In a major milestone for autonomous trucking, some 45,000 cans of Budweiser (NYSE:BUD) beer arrived late last week to a Colorado warehouse after traveling over 120 highway miles in a self-driving semi with no driver at the wheel. Otto, the autonomous truck subsidiary of Uber (Private:UBER), shipped the brew with a driver monitoring from the truck's sleeper berth for the entire two-hour journey.

[l82start]

In a major milestone for autonomous trucking, some 45,000 cans of Budweiser (NYSE:BUD) beer arrived late last week to a Colorado warehouse after traveling over 120 highway miles in a self-driving semi with no driver at the wheel. Otto, the autonomous truck subsidiary of Uber (Private:UBER), shipped the brew with a driver monitoring from the truck's sleeper berth for the entire two-hour journey.

well that just sucks... they are risking a country wide revolution, and maybe the beginning of an Apocalypse letting the beer truck arrive late

[Mountaineer]

In a major milestone for autonomous trucking, some 45,000 cans of Budweiser (NYSE:BUD) beer arrived late last week to a Colorado warehouse after traveling over 120 highway miles in a self-driving semi with no driver at the wheel. Otto, the autonomous truck subsidiary of Uber (Private:UBER), shipped the brew with a driver monitoring from the truck's sleeper berth for the entire two-hour journey.

well that just sucks... they are risking a country wide revolution, and maybe the beginning of an Apocalypse letting the beer truck arrive late

I think I just discovered l82start's real name.

http://babylonbee.com/news/local-mans-d ... eer-hobby/

[MachineGhost]

Yuck! Gag! Hurl! Spew! Over my dead body would I ever use it.

Separately, Apple is said to have dozens of software engineers in Canada building a car operating system and many of its staff were hired away from BlackBerry's (NASDAQ:BBRY) QNX. Another Apple (AAPL) team is developing software that will guide future self-driving cars and run on the OS, sources told Bloomberg, stating the company has developed VR simulators that test programs without taking the system onto public roads.

[MachineGhost]

As close as 2025 — that is in a mere 10 years — our advancing state of technology will begin disrupting our economy in ways we can’t even yet imagine. Human labor is increasingly unnecessary and even economically unviable compared to machine labor. And yet we still insist on money to pay for what our machines are making for us. As long as this remains true, we must begin providing ourselves the money required to purchase what the machines are producing.

Without a technological dividend, the engine that is our economy will seize, or we will fight against technological progress itself in the same way some once destroyed their machine replacements. Without non-work income, we will actually fight to keep from being replaced by the technology we built to replace us.

Just as our roads a decade from now will be full of machine drivers instead of human drivers, a 21st century economy shall be driven by human consumers, not human workers, and these consumers must be freely given their purchasing power. If we refuse, if we don’t provide ourselves a universal and unconditional basic income soon, the future is going to hit us like a truck — a truck driven solely by ourselves.

To allow this to happen would be truly foolish, for what is the entire purpose of technology but to free us to pursue all we wish to pursue? Fearing the loss of jobs shouldn’t be a fear at all. It should be welcomed. It should be freeing.

No one should be asking what we’re going to do if computers take our jobs.

We should all be asking what we get to do once freed from them.

https://medium.com/basic-income/self-dr ... .lqrh0wtkz

[Reub]

A young woman rammed the back of a police car while driving topless and Snapchatting with her boyfriend.

Is this the right thread for this story?

[flyingpylon]

A young woman rammed the back of a police car while driving topless and Snapchatting with her boyfriend.

Is this the right thread for this story?

Well, was she unemployed?

[Xan]

I think his point was that with self-driving cars, you can Snapchat topless in the car all you want with no problem.

Really, Reub's article could have fit perfectly into many threads!

[Reub]

I think his point was that with self-driving cars, you can Snapchat topless in the car all you want with no problem.

Really, Reub's article could have fit perfectly into many threads!

I probably could have placed it in the epic anti-cop thread too.

[MachineGhost]

Hey Reub, looks like you retired just in time! How about that.

Although Uber has barely tackled self-driving cars for the road, it's already dreaming about the skies. The company released a white paper envisioning a future - less than 10 years from now - in which commuters hop onto a small aircraft, take off vertically and within minutes arrive at their destinations. Like its taxi service, UBER's flying vehicles will be summoned through a mobile app, and would eventually be flown by autonomously.

[Reub]

I can envision this happening under a very controlling FAA, with strict limitations. Similar to how drones have been suppressed. But how will they keep the Uber aircraft from landing on my head?

They have also been toying with going to an automated air traffic control system for many years but it's been squashed by NATCA, the air traffic controller's union, and their Democratic lackeys.

[MachineGhost]

There is a contradiction in economic forecasting today that I’ve come to think of as the “robot paradox.” Some people seem confident that automation will take many workers’ jobs, yet they cannot point to evidence that technology has done anything in the last few years to replace work or add to productivity. Indeed, economic growth has been lackluster for the last few years, productivity growth is mysteriously moribund, and the last two years have been perhaps the best time this century for wage growth. This is not what the end of work looks like.

Since I have written repeatedly that policymakers should take the threat of automation seriously, I’ve developed several theories about the robot paradox. The first begins with humility: Maybe I’m wrong, and today’s statistics are evidence that machines will continue to supplement workers, as they have mostly done for the last few centuries, rather than erode overall employment. The second is that I’m right, just not yet: The economy is on the precipice of several wrenching changes—self-driving cars, machine-learning, and the continued digitization of shopping—that will replace hundreds of thousands of jobs in a future so near it is practically the edge of the present.

But the third theory is the most important, the most empirical, and yet the most overlooked. It is that the time to look for technological displacement of workers is not during recoveries, but rather during recessions. There is nothing to see now, but after the next downturn (or the recession after that), there will be.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar ... m_swu=6852