On 2015-12-31, Ed Huntress wrote:
Now, about your "robot bartender." It's YOU who should look at those
Google listings, because none of them actually have replaced humans.
They're gee-whiz demonstration projects, like the hamburger assembling
robots that get Iggy excited. They aren't anybody's employment
problem. Whether they ever will be is open to speculation.

And the reason for that is that the mechanics of automation are no
longer the limiting factor in further implementation. The limiting
factor now is coordinating vast amounts of data -- control data,
monitoring data, optimizing data, ordering data -- it's a software
problem. General-subject reporters see the robots. Manufacturing
managers see the data piling up.

Do you really think that we must have people putting patties on buns
and taking orders? Come on

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