Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years

kkleiner writes "Rice University professor Moshe Vardi has been evaluating technological progress in computer science and artificial intelligence and has recently concluded that robots will replace most, if not all, human labor by 2045, putting millions out of work. The issue is whether AI enables humans to do more or less. But perhaps the real question about technological unemployment of labor isn't 'How will people do nothing?' but 'What kind of work will they do instead?'"

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Professor Moron!

[girlintraining]

Dude, you are the reason why tenure is a bad thing. If anyone suggested something as hopelessly stupid as what you just did in my college, I'd not just boot your ass, I'd build a special rocket to fire you into the Sun to rid the planet of your stupidity.

Every 10 years, some pundit comes along and says technology will have us all living the good life and little robots and shit will do all the work for us. But the truth is the same today as it has been throughout human history: It's cheaper to enslave other people to achieve that "good life" than it is to build the technology to elevate us all. And humanity, on the whole, has steadfastly chosen short term gain for some over long-term prosperity all. Hell, this ball of spinning rock you're on is actually starting to cook itself (and us) because of this fact of humanity.

The entire notion ranks right up there with believing that a better understanding of the problem will necessarily lead to better decisions. Lulz. You can lead a horse to water...