{"id":127646,"date":"2021-09-13T23:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/do-we-need-humans-for-that-job-automation-booms-after-covid"},"modified":"2021-09-13T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T06:22:40","slug":"do-we-need-humans-for-that-job-automation-booms-after-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/do-we-need-humans-for-that-job-automation-booms-after-covid","title":{"rendered":"Do we need humans for that job? Automation booms after COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-we-need-humans-for-that-job-automation-booms-after-covid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Automation will drag on at the normal pace. 2025 i think will be the key year, where Human Level hands could turn up on the humanoid robots, and an early phase of Human Level AI turns up; if those 2 things happen automation of jobs will really start to move fast.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby\u2019s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori \u2014 an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t call sick,\u201d says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at its Arby\u2019s franchise this year in Ontario, California. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t get corona. And the reliability of it is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic didn\u2019t just threaten Americans\u2019 health when it slammed the U.S. in 2020 \u2014 it may also have posed a long-term threat to many of their jobs. Faced with worker shortages and higher labor costs, companies are starting to automate service sector jobs that economists once considered safe, assuming that machines couldn\u2019t easily provide the human contact they believed customers would demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automation will drag on at the normal pace. 2025 i think will be the key year, where Human Level hands could turn up on the humanoid robots, and an early phase of Human Level AI turns up; if those 2 things happen automation of jobs will really start to move fast. Ask for a roast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1878,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-employment","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}