{"id":74132,"date":"2017-12-02T23:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T07:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-robots-are-coming-but-will-they-really-take-all-our-jobs"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:00:48","slug":"the-robots-are-coming-but-will-they-really-take-all-our-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-robots-are-coming-but-will-they-really-take-all-our-jobs","title":{"rendered":"The robots are coming \u2013 but will they really take all our jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-robots-are-coming-but-will-they-really-take-all-our-jobs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Chancellor <a href=\"http:\/\/independent.co.uk\/topic\/philip-hammond\">Philip Hammond<\/a> announced in the Autumn Budget a \u00a3500m package of investment into tech initiatives, including the development of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Which must have had the Channel 4 executives ordering trebles all round, because with perfect timing they\u2019ve designated this week the \u201cRise of the Robots season\u201d, with a schedule that includes documentaries on the take-off of artificial intelligences (AIs) as consulting doctors, a <a href=\"http:\/\/independent.co.uk\/topic\/david-tennant\">David<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/independent.co.uk\/topic\/david-tennant\">Tennant <\/a>-narrated piece on the challenge of making robots as human as possible, and the one that\u2019s had the tabloids hot under the collar, today\u2019s <em>The<\/em><em> Sex Robots Are Coming \u2013<\/em> which needs little further explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Who and the Invasion of the Sex-Bots aside, though, is it actually possible that the dream of science fiction writers going back a century or more is on the verge of reality? Are we really about to live in the long-promised future of robots and AIs?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/robots-are-coming-but-will-they-take-our-jobs-uk-artificial-intelligence-doctor-who-a8080501.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/robots-are-coming-...80501.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in the Autumn Budget a \u00a3500m package of investment into tech initiatives, including the development of artificial intelligence. Which must have had the Channel 4 executives ordering trebles all round, because with perfect timing they\u2019ve designated this week the \u201cRise of the Robots season\u201d, with a schedule that includes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1878,6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-employment","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74132","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74235,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74132\/revisions\/74235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}