A machine that administers sedatives recently began treating patients at a Seattle hospital. At a Silicon Valley hotel, a bellhop robot
delivers items to people’s rooms. Last spring, a software algorithm
wrote a breaking news article about an earthquake that The Los Angeles
Times published.
Although
fears that technology will displace jobs are at least as old as the
Luddites, there are signs that this time may really be different. The
technological breakthroughs of recent years — allowing machines to mimic
the human mind — are enabling machines to do knowledge jobs and service jobs, in addition to factory and clerical work.
-NY Times
