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[–]aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa01 858 points859 points  (44 children)

The beginning of automation. A ton of jobs are already automated but this decade was probably the true beginning, from testing driverless cars and drones to entire service industries being replaced by self service counters. This will truly be the beginning of automated industries.

[–]fulaghee 215 points216 points  (11 children)

To be fair, it began long long ago with the industrial revolution.

But I'd say we'll remember 2010 as the birth of AI automation.

[–]EchoCollection 74 points75 points  (9 children)

Surprised to see AI this far down. It may just be machine learning and if statements for now, but we already have deep fakes and mostly autonomous driving. If the trend continues, AI will have a huge impact on society and we will see the 2010s as the dawn of it all.

[–]infini7 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Andrew Yang is surprised, too.

[–]EchoCollection 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey I hope his ideas gain traction

[–]easwaran 7 points8 points  (6 children)

I'm really not sure the 2010s has a whole lot more than the 2000s. Google Translate suddenly got really good around 2005, and the Netflix prediction algorithm was already pretty good by 2008. Self-driving cars went from failing after 1 mile in 2004 to completing the race through the desert in 2005.

In the 2010s, all these things have continued their development. But they haven't really made any major transitions. The AI no longer seems futuristic. But it still hasn't actually made any real changes to the way people live, other than that now you can tell Alexa to turn the lights on and off, or to read Wikipedia for you.

[–]im_thatoneguy 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Google Translate: Launched in 2006 as a traditional rule based program. Relaunched in 2016 with trained neural networks aka "AI".

Self Driving Cars: 2005 Hard coded traditional applications. 2015 Neural networks driving complex vision labeling systems.

In the 00's we tried to address two problems with computers and pretty much hit a wall. Neural Networks and learning algorithms are what we now think of as "AI".

[–]EchoCollection 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah massive user generated data sets as an input and neural network training are definitely a step above pre-programmed software designed to mimick human traits

[–]tiptipsofficial 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Capital moved behind goog once investors realized they wouldn't have to pay as many human employees to individually index and rank webpages like was done at competitors such as yahoo etc. This is the real reason the non algo-driven search engines lost the popularity contests.

[–]TSPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)


They've made enormous changes to the way people live, just not the kind that are immediately noticeable.

Most video and social media services use algorithms that have been very successful at increasing the amount of time people engage with their platforms. The number of people deciding to watch one more video or scroll a bit further is getting larger every day.

To give an example of how insidious this can be people have already shown that these algorithms target people who are vulnerable, whether that be kids, the elderly or even stuff like knowing you just went through a breakup.

They de-prioritise content that might get you to stop watching such as outdoors-y style content. If they could they get you to sit there on their platform 24/7.

AI is absolutely fucking our brains and lifestyles.

[–]aspankdmonkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I work for an automation company that had made and sold systems since the 90's, automation had been there a while, just not as much where the consumer can see.

[–]Celsiuc 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The Age of Artificial Intelligence will in my opinion blow up even more in the 20s.

[–]redyellowblue5031 75 points76 points  (0 children)

The 1800's and beyond would like to have a word.

[–]oorakhhye 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Quick! Turn on the Andrew Yang signal!

[–]Sjipsdew 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yang gang 😎😎😎😎😎

[–]luiofficialbeats 4 points5 points  (0 children)

robots are going to maintain robots that maintain robots that make beyond meat burgers and that's just the truth

[–]vocalfreesia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The 20s are going to bring a resurgence of the luddites

[–]Ralph-Hinkley 2 points3 points  (18 children)

Where will the HS kids work?

[–]GamerZ44 0 points1 point  (17 children)

Hopefully working with machines as technicians.

[–]DOugdimmadab1337 2 points3 points  (16 children)

They ptobably won't have a job. I don't know why politicans haven't limited the amount a company can use of automation. People need jobs and if they keep going, nobody but the rich have a job and all the poor people have nowhere to work.

[–]klmccall42 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Why stop progess? If technology can produce things more efficiently and better than a human. We're just limiting ourself. We don't need jobs. We need:

1) income

2) sense of purpose

3) sense of community

All of those things DO NOT have to be married to a job.

[–]DetectiveBeluga 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lol, if nobody but the rich have a job they won't have much anyone to sell to. You can't put a limit on efficiency and innovation, you have to just try to deal with the outcomes of it and rework policy and society to accompany it, because it's going to come like it or not. You can't force firms to employ people. Directly, at least. There's going to be a lot more unemployment as thousands of jobs get automated away. Either something will emerge to accommodate them, or we will need a universal basic income.

[–]AverageLatino 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That has been the plan all along... Lol ok no, but I don't think the government will put regulations over robots; once they outperform workers for less money, companies are gonna lobby the shit out of everything to ensure it stays that way.

The short term profit is always the priority of most companies. If we haven't done anything about climate change for almost 40 years, automation won't be any different, in my opinion, I could be missing something.

[–]Sjipsdew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted you have a solid point

[–]FreakinGeese 0 points1 point  (9 children)

And? Everything will be really cheap, so it's fine.

[–]Sjipsdew -1 points0 points  (8 children)

Doesn't matter how much stuff costs if nobody has a job

[–]FreakinGeese 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Of course it will. If we live in a post scarcity environment, then working is pointless.

[–]Sjipsdew -1 points0 points  (6 children)

In a post scarcity world how do the rich keep their power and status?

[–]FreakinGeese 1 point2 points  (5 children)

They don't?

[–]Sjipsdew -1 points0 points  (4 children)

And they will just let that happen?

[–]GamerZ44 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of jobs automation will take over, but that will open up even more jobs and make everything cheaper.

[–]DonaldTrumpisPres 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the biggest legacy I have seen in this thread

[–]Fean2616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Robotic automation in business around data capture and input through to actually fully doing anything and everything.

[–]Richandler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We've already seen what's replacing it though. YouTube star was never a thing. Having a job as an editor is more prevalent than ever. Entertainment, Sports and STEM will continue to grow.

[–]michaelochurch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not the beginning of automation– automation started with the Jacquard Loom in 1804, if not earlier– but it's the inflection point at which automation (amplified by inelasticity in the job market, meaning that small reductions in job availability trash wages and working conditions) has rendered centrist corporate capitalism permanently unstable.

We're now at the point where a middle-class job market is ceasing to exist, because any career that supports a middle-class income will be flooded by people fleeing the effects of automation elsewhere. (Programming collapsed in the 2010s-- it's now full of incompetents just capable enough to do Jira tickets and endure "Agile" meetings.) The protected professions will be cornered by the well-connected upper class and everything else will be for shit, and we'll become a third-world country where no one gets rich by working-- wealth is something you're born with or without.

This is why we're seeing right-wing, nationalist counterrevolutions all over the world; the elites have realized it's going to be fascism or socialism, and believe they'll fare better under fascism. As a member of the 99 percent, as well as a human being, I'd prefer socialism.

[–]hizeto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

similar to how 2010s was known as the rise of smartphones and social media. Social media/smartphones was invented in late 2000s but wasn't as ubiquitous as it is nwo. Same will apply to automation and probably see climate change have a bigger impact

[–]GuyWithTriangle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don't forget the obliteration of millions of jobs and probably laying the groundwork for a permanent economic collapse