AI vs IQ

We have been saying, either today or tomorrow robots will takeover somehow, and we are pretty aware of what is happening around us, the retrenchment storms we came across this year (2019) where robots kicked out many bread winners out of their jobs.

This is the sad reality we are facing, and the force mentioned saying is true, either today or tomorrow robots will takeover somehow. And the reason for this is based on what I have discussed earlier on about the Maslow's hierarchy of needs on human motivation topic. This becomes sad because the decision makers and policy makers are tired of considering human needs, companies out here are completely bragging about the way robotics has saved them millions of rands compared to what should have been spent on humans, this is because they understand but put a blind eye towards the essentials of human motivation, the needs that needs to be fulfilled, and this brag comes at the expense of a certain family that lost the small bread by have depended or relied upon.

Robots also has their own kinds of needs, and it seems s if the business directors decided to rather meet the needs of robots than this of human beings.

Take this, no other way will our children to be considered enough to replace the robots and restore the lost hope on humans for profit generation, others will be lucky to be the ones who will replace the programmers, but not the machines.

As this goes, how will the economy of our countries be strengthen? With more people looking jobs over something that does not even needs salary to buy food. I have thought of this for time now, if 500 families are robed by this artificial intelligence, how then will the shop owners be able to generate profit, while more and more are being jobless? And not because they are incompetent.

I am worried of people who are saying 2020 is the year of job opportunities for themselves, because there is no such, 2020 is still the same year as this one, job posts will be available, you apply they like you, you are employed. There is no opportunity there, same procedures are still going to be followed, but opportunities are for robots, the are the ones that will definitely make it in the 22nd century.

Food for thought: what can be done to stop such volumes of retrenchments due to AI?

The picture in this post, shows a robot kicking an employee out of his work station.