What jobs will robots do?

[Gecko1978]

A BBC article talks about humanoid robots in the home but plays down the replacement of jobs by robots

BBC News - How long until a robot is doing your chores?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66288309

So what jobs do we think by say 2043 (end of my working life) will be done by robots and why?

My suggestions:

1) delivery drivers essentially all cars will drive themselves robots will drop a package at your door
2) warehouse work again robots will lift and carry goods to the delivery robot
3) Pharmacists / Dr's diagnosis will be done by AI and robots it might take a human to stitch you up etc but most of the analysis will be done by a non human
4) defence sadly no government is never going to pass up the opportunity to do bad stuff so armed humanoid robots seems inevitable

[ScotHill]

Part-time whirrrrrk.

C3POst Office.

R2 Detour sign.

HALal butcher.

Twikihole surgery.

Marvintner.

[rodericb]

Post in N,P&E

[JagLover]

I think the wider implications are for many office based tasks. AI is improving all the time in terms of obtaining and analysing data, just the past few years has seen rapid progress.

Look at a programme like "Datasnipper" for example.

[Terminator X]

Can't see it myself. People always assume the future will come quicker than it actually does. Flying cars were supposed to be here en masse in 2000 etc.

TX.

[FourWheelDrift]

Any job they want.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

[Tom8]

Hopefully politics

[bearman68]

Can't wait for one to drive me home from the pub, and clean my house, and cut the lawn and so on. But given that it's hard to even get Netflix to work properly where I live, this just seems like an impossible dream, and modern tech will just see the reliability of modern life just become worse and worse.
I can well imagine the robot needing more programming, resetting, software updates, and other bks, so it will be easier and more reliable to go and hack the lawn about with an antique mower.

TL:DR Tech is unreliable - it won't happen for ages.

[Cold]

They already vacuum the floor, turn on the lights, cut the lawn, turn on the heating/water, feed the cat, order the groceries. Some even will cook your evening meal.

[bloomen]

Terminator X said:

Can't see it myself. People always assume the future will come quicker than it actually does. Flying cars were supposed to be here en masse in 2000 etc.

The future comes rapidly, but most of it's st.

It also rarely ends up where we predicted or expected it would.

[PastelNata]

Comparing tech advancements between 1900 and 1950, 1950 and 2000, there has been quite an exponential leap generally.

2000-2050 will no doubt show an even wider gap. 25 years from now is a long time in tech and progress is being made in robotics faster than ever before.

I wouldn't discount robotics taking over most manual labour and many office-based tasks by 2050.

Certainly by 2100 I can see humanoid robots being a thing, no different to owning a washing machine is today to do all the household chores - and more, our NP&E Covid Thread Regular's descendants may find robotic 'comfort partner's' to fulfil their lives and keep them from posting gobste on Forums.

[ralphrj]

bloomen said:

Terminator X said:

Can't see it myself. People always assume the future will come quicker than it actually does. Flying cars were supposed to be here en masse in 2000 etc.

The future comes rapidly, but most of it's st.

It also rarely ends up where we predicted or expected it would.

Very true.

I think if you mention the possibility of a robot replacing a human worker most people will think of manual jobs (i.e. physical labour). However, a robot doesn't need to be physical. We are using software robots to automate back off functions such as account reconciliations, supplier invoice input etc. The impact may be in unexpected areas. For example, lots of companies have outsourced transactional work to cheaper countries like India. We are now looking to close our outsourced centre in India as the robot has replaced the need to employ people there.

[Zetec-S]

The trouble is it is difficult to distinguish between genuine breakthroughs or inventions on the horizon, and the billy-bks spouted by tech start-ups touting for funding, who are spewing out crap about how we'll all have a humanoid robot doing our household chores.

[swanny71]

ScotHill said:

Part-time whirrrrrk.

C3POst Office.

R2 Detour sign.

HALal butcher.

Twikihole surgery.

Marvintner.

[vikingaero]

They'll be available for sexytime and be self cleaning.

[BoRED S2upid]

AI will assist doctors but will never replace them. Pharmacist will still need to check the robot has it correct.

Warehouse work probably already automated.

I doubt we will see much difference in the next 20 years the unions won’t have any of it.

[SAS Tom]

I think although some warehouse work will be automated a lot won’t. Having people offers flexibility that machines don’t. A lot of businesses won’t invest in the technology up front. With people they can fill the place during peak times then get rid of them the rest of the year.

[king arthur]

Progress will be when they invent one that can do the ironing.

[Gecko1978]

BoRED S2upid said:

AI will assist doctors but will never replace them. Pharmacist will still need to check the robot has it correct.

Warehouse work probably already automated.

I doubt we will see much difference in the next 20 years the unions won’t have any of it.

My feeling is diagnosis might take part initially by robot it could do your obs in a far more detailed way and cross reference your medical history do a blood test at the same time etc. A Dr might then step in but likely little need in 90% of cases.

Basic office jobs and accounting ones pretty much yes, during covid I worked with some software that wrote reports it was really rather good. We could nit get anyone senior at the bank to look at it, essentially you could do away with 100s of jobs which means less need for senior managers so they weren't interested.

Also I wonder if machines will replace construction workers

[BobToc]

Not really a response to OP's questions, but for a lot of white collar people it won't be AI that takes their job, it's someone who knows how to use AI.