Who Thinks Your Job Will Be Gone In 20 Years?

[Singuy]

One of the most important reasons why I choose to save is actually not for early retirement, but it's to protect me for the scenario of my job disappearing in the future.

I am a pharmacist, and I believe my job will be gone or severely reduced in 20 years. I can very easily see something like SIRI or IBM's Watson answer drug questions better than any RPH...and we can just have drug vending machines like Redboxes to replace walgreens/technicians, and pharmacists. With drug vending machines in conjunction with mail order from drug harvesting facilities(use big gigantic vending machines), I can't find very good reasons why they would keep people like us, who makes over 100k/year. Not to mention the above innovations will REDUCE human errors and may prevent pt harm.

The interesting part about all this is, most of my co-workers think this is nonsense. They don't ever see their jobs being replaced because they feel they are just too important and some robot can never replace them.

Which brings me the question..how many of you guys think your jobs will be replaced by automation and what are you doing about it today? I believe statistically, most Americans believe AI and robots will one day displace many jobs, but no one thinks it is THEIR job that will be displaced....

[Tabs]

Huh, drug dispensing vending machines? Fascinating.

I don't think jails will disappear 20 years from now so I don't feel as particularly threatened... unless they figure out how to automate jails as well? HMMMM.

Well either way, it's good to be a saver.

[Singuy]

Huh, drug dispensing vending machines? Fascinating.

I don't think jails will disappear 20 years from now so I don't feel as particularly threatened... unless they figure out how to automate jails as well? HMMMM.

Well either way, it's good to be a saver.

We use drug dispensing vending machines on the floors in large hospitals. We also have a gigantic one down in the pharmacy...so I don't see why this can't be replicated for the general public.

[FLA]

the hospital system I worked for switched to the same exact things. Scary, as nurses, we rely on good pharmacists. A robot may be able to answer what side effects may be but cannot answer more nuanced, complicated questions.

I do think the dispensing machines on the floors are a good idea. The right patient gets the right drug at the right time. A lot harder for nurses or anyone to get into the carts and take the stocked drugs like in the old days when we didn't even lock them. I knew a nurse who bragged about stealing his daily med from the cart supply because it was "too expensive", it would be a lot harder to do that today.

I was a hospice nurse. I see that field growing as boomers age and want quality end of life care. I believe palliative care will continue to grow as well.

[HundredK]

Well, until computers become self-aware, there will always be a need for those with specialized knowledge. So, my thinking is, stay up on technology, stay current and relevant in your field, and you shouldn't have any troubles down the road no matter how much tech advances.

[Singuy]

Well, until computers become self-aware, there will always be a need for those with specialized knowledge. So, my thinking is, stay up on technology, stay current and relevant in your field, and you shouldn't have any troubles down the road no matter how much tech advances.

That's the thing, Ai (DeepMind) is already self aware(basic level). It can already learn from mistakes via trial and error. I saw a video of a computer AI, the one that finally beat the best GO player (game with possible total moves of 10^360, chess is at 10^123 ), can self teach how to play video games (space invaders shown)..and eventually mastered it over 24 hours. I feel AI can be extremely good at specialized knowledge (it never sleeps, it will always remember, it doesn't remember the wrong thing, and it can read and learn anything within seconds), but robots will be terrible in the service industry(imagine getting a massage from a robot).

[97guns]

automation is the future and its progressing at a faster rate every day, soon we will be fighting machines like terminater

[DaveInPgh]

(imagine getting a massage from a robot).

Already a robot for that




Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dITScnK28ZI

[DaveInPgh]

Not to disappoint GoodSteward

[Atretes1]

Huh, drug dispensing vending machines? Fascinating.

I don't think jails will disappear 20 years from now so I don't feel as particularly threatened... unless they figure out how to automate jails as well? HMMMM.

Well either way, it's good to be a saver.

Yep pretty secure with my County Jail position...LOL.

[Thrif-t]

In 20 years I'll be retired so I don't care what happens to my job.

[HundredK]

That's the thing, Ai (DeepMind) is already self aware(basic level). It can already learn from mistakes via trial and error. I saw a video of a computer AI, the one that finally beat the best GO player (game with possible total moves of 10^360, chess is at 10^123 ), can self teach how to play video games (space invaders shown)..and eventually mastered it over 24 hours. I feel AI can be extremely good at specialized knowledge (it never sleeps, it will always remember, it doesn't remember the wrong thing, and it can read and learn anything within seconds), but robots will be terrible in the service industry(imagine getting a massage from a robot).

Well hey, so long as the robots find some use for you, you should be ok.

FWIW, I would absolutely love to have a robot masseuse. I'm pretty introverted and that would suit me just fine.

[disneysteve]

I'm reminded of Charlie's father in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Johnny Depp version). He works at a toothpaste factory putting the caps on the tubes. He loses his job when they get a machine that automatically puts the caps on then later gets rehired as the guy who maintains the machine that replaced him

The need for human labor will always exist but the nature of the available jobs will change, just as it has for hundreds of years. How many cobblers or blacksmiths or switchboard operators do you know?

In 20 years I'll be retired so I don't care what happens to my job.

Well yes and no. Yes I'll be retired in 20 years but hopefully I'll still be alive and want to have competent physicians around to care for me so I hope medicine still employs good human folks.

The nature of medical care is certainly changing but so far they haven't replaced the human element. Telemedicine has made it possible for a doctor in one location to take care of a patient in a far off location but still, the doctor is a human. Will that ever change? I suppose that's possible but I doubt it will happen in my lifetime.

[QuarterMillionMan]

I would like to think that my job is secure but I know anything is possible. I'm not too concerned because in my field of social work (think protective custody) the human component plays a strong factor. However with the driverless cars that's half way there. BTW I won't provide more specifics regarding my exact job although one could easily guess.

[GoodSteward]

Not to disappoint GoodSteward

What am I looking at ? lol