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To: Sam who wrote (254769)	7/2/2014 8:59:33 AM
From: Metacomet	Respond to of 542002

Exactly.. Robots are a small component of the advances that continue to see activity, that hitherto was strictly the province of highly trained human practitioners, being performed with greater acumen and speed than the humans being displaced These advances promise both improvements in accuracy and efficiency, which is great for consumers of the services, but for the humans who had relied on providing such services for their livelihood, not so much.. We simply cannot ignore the human repercussions of technology advances of this type It is not OK that in the capitalist model, any productivity gains that displace the human workforce are simply improvements to the corporate bottom line ..that pool of displaced people will eventually have critical mass to force changes to the resource distribution model, one way or the other

To: Sam who wrote (254769)	7/2/2014 9:53:48 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542002

Watson isn't a robot. It's a computer for gawds sake. It can't move itself to the Jeopardy stage, can't make a pencil to check off the questions. It can't act on any of the things in it's "mind". It's a fucking glorified encyclopedia. The article says it is the best diagnostician in the world - but it doesn't take your blood sample - a person does that. It doesn't develop the test - a scientist does that. It just sifts through the information that has all been processed by humans and is able to point the dr in the right direction. That can be a good thing - but it is nothing more than a tool. In this case nothing more than a computer. Why do you think of it as a robot? There are robots in medicine that are guided by the capable hands of a physician or surgeon. That's really cool and good and is another step in the evolution of medicine. But we should embrace them - not fear that they will take away jobs.