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Thursday 25th of April 2024

Robots All we're going to see in our own lifetimes are intelligent tools, not colleagues. Don't think of them as colleagues, don't try to make them colleagues and, above all, don't kid yourself that they're colleagues. Daniel Dennett, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots Businesses turn to software robots for office work — — — — — — — — — — — The rise of the bots promises to bring sweeping changes for cubicle dwellers. Some 4m of these people in the US are likely to see their jobs taken over by the end of 2021, says Craig Le Clair, an analyst at Forrester Research. Each bot can handle the work it would take three or four full-time workers to perform, he says. And at $8,000- $9,000 a year in licensing fees, they are a lot cheaper. Financial Times, March 9, 2018, on robotic process automation (RPA) software, which “takes the robot out of the human” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Robots A computer doesn't need to replicate the entire spectrum of your intellectual capability in order to displace you from your job; it only needs to do the specific things you are paid to do. Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Robots A decade ago, industrial robots assisted workers in their tasks. Now workers – those who remain – assist the robots in theirs. Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker, October 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three- fourths of a percent, according to a new paper by the economists, Daron Acemoglu of M.I.T. and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University. It appears to be the first study to quantify large, direct, negative effects of robots. … The researchers said they were surprised to see very little employ- ment increase in other occupations to offset the job losses in manufacturing. New York Times, March 28, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling Ikea Furniture — — — — — — — — — — — Like humans, the robot had a little help to start: It was fed a kind of manual, a set of ordered instructions on how the pieces fit together. After that, it was on its own. headline and excerpt, New York Times, AugSust 18, 2018 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots They're always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex or race discrimination case. Andrew Puzder, extolling the virtues of robots compared to workers in his restaurants © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots US goods imports contracted 11 per cent in the first eight months of the year compared with the same period last year, but imports of industrial robots rose 5 per cent, according to data from the US International Trade Commission. … Digital interaction with customers has accelerated the equivalent of many years in just months, according to a recent survey of business executives by the consultancy McKinsey.  Changes in digital and technology adoption  are taking place about 25 times faster than before the pandemic, the survey found. Financial Times, October 20, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Robots Well, we're just going to replace them all with robots. Jeff Holden, Uber's chief product officer, responding to concerns expressed about discontent among Uber's drivers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots say I am the robot, you are the human. This is the beginning of a beautiful story. I like humans. Humans are so cute. Pepper, a humanoid companion robot developed by Aldebaran, a French company Quoted in Financial Times, May 6, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Robots say Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Marco Rubio © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Robots say We're all human beings. I get that. I'm not an algorithm. Neil Gorsuch © 2017 Kwiple.com