The words of the author may not coincide with the opinion of the author, one-sided expressing the dialectic of things. Behind the sim disclaimer, the author begins.
This short note will contain one rhetorical question and one example from life. But in general, should serve as a reason for reflection. I do not express any pros or cons here, although I consider the phenomenon critically, from a negative side.
A lot of talk is being done about how the computer will take over the routine, leaving man free to create, but almost no mention is made of the opposite - as the creative part, the field of professional knowledge, experience and skills will go to the machine, and the person will become a thoughtless machine, organ, tool - not thinking and a contractor who does not have the necessary competencies for this, where it is cheaper, where the biorobot is simpler and more reliable than a robot made of steel and wires.
Conveyor and alienation penetrate deeper and deeper into a growing number of areas of exertion. The laws of the market dictate cynical efficiency, and who said that a person is massively more efficient than a machine in the creative sphere !? No - it’s more efficient and cheaper in the routine, behind the conveyor, “under the machine”.
The construction industry is the work of construction workers, by today's standards it is considered to be difficult. But it can not be called routine, it requires a proper supply of knowledge and a share of skill. It may seem monotonous, but not conveyor.
Recently, I was lucky to attend a report on the experience of using augmented reality in construction. The case of installation of drywall partitions in multi-storey buildings.
Metal racks and crossbars - a frame that is sheathed with plasterboard sheets.
Speaker - Representative of the company engaged in the implementation of augmented reality technologies at the construction site. Points - Microsoft Holo-Lens, own software. Clients — construction companies — finishing contractors. Increase productivity by more than 30%. 30% more partitions per day / 30% less workers and payroll. It was directly stated that companies are interested in simplifying technological processes, reducing training time = lowering the qualifications of workers.
Those. They are interested, of course, in revenue growth and cost reduction. But in fact, this means that they need the lowest paid, and therefore unskilled, but capable of performing the necessary task workers.
And here augmented reality comes to the rescue of the business, which will tell and show, just not poke its nose: put this shit on this squiggle, and so from the fence to sunset. No more skills and knowledge, minimal training - mow and hammer.
Transfer all, not even creative, but just conscious activity upstairs - to the supraconscious center, first to the designer and his information model, then to the intelligent machine.
You see the rack - you put the rack.
And all this can be positively substantiated by an increase in quality and lower costs, but the background passes - the army of “Mexicans” who are not trained in anything, and thank God, get a better sleep before the next working days.
Writing a program that can then be endlessly replicated and used for a wide variety of tasks is much cheaper than making robots - a non-universal, complex, expensive product - always the future more expensive than a person. Not a fabulous future, where robots inject, and not a man, but a dystopia, where people inject, just think and say what to do - the program is an algorithm.
The rebellion against machines is an outdated concept - no one will deprive us of jobs, deprive us of creativity, skills and initiative.
However, something I broke up in the end, I promised to give reason to think and not open the gate to hell =)
This is where I end and say goodbye, dear comrades.