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AI is already replacing the outsorced call center worker (in India usually) that replaced the US based call center worker in customer support. AI is not the total replacement but it is the filter and the service representative that tries to resolve common occurrence problems.
AI is more cost efficient in many applications than a US mid-skilled worker (now relegated to meatbag status) or a developing world meatbag.
The select coffee machine coffee maker and serving machine can replace the human that is shown in that video. You can sit at the sidewalk café after you get and pay for your espresso or cappuccino -- for most of us this would work. If you want to pay 2 or 3 times the price for a more human experience you could pay Starbucks prices ...
The automated grocery store scanner check-out is here today. They have had them here for some time. One human supervises every 6 operating machines -- the customers do the labor of scanning the items and bagging. No discount is offered to the customer in return for the customer's labor in the process -- prices haven't decreased -- profits probably have.
This is the POST-industrial revolution -- the information economy -- the Luddite lost the first round and the Luddite is losing this second round also. Maybe, people will be outsourced to where they can best do the work available. Not going to happen; we will need to give out ''social benefits'' or make food out of obsolete workers.
Bringing back the obsolete jobs is total bullshit.
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