Quotes About Automation

La diferencia no es grande. Uno puede definir un robot como una «máquina computerizada» o como una «computadora móvil». Se puede considerar una computadora como un «robot inmóvil».

If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

I don't understand how I can pay $299 for iPhone and then get in my car and still have to turn knobs.

My Roomba's name is Roswell. There is the moment when you are sitting on the couch and Roomba turns itself on and goes out and starts working. You really appreciate it because it works hard for you, and it deserves some kind of recognition.

Humans will always babble. If someone wants to tweet that they can't decide whether to wear blue socks or brown socks, then fair enough. But when sharing becomes automated, I get the heebie-jeebies.

Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another.

Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

Twice a week, a truck comes near my house, and two guys get out and pick up the garbage. This will disappear. There will still be a truck coming, but it will be driven autonomously, and the garbage will be picked up autonomously, and those jobs will be gone.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

According to a recent survey, for instance, the most-cited AI researchers expect AI to "carry out most human professions at least as well as a typical human" within a 50 percent probability by 2050, and within a 90 percent probability by 2070.

Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Traders were replaced by computers, for very small visible benefits and massively large risks.

While errors made by traders are confined and distributed, those made by computerized systems go wild

The dream of having computers behave like humans is coming true, with the transformation, in a single generation, of humans into computers.

very few of the jobs are necessary, since they could all be accomplished by machines—but the illusion of purpose is critical to a well-adjusted population.

very few of the jobs are necessary, since they could all be accomplished by machines—but the illusion of purpose is critical to a well-adjusted population. —The Thunderhead

Medicine, psychology, criminology, sociology. Which treat bodies as machinery (passim Descartes, the "father" of our Western subject). Developing alongside the dirty sciences. Industrialization, Taylorization, automation.

we are worn-down, hope stamped out. We reach for coffee cups like the robots about to replace us.

Man minus the machine is a slave," proclaimed Henry Ford, touting his new tractor. "Man plus the machine is a free man.

El proceso de fabricar cosas ha empezado a parecerse más al proceso de producción digital.

The labor arbitrage view of global trade, a model that goes back to the dawn of the First Industrial Revolution, assumes that manufacturing will always flow to low-cost countries. But the new automation view suggests that the advantages of cheap labor are shrinking while other factors—closeness to the ultimate consumer, transportation costs (including possible carbon taxes), flexibility, quality, and reliability—are rising.

The 21st-century mix of jobs is probably going to be different than the 20th-century mix.