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Are tv weatherman/woman needed anymore?

basically lagging behind the times..

A.I is all but the future, but i wouldn't worry about weather people being replaced by machines anytime soon when the consumer market hasn't even got there fully yet. Perhaps one day, but i won't be here when that ever happens.
 
juanm said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...4623ba-17be-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html

In experiments on pigs, surgical stitches made by autonomous robots were as good as or better than stitches made by skilled surgeons. Of course, it's still just babysteps, and like you said we'll keep a human in the loop for a very long time, but it'll happen eventually.
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This is certainly exciting news, but we are a LONG way from having a machine determine where to make an incision, determine at a glance which tissues internally need to be cut/repaired/whatever, and do the closing. No robot is going to do a Tommy John surgery or a gastric bypass anytime soon.

You said "humans will be made redundant for most jobs within 20 years." The article you posted, while certainly interesting, gives me no reason to think that even a single person's job will be made redundant even within our lifetimes.
 
Tomorrow said:
This is certainly exciting news, but we are a LONG way from having a machine determine where to make an incision, determine at a glance which tissues internally need to be cut/repaired/whatever, and do the closing. No robot is going to do a Tommy John surgery or a gastric bypass anytime soon.

You said "humans will be made redundant for most jobs within 20 years." The article you posted, while certainly interesting, gives me no reason to think that even a single person's job will be made redundant even within our lifetimes.
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I hate to quote buzzfeed but this article is spot on:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/coralewis/...driverless-tru?utm_term=.rh5lrmQny#.ex229lDwW

Just yesterday I was talking with a computer scientist and he shared the same view. Of course, some jobs will take much longer, others will be quicker to be replaced.
 
I don't see the arts being replaced by machines nearly as fast or easily as labor-centric ones.
 
Getting back to the original question, I'd say that there are situations where humans are very helpful. I live in the South U.S. where we frequently get severe weather, mostly thunderstorms and tornados. The best local weather people are very good at tracking storms and giving instructions to residents in specific areas—they know the towns and roads in great detail and use that information to provide guidance.
 
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Tomorrow said:
How can humans be made redundant for jobs like cooks, lawyers, masseuses, engineers, artists, teachers, doctors, police, janitors - you could almost take your pick. Sure, there might be parts of some of these jobs that could possibly be automated, but anything requiring human interaction, decision making, etc. is probably never going to be trusted completely to machinery.
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Doctors:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ibms-watso...diagnosis-patient-who-baffled-doctors-1574963

Bricklayers:
http://www.fbr.com.au


It's still babysteps, but robots and AI are just warming up, whereas humans have already reached their peak, it's only a matter of time.
 
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I wonder how many times throughout history people have thought that humans have reached their peak.
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The question at stake is not our feats, but our physical capabilities coupled with fast thinking, multitasking.

Up until now machines could do, but we were still better at thinking. Machines will eventually become able to think (in a machine kind of way, ie identifying problems + taking decisions) better than us.
 
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Tomorrow said:
but anything requiring human interaction, decision making, etc. is probably never going to be trusted completely to machinery.
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Fly by wire is already making most of the decision in the sky, increasing safety and reducing risk, this shows that decision making is better done by a machine (if the coding behind it is right) because it is objective and not subjective.

We do not have self flying planes (well Autopilot and autoland is mostly ......self flying so I should say pilotless planes) because of safety issue (hackability), but that does not mean the plane does not fly by itself or land by itself nowadays (not all the time) and / or make the best decision (stall prevention runway overrun prevention and so on...).
 
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