While the world has been supplied with the concept of coexistence with AI and Robotics, some countries still have a massive workforce that is not ready for it yet.
Long distance truckers shortage has been a well known matter, which makes it very high paid for those who are willing to perform long distance truck driving. As the world accelerated transition to the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) industry 4.0, more recent breakthrough research and experiment suggest that on average self driving truckers no need a driver at all, and it saves at least 10 hours more than a human driver, due to a truck not needing to sleep. A lot of countries have the rule that a driver can only work for x amount of hours a day. The advantages of an autonomous system such as self-driving vehicle technology make a huge difference here. The trend will be no driver needed anymore.
From all kinds of cost calculation, despite the high initial cost for self-driving technology, it is still cheaper than paying for a human driver. This is just one way driverless trucks you expect to see more and frequently on the road. Driverless trucks are on the road. If you read news, you are aware of the fly drone being explored for delivery as well.
Move to factory context. A robotic “iron hand” has proof to protect factory workers from injuries, same goes for the warehouse where they require doing the same task over and over, and that repetition can lead to chronic injury. More and more warehouses are being staffed with robot troops to perform various tasks.
The world is accelerated for the adoption of modern emerging technologies, as it did provide business return on investment. Result in the lower operation cost, higher efficiency and result in higher profit margin for the resources deployment.
Do not think this will impact jobs such as long distance driving, factory and warehouse workers. If you know closer, it has more impact on the white collar workers and up to middle management and experienced specialists as well. Technology such as robotic process automation (RPA), software robots perform workflow automation and help to process and route tasks without humans, which result in 24x7x365 availability and speed that no human can match for performing similar tasks in the level of cost.
Call center and support that have been served with chatbot and virtual customer assistant is nothing new anymore. They can even call and make appointments, or find and perform various related tasks via the human-like conversation, which Google has showcased for a couple of years during the event.
Research keeps pointing out massive unemployment is due to workforce lack of the modern hireable competency. Despite the world advancing over the years, most of the working adults stop their learning and make them less competitive than the younger generation to get hired.
While the world is talking about how to use cloud computing, they are stopping at the physical machine system administration. While the world is about 100x faster with the adoption of DevSecOps seamless integration, delivery and automation, they are stopping at knowing how to operate automated security scanners, where the world needs the officer to perform manual exploitation and pentesting, and the officer is just not catch up along the years. As such, this is why some companies set up some age and competency criteria and to filter out some positions to be considered. Like some told before, in Huawei, if you reach a certain age in the company and yet are able to be promoted to a management position, it is better to empty the position and let the younger one fill it. Rise of Robotics and AI involvement in all kinds of jobs, got the lesson being shared so far in the post?
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