Will Robots Take My Job?

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1 Will Robots Take My Job? Technology-Human Synergy and Discord Prof. Alex Ferworn Dept of Computer Science Ryerson University

Alex Ferworn Professor Sceptic Graduate Program Director Master of Digital Media Program Background 8 years at Bell Canada 14 years in the Canadian Army Infantry 2

2 Alex Ferworn Professor Sceptic Graduate Program Director Master of Digital Media Program Background 8 years at Bell Canada 14 years in the Canadian Army Infantry 2 years as an Auxiliary in the Ontario Provincial Police Researcher Director of the Network-Centric Applied Research Lab (N- CART) Mostly dogs and robots Let s pick on robots!

3 Why I Pick on Robots? Term robot first used in Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (R.U.R.) (1920) a science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. Roboti compulsory laborers (slaves) Useful definition. Robot: Any artifice that Senses, Actuates, Exhibits Control, and Communicates

4 Is what you see in the video a robot? ROBOT Sense Control Actuate Communicate

5 Us Are we being subjugated? Subjugate: to conquer and gain the obedience of Observation: Things aren t that bad Them Problem

6 Technology is agnostic but how we use it falls into roughly 3 categories The Good The Bad The Ugly

7 The Robots are Coming New technologies inevitably Eliminate existing jobs Create new types of jobs This has always been the case The existing jobs remain but humans don t do them 47% of existing American jobs could be vulnerable to automation within 20 years Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, The Future of Employment

8 20 Year Job Trends 2010 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment and wage data $ K/yr $50-100K/yr $26-50K/yr $12-26K/yr <30% 30% to 70% >70% Other Sources: Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, The Future of Employment, 2013 and Workopolis.ca

9 Why the shift to robots Machines are getting smarter Better algorithms ( big data, blah, blah) Better computers (cheap brute force) Sensing and control is getting better Controllers: cheap, plentiful and connected Sensors better and with DATA OUT ports We re expensive

Machines are Getting Smarter Kind of IBM Watson Natural language question answering super computer system Specifically developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy!

10 Machines are Getting Smarter Kind of IBM Watson Natural language question answering super computer system Specifically developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy! Cancer diagnostics Oncologists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center use Watson to provide chronic care and cancer treatment diagnostics. 600,000 medical reports, 1.5 million patient records and clinical trials, and two million pages of text from medical journals

11 The Trouble with This Kind of Intelligence

12 Sensing and Control are Getting Better Behold Atlas! Behold Atlas and buddies after a night on the town?

13 We re Too Expensive

Creative Intelligence The state of computer humour (Wired Magazine 2014) Question: What kind of

14 What can t robots do? Perception and manipulation Unstructured environments tend to baffle intelligent systems. Creative Intelligence The state of computer humour (Wired Magazine 2014) Question: What kind of animal rides a catamaran? Answer: A cat. Question: What is the difference between leaves and a car? Answer: One you brush and rake, the other you rush and brake. Social Intelligence You judge

15 Network-Centric Applied Research Team (N-CART) Multidisciplinary research supported by Graduate and Undergraduate Students Volunteers, Partner and Collaborating Organizations Computational Public Safety (PS) the application of computational resources, theory and practice in support of and improvement to PS processes. Not a typical computer science lab Dogs and Robots Best kept secret in Canada John Hickenlooper» Governor - Colorado

16 Humanitarian Robotics Canine-Assisted Robot Deployment (CARD)

Creative, imaginative, unstructured and socially intelligent jobs need

17 The Robots are Still Coming Take away: in 20 years time, if current trends continue, many more jobs will be done by robots. Creative, imaginative, unstructured and socially intelligent jobs need humans (for now). As technology changes the world, its probably best that we know something about the technology.

18 Thank you Subjugation--reload

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e-care Living Lab - 5 avenue du Grand Sablon La Tronche - FRANCE Tel: +33 (0) e-care Living Lab e-care Living Lab in Rhône-Alpes Region e-care got the Living Lab label in 2010 from ENoLL e-care Living Lab objectives (1/2) To promote the Living Lab approach in the healthcare sector