Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Mammy told me not to come.

[Guest]

Cross link for IPB Golf Outing: https://www.irishpokerboards.com/for...28#post1103428

RD3 if you could include a witty plug, please do so..

[Denny Crane]

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/are-we-living-simulated-universe-here-s-what-scientists-say-ncna1026916

Will we ever learn whether the simulation hypothesis is correct? Bostrum says there’s a remote chance that one day we might encounter a telltale glitch in the simulation. “You could certainly imagine a scenario where a window pops up in front of you, saying, ‘You are in a simulation; click here for more information,’” he says. “That would be a knock-down proof.”

Kinda get that feeling some times with too many psychedelics, the glitch is most likely in the brain rather than in the universe though

[newbie2]

Red = republican.

Did you mean something else?)

Red as in socialist

[Mellor]

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science...ay-ncna1026916



Kinda get that feeling some times with too many psychedelics, the glitch is most likely in the brain rather than in the universe though

What if it glitches all the time and they just restart the matrix?

[Raoul Duke III]

Red as in socialist

Not exactly a big selling point in US presidential politics.

Eugene Debs could tell you as much.

[Raoul Duke III]

She just does well on twitter, not in the real world.

Worked for Trump tbf

[Denny Crane]

Ah that was just part of his strategy, she couldn't replicate his rallies and his complete domination of the media.

[Strewelpeter]

Worked for Trump tbf

Thats what Sitch is saying, its not about competence or ability.
You can actually be a incompetent, low iq, uneducated, illiterate, racist, rapist and be POTUS. Having said that AOC and the likes would have to overcome a bigger obstacle then being (LOL) communists and that is not being a rich white guy.


Oh yeah Denny remember that time you said that Trump is the least racist guy ever yada yada, you still holding to that or has reality bitten you yet?

[Strewelpeter]

Ah that was just part of his strategy, she couldn't replicate his rallies and his complete domination of the media.

Oh wait you are still hanging on to 'he's smart'

[luckforsome]

...Gone...

[Denny Crane]

Oh wait you are still hanging on to 'he's smart'

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former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says it may be an example of Trump's strategic genius.

"It is useful to remember Trump doesn't play tic-tac-toe. He plays chess, and he's very often setting up a much deeper fight than you might think, looking at the surface," Gingrich told the Washington Examiner.

Trump's tweet was widely criticized as inaccurate and offensive, with three of four apparent targets actually born in the U.S. But Gingrich said Trump wanted to raise the profile of his targets and to more closely link their socialist and anti-Israel policies with the Democratic Party.

"He wants the Democratic Party to identify with them," Gingrich said. "I think the president is often inartful, but remarkably effective."

Defending the tweet, Trump attacked Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York at the White House Monday. Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts are his other presumed targets. Only Omar was born abroad, in Somalia.

Trump attacked after tension between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the four, whom she dismissively called "the squad." Republican strategist Alice Stewart said "the Democratic Party is very divided right now and President Trump's comments only unified them against him."

"Why the president is getting in a Twitter war with two freshmen members of Congress is beyond me; they are not worth his time," said Stewart, a veteran of four recent GOP presidential campaigns.

But Gingrich said uniting Democrats was the point.

"Pelosi in a sense was trying to draw a line and say, 'We are not them'. After Trump's tweet, she said, 'Oh, we really are them.' You may have a vote" to admonish Trump for his tweet "in the next day or so when Pelosi lines up with the four radicals," he said.

Gingrich said he doesn't believe Trump will be hurt by a perception that his tweet was racist, as "people who willing to believe that are already anti-Trump."

"There's no evidence that what he said was racist. What he said was basically designed to say, 'If you don't like America, there are a lot of other places you could go,'" Gingrich added. "I thought it was Pelosi who yesterday was being accused of racism by the very four people who she's now defending. If Pelosi and everyone else is a racist, what does it mean anymore?"

[Raoul Duke III]

Lots of fish biting today.

[Mellor]

You can actually be a incompetent, low iq, uneducated, illiterate, racist, rapist and be POTUS.

I get that you have an irrational hatred of Trump, and that’s fine. So I expect a certain amount if hyperbole when you’re ranting. But how many of those six descriptions above do you actually believe, genuinely?

Incompetent. Depends on the assessment really. I’d imagine Trump’s will be remember above all else for his presidential campaign. Can’t really say he didn’t do that well. As a president a different story.
Low IQ. By what benchmark? Lower than Adams, Kennedy and Clinton, absolutely. Below average, is be surprised tbh.
Illiterate. Not by any technical definition obviously. Only in memes and clickbait headlines, which is kinda ironic.
Uneducated. I haven’t looked into it in detail. But does seem objectively false.
No need to touch on the last two.

[Hectorjelly]

It's really come to something when people on IPB are more reactionary than Theresa May:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48990760

[Denny Crane]

Theresa May condemns Trump's 'go back' remark to congresswomen

Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.

Racists don't really invite people back do they?

[newbie2]

It's really come to something when people on IPB are more reactionary than Theresa May:

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48990760

IPB should be running next door IMO

[ComradeCollie]

Racists don't really invite people back do they?

He's probably listening to the Dalai Lama too often

"I think Europe belongs to the Europeans," he added, noting that governments must be honest with new arrivals about the fact "they ultimately should rebuild their own country."

[Guest]

I think it's fine to question whether Trump is actually playing on a different level to everyone else but Newt Gingrich is probably not the best person to be quoting in regards to Trumps potential genius.

He's a yes man as are many of them but he's been a big proponent of the value of science until Trump came along: Gingrich's shifting positions on climate change—from cautious skeptic in the late 1980s to believer in the late 2000s to skeptic again during the current campaign—are a prime example, Boehlert says. That flip-flop hasn't made Boehlert happy; he says Gingrich and the other Republican candidates "need to acknowledge the reality of climate change."

[Hectorjelly]

I think you need your head examined if you take anything Newt Gringich has to say at face value. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...elcome/570832/

[Solksjaer!]

Racists don't really invite people black do they?

You forgot ONE letter .

[Strewelpeter]

I get that you have an irrational hatred of Trump, and that’s fine. So I expect a certain amount if hyperbole when you’re ranting. But how many of those six descriptions above do you actually believe, genuinely?

Nothing in the least bit irrational about it.
Illiterate to me is someone who doesn't read books, illiterate is spelling Al Qaeda as Alcaidia Education is something with deeper meaning than a multimillionare high school failure buying a pisspoor degree from Wharton. No educated or averagely intelligent person would ad lib about the revolutionaries of the 1770's capturing the Airports... thats just ignotant dumbfuckkery. Racist and rapist are just facts.
The only one I'd have any doubt about is the low IQ, I'd say there are some of the culturally appropriate tests he might scrape 80 on

[Strewelpeter]

Racists don't really invite people back do they?

To be serious for a second this is a line in the sand, either people see this racism for what it is or else they got to take a long hard look in the mirror.

I'll leave you with extreme right winger Ronald Reagan being quoted by extreme right winger Steve Baker on this subject

[Strewelpeter]

On the other hand you gotta laugh

[Guest]

how naive an adult could be. The birther imaginings about Barack Obama? Just a silly conspiracy theory, latched onto by an attention seeker who has a peculiar penchant for them. The “Mexican” Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel incident? Asinine, inappropriate, a terrible attack on the judiciary by an egocentric man who imagined that the judge didn’t like him. The white supremacists’ march in Charlottesville? The president’s comments were absolutely idiotic, but he couldn’t possibly have been referring to those self-described Nazis as “good people”; in his sloppy, inarticulate way, he was referring to both sides of the debate over Civil War statues, and venting his anger about being criticized.

No, I thought, President Trump was boorish, dim-witted, inarticulate, incoherent, narcissistic and insensitive. He’s a pathetic bully but an equal-opportunity bully — in his uniquely crass and crude manner, he’ll attack anyone he thinks is critical of him. No matter how much I found him ultimately unfit, I still gave him the benefit of the doubt about being a racist. No matter how much I came to dislike him, I didn’t want to think that the president of the United States is a racial bigot.

But Sunday left no doubt. Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president. Trump could have used vile slurs, including the vilest of them all, and the intent and effect would have been no less clear. Telling four non-white members of Congress — American citizens all, three natural-born — to “go back” to the “countries” they “originally came from”? That’s racist to the core. It doesn’t matter what these representatives are for or against — and there’s plenty to criticize them for — it’s beyond the bounds of human decency. For anyone, not least a president.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-conway-trump-is-a-racist-president/2019/07/15/b13c0bd4-a740-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4b0c0a5b8d19

[Mellor]

Nothing in the least bit irrational about it.
Illiterate to me is someone who doesn't read books, illiterate is spelling Al Qaeda as Alcaidia Education is something with deeper meaning than a multimillionare high school failure buying a pisspoor degree from Wharton. No educated or averagely intelligent person would ad lib about the revolutionaries of the 1770's capturing the Airports... thats just ignotant dumbfuckkery. Racist and rapist are just facts.
The only one I'd have any doubt about is the low IQ, I'd say there are some of the culturally appropriate tests he might scrape 80 on

That’s not the meaning of illiterate though. You know that. Saying “to me” doesn't make it ok to make up definitions. His Twitter is littered with grammatical and spelling, but that doesn’t mean he is illiterate.
The business school famed for producing more billionaires than any others is handing out piss poor degrees? I doubt he was a remarkable academic, but uneducated seems a stretch.
The IQ jibe is kinda what I was talking about. Trump isn’t reading your comments here. Not being able to hold it together for a whole post appears a little irrational, or uncontrollable.

[Keane]

tbf

illiterate
/ɪˈlɪt(ə)rət/
Learn to pronounce
adjective
adjective: illiterate
1.
unable to read or write.
"his parents were illiterate"
synonyms: unable to read or write, unlettered, analphabetic, functionally illiterate
"he was no illiterate peasant"
antonyms: literate
ignorant in a particular subject or activity.
"the extent to which voters are politically illiterate"
synonyms: ignorant, unknowledgeable, uneducated, untaught, unschooled, untutored, untrained, uninstructed, uninformed, unlearned, unread, unenlightened, benighted, backward; literarynescient
"a politically illiterate youth"
antonyms: literate, knowledgeable
uncultured or poorly educated.
"the ignorant, illiterate Town Council"
(of a piece of writing) showing a lack of education; badly written.
"as you can see, I have corrected your misspelt, illiterate letter"

noun
noun: illiterate; plural noun: illiterates
1.
a person who is unable to read or write.
Phrases
functionally illiterate — lacking the literacy necessary for coping with most jobs and many everyday situations.

[Raoul Duke III]

Closed on the sale of old house FINALLY today.

Now to work out how much €€€€ to keep back to plough into new house. Need 3 weeks in France to think that one over.

[Raoul Duke III]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.4b0c0a5b8d19

Isn't he Kellyanne Conway's husband?

Must be some craic over the breakfast table.

[Raoul Duke III]

I'll leave you with extreme right winger Ronald Reagan being quoted by extreme right winger Steve Baker on this subject

Reagan wasn't an extreme right winger.

I agree with you on Trump, he's an incorrigible whistler of dogs.

[Mellor]

tbf

There’s a difference between being unable to read and not bothering to read books. I’d imagine a large portion of adults don’t read books, but can read at a functional level well above basic literacy.
Same with writing, like Scottish people twitter, that’s not illiteracy, it’s a different language.

[Strewelpeter]

I agree with you on Trump, he's an incorrigible whistler of dogs.

We are a long way past the Dog Whistling now, this is blatant and unapologetic.

[Denny Crane]

Relevant Amazon lightning deal

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GDM6HCX/ref=twister_B07HTC5GRH?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

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[Trippie]

i read a piece the other day, talking about why the dems arent pushing for impeachment at highest level, along the lines that it wasnt just russia, israel, saudia arabia and uae also involed with the campaign to get trump into power. It all came about by links from some israeli fixer who had the security contract for sochi airport during the olmypics.

the dems backed by Haim Saban are also pro israel and by forcing the dems to defend these 4 women they are opening them up to be attacked easily enough and also to cause problems with the donors.

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[newbie2]

Can I get your opinion on something I wrote?

Its for a magazine aimed at students about to enter the French uni / grand ecole system. My task is to highlight the value of AI as that's my area. But their suggested title to me for the article was 'My manager also has a heart' - so have had to shoehorn the AI bit into it.

It will obv be translated into French in due course.

What do you think? Now I'm definitely not expecting any praise here - I know its a deeply flawed article, just can't quite work out all the ways it is flawed

One thing I should note is the target age group - about 19/20 - hopefully explaining that some of the simplicity is intended.

SPOILER

The robots are coming – to give your boss back their heart

Everyone now knows that the robots are coming for all the jobs. Those incredibly smart algorithms based on artificial intelligence. It is claimed these will replace 40 percent of workers in the foreseeable future. The robots always seem a bit mean in these stories, like alien overlords come to conquer the earth.

That often-repeated figure of 40 percent of workers that I just said is a lie, by the way. What people who study this for a living say is that about 40 percent of work tasks will be replaced. These tasks are mainly the really boring stuff that drives workers mad when they have to do it over and over again.

Think of radiography – a mind-numbingly boring task of staring at hundreds of x-rays every day. Most of what the radiographer looks at is x-rays of the arms of kids who have fallen off their bike. Needing to answer the question of ‘is it broken’. Which is usually fairly obvious because the kid has tears rolling down their face and they’re screaming my arm is broken.

I simplify that job a bit, and know it’s a vital job. But what if all the routine scans could be looked at by a robot and the hugely-trained radiographers could use their freed-up time to handle the complex work that really requires their skill? That seems amazing for the radiographer, giving them far more time to bring the personal touch into their role. They’re not distracted by the work tasks that really don’t suit their training. It’s also great for society.

Let’s think about this in a regular company. So much of what happens in a regular company is really boring. You fill these companies with great young graduates and then tell them they need to check the number on an invoice and enter it into a spreadsheet. And they need to do that 500 times a day.

Or maybe you ask them to do excellent high-powered jobs, and then can’t give them the data and knowledge to do their jobs well. So the graduate runs around for a few years hoping no-one discovers they don’t know what they are doing.

That is highly stressful for the employee and it’s a waste for your boss too. Your boss spends most of their time freaking out because random things like why product sales in Vietnam are falling. They’ve no idea why it is happening. But they suspect its something because of you. Or someone like you.

Things like I described, of automated extraction of knowledge from documents, or AI-driven sales diagnosis are now super-standard through the robots. That’s what is really changing in the workplace. Not job replacement but job empowerment.

The thing is, your boss does actually care about you, they’re just so distracted by crisis and chaos and unending paperwork. They care about you because they’re normal people with normal feelings of affection and all the other emotions. Just like you will care about your graduate-hires when you are the boss.

Only a tiny number of people are actually bad people. It just seems like there are far more of those bad people in the workplace because everyone is so stressed. Remove the stress and the not-knowing-what-is-happening and people are lovely.

That’s what the robots will do. They will create more certainty and reduce the stress of the unknown. They will reduce repetitive overwork and allow people to focus on their real skills. Just like they will do for those excellent radiographers.

From that will emerge more focus in the workplace on real human skills that robots are unlikely to ever be able to do. Being truly creative and using those imagination skills to your highest ability. Using those people skills, so if your boss sees you struggling they can spend time working with you on a personal level. These are immensely valuable skills that the company cannot do without – people with those skills are never being fired. All hail the invading hordes of robots.

Read the third paragraph first and only.

FFS hitch. You can do better than that. Jesus wept

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[Strewelpeter]

Relevant Amazon lightning deal

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GDM6H...ing=UTF8&psc=1

Do you really think the USA is a 'greater' place than it was 5 years ago?

[hotspur]

I really liked it Hitch. You have a flair for humour in your writing.

[Guest]

Reads like an AI language bot wrote it. So many really short sentences that aren't actually sentences (like this one). Makes the whole thing very breathless and without flow.

[Strewelpeter]

Reagan wasn't an extreme right winger.
.

He was a right winger and Trump is barely literate

The Pedants are revolting

[newbie2]

I actually thought that was the best paragraph! Radiology is a famous AI case of how it will make jobs better - by getting rid of routine work like that, but wanted to make it a bit more humorous. I may not have succeeded, but that was the intention.

Whatever you tried to achieve - even though alluded to in the next paragraph - comes across a bit condescending to out radiologist bretheran. Also, IMO, makes it look Like you think you know everything about radiology. Which you don't.

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[Guest]

That makes sense and writing for the online reader is a different ballgame but: "Needing to answer the question of ‘is it broken." isn't a sentence for any reader! I realise I'm opening myself up to a Kayrooing here.

[Guest]

Perhaps some examples of where AI has become a force in their lives to some extent.

I thought perhaps AlphaGo, seems like Gen Z's version of Deep Blue

https://deepmind.com/research/alphago/

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[hotspur]

But there's nothing wrong with starting sentences with conjunctions outside of academic papers and primary school essays.

[Dice75]

This could prove to be highly inaccurate but disturbing none the less...

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/girl-5-lured-to-derelict-house-and-beaten-by-three-young-boys-who-attempted-to-sexually-assault-her-38318460.html

[Raoul Duke III]

My wife clearly thinks strange thoughts i.e. that I would like this:

Macreddin Village Signature Flourish Organics Facial (60 minutes): This relaxing signature treatment is the perfect way to rejuvenate your skin during the summer. Following a skin consultation your therapist will design a bespoke facial to suit your needs and desires on the day. Using natural, organic, Irish made products, your skin will be exfoliated with natural jojoba beads, soothed with an arnica based eye cream and nourished with a decadent jasmine face mask. Macreddin Village’s signature rosehip oil is the perfect addition to this already luxurious treatment and will leave your skin looking and feeling soft, supple and hydrated

Already booked. Looking forward to faking my own death.

[Flushdraw]

Reads like an AI language bot wrote it. So many really short sentences that aren't actually sentences (like this one). Makes the whole thing very breathless and without flow.

See its been so long since I wrote anything for a newspaper that I've forgotten the rules. Thought the rule was meant to be short-sentences precisely to keep the reader engaged. But I could easily have forgotten what the actual rule is.

That makes sense and writing for the online reader is a different ballgame but: "Needing to answer the question of ‘is it broken." isn't a sentence for any reader! I realise I'm opening myself up to a Kayrooing here.

Hitch, you're right about what you say, and they are the general rules. Zuutroy is also right too though. Your short sentences aren't that engaging to the reader and they are very stop-start and don't really flow too well. That's the trick if you are going to keep it short and snappy. Almost 40% of your words have 3 of less characters, and when you also have a lot of short sentences, it needs to gel well.

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[ComradeCollie]

Noticed some of my potato plants are growing fruit that look something like tomatoes. New to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_fruit

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[RichieM]

Hitch I am open to being wrong here but I don’t think that AI can actually create algorithms. It can now write code but that depends on your definition of writing code.

It can shape the data pipeline that feeds in to the algo and it can start to shape the results etc but afaik the core algorithm is still a human mathematician.

The definition of AI is getting pretty fuzzy now but I thought that the radiography example was machine learning and computer vision rather than AI as the results are pretty binary. Some common principals may be involved and the same tools used to build it.

Again I’m not technical so I could be way off

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[NoRiverRequired]

Can I get your opinion on something I wrote?

Its for a magazine aimed at students about to enter the French uni / grand ecole system. My task is to highlight the value of AI as that's my area. But their suggested title to me for the article was 'My manager also has a heart' - so have had to shoehorn the AI bit into it.

It will obv be translated into French in due course.

What do you think? Now I'm definitely not expecting any praise here - I know its a deeply flawed article, just can't quite work out all the ways it is flawed

One thing I should note is the target age group - about 19/20 - hopefully explaining that some of the simplicity is intended.

SPOILER

The robots are coming – to give your boss back their heart

Everyone now knows that the robots are coming for all the jobs. Those incredibly smart algorithms based on artificial intelligence. It is claimed these will replace 40 percent of workers in the foreseeable future. The robots always seem a bit mean in these stories, like alien overlords come to conquer the earth.

That often-repeated figure of 40 percent of workers that I just said is a lie, by the way. What people who study this for a living say is that about 40 percent of work tasks will be replaced. These tasks are mainly the really boring stuff that drives workers mad when they have to do it over and over again.

Think of radiography – a mind-numbingly boring task of staring at hundreds of x-rays every day. Most of what the radiographer looks at is x-rays of the arms of kids who have fallen off their bike. Needing to answer the question of ‘is it broken’. Which is usually fairly obvious because the kid has tears rolling down their face and they’re screaming my arm is broken.

I simplify that job a bit, and know it’s a vital job. But what if all the routine scans could be looked at by a robot and the hugely-trained radiographers could use their freed-up time to handle the complex work that really requires their skill? That seems amazing for the radiographer, giving them far more time to bring the personal touch into their role. They’re not distracted by the work tasks that really don’t suit their training. It’s also great for society.

Let’s think about this in a regular company. So much of what happens in a regular company is really boring. You fill these companies with great young graduates and then tell them they need to check the number on an invoice and enter it into a spreadsheet. And they need to do that 500 times a day.

Or maybe you ask them to do excellent high-powered jobs, and then can’t give them the data and knowledge to do their jobs well. So the graduate runs around for a few years hoping no-one discovers they don’t know what they are doing.

That is highly stressful for the employee and it’s a waste for your boss too. Your boss spends most of their time freaking out because random things like why product sales in Vietnam are falling. They’ve no idea why it is happening. But they suspect its something because of you. Or someone like you.

Things like I described, of automated extraction of knowledge from documents, or AI-driven sales diagnosis are now super-standard through the robots. That’s what is really changing in the workplace. Not job replacement but job empowerment.

The thing is, your boss does actually care about you, they’re just so distracted by crisis and chaos and unending paperwork. They care about you because they’re normal people with normal feelings of affection and all the other emotions. Just like you will care about your graduate-hires when you are the boss.

Only a tiny number of people are actually bad people. It just seems like there are far more of those bad people in the workplace because everyone is so stressed. Remove the stress and the not-knowing-what-is-happening and people are lovely.

That’s what the robots will do. They will create more certainty and reduce the stress of the unknown. They will reduce repetitive overwork and allow people to focus on their real skills. Just like they will do for those excellent radiographers.

From that will emerge more focus in the workplace on real human skills that robots are unlikely to ever be able to do. Being truly creative and using those imagination skills to your highest ability. Using those people skills, so if your boss sees you struggling they can spend time working with you on a personal level. These are immensely valuable skills that the company cannot do without – people with those skills are never being fired. All hail the invading hordes of robots.

I've made a stab at improving the first few paragraphs, mainly because the originals made me want to die a little.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about robots and I am not a writer so this may not be much of an improvement.

SPOILER

Let the Robots do robot work and allow Managers be human again.

It’s no secret that the robots are on their way. It is predicted by many that these algorithm powered geniuses are going to use their artificial intelligence to eradicate 40 percent of the current workforce. These predictions typically paint a grim, dark future where our robotic overlords condemn the ignorant humans to a life of despair and poverty.

The reality of our futures, however, is not so bleak. The robots will not replace 40 percent of workers. What is far more likely, according to scholars in the area of AI, is that 40 percent of menial work tasks will be replaced. Think about the most mind-numbing part of your daily grind, would it be so awful if we could divert this task to a machine? I think most people could warm to that idea pretty quickly.

A good example is radiography – a repetitive task which involves staring at hundreds of x-rays every day. A large part of a typical radiographers day involves assessing x-rays of kids who've recently departed company with their bikes. Their task is essentially to decide if the arm is broken or not, visually scanning a black and white image, trying to spot the tell-tale signs of a break. The hysterically screaming child often gives it away in advance but that’s not the point.

The above is obviously an oversimplification of a vital job. But what if all the routine scans could be looked at by a robot and the expert radiographers could use their new free time to handle the complex work that really requires their skill? That would surely appeal to the radiographer, giving them far more time to bring their skills and personal touch into use, but also to their employer, by allowing a far more efficient use of their valuable resource.

Let’s apply this thought process to a regular company. Much of what happens in the day to day operations of a typical business is mundane. Bright-eyed graduates, on their first week in the workforce, are often assigned data entry and filing tasks, their bright eyes soon dulled by the reality of “work”. If their lucky they’ve joined a modern progressive company who task them with a far more challenging and exciting project, only for them fail due to the absence of the data they need to succeed. The despairing young worker soon gives up the fight and learns to keep their head down and look busy, hoping that someday this will all change.

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