The disappearance of demographic dividend and the rapid advancement of industry 4.0 are forcing more and more industries to join the intelligent army, which is the rise of “robot” fertile soil. At the current rate of progress, robots will be on the planet within five years. They will be working side by side with people, whether they are your new colleagues, friends or even family.
The question everyone wants to ask is: is this good news or bad news? Will robots replace humans? And how do we respond?
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
After reading this article, you’ll have a good idea.
First, more and more jobs are being replaced by robots around the world, and it’s hardly news.
You know what? 8.5% of articles in Wikipedia are written by robots, all of them by the same robot. Lsjbot, created by Swede Svek Johansson, has written 2.7 million articles over the years, making it Wikipedia’s most prolific author to date. The Los Angeles Times in the United States has also used robots to write breaking earthquake news.
Using sensors and chemistry, the robot can identify beer types with 82 percent accuracy, according to research by the Autonomous University of Barcelona’s Electronic Tongue. Not to be alone, Denmark has developed a new sensor for wine tasting.
Technology companies like Google and car companies are working on autonomous driving technology; Piloting commercial airliners is partially automated today, and will be more automated in the future, until pilots are eliminated.
At the same time, Google, the world’s largest online advertising company, has begun to rely on Internet software to sell search ads to businesses, and the need for AD sales representatives has fallen.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed facial expression recognition technology for cash that can determine whether someone is in pain or depressed. Such sophisticated technology could even lead to “robo-psychologists”
When you think about it, wine-tasting, writing, driving, flying, selling, counseling can all be done by robots. What else can they not do? And “human” is something, something not to do, and “robot” is everything!
According to the latest statistics report of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), the global sales volume of industrial robots in that year is about 180,000 units. At the 2014 World Robot and Intelligent Equipment Industry Conference just held, the industry has unanimously expected that the robot industry will show a boom.
Some people say that There are more than a billion people in China, but what is this tens of thousands of robots? But Shuiran can tell you that the work efficiency of a robot is at least equal to 1000 “people”! “People” have high and low morality and ability, “people” have mood and emotion, all these will affect the work efficiency of a “person”, but “robot” will not, they are very focused, can work day and night, including writing plans, implementation, writing summary, submit reports and so on, he did not complain.
A poll in the United States shows that four out of ten unemployed people blame robots and other new technologies for their inability to find work. An estimated 10 million unskilled jobs could be replaced by robots in the future, according to a report by deloitte and Oxford University. By 2033, 45 percent of U.S. jobs will be widely replaced by robots.
In Europe, doomsayers describe a “disaster” scenario for industry 4.0 production: empty, isolated factories, machines taking over people’s jobs, rising unemployment and, some say, the gradual disappearance of the “middle class.”
But I can tell you again: the factory of the future will never be empty. Why is that?
The biggest difference of Industry 4.0 lies in the different work contents that people are engaged in in production. “people” do not need to pay manual labor any more, blue-collar will no longer exist, and people will be engaged in planning, coordination, innovation and decision-making.
That means humans don’t have to worry about the process anymore, they just need to care about the result! “Robots” are responsible for products, and people are responsible for “robots”!
“Even in the era of Industry 4.0, our factories will not be empty,” said Dr. Wolfgang Schaefer, CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. More and more jobs will require the ability to program and maintain networked machines, and to fix them up when they break down. Being able to interpret complex data and work in teams with managers in addition to programming.
Because in the future, employees’ responsibilities will shift from simple execution level to more complex and important levels of control, operation and planning. Traditional blue-collar labor became less important and reprocessing, maintenance and system repair became more important.
In addition, the “future employee” will use and handle many brand new user interfaces. Now people usually use red, green and yellow indicator light to show the working state of the machine; In the future, ubiquitous sensors will display information quickly and in detail on the display of a smartphone or tablet, or on the lenses of smart glasses. Everyone will be involved in the problem solving process, and the whole process will become an organic whole: people, people and machines, machines and machines, all in harmony with each other, no one can do without each other, so the “future employee” must be able to understand all this knowledge!
Therefore, the industrial revolution brought by the rise of robots has put forward higher requirements for the quality of “people”, and hiring high-quality employees will become the single determinant of the success and profitability of the company in the future! There will be no blue collar in the future, from now on, each of us must have a sense of crisis and urgency, must step up learning!
In the future, “robot” although will be popular, but as long as human do not stop their pace of progress, innovation and invention as a belief, only then the decision-making power of the world will still be in our hands!
If the mission of “robots” is to replace human beings, then human beings’ mission is to replace God. Because humans have begun to create creators! Robots create the present, and humans create the future! Yes, industry 4.0 is man exercising God’s power!
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
Robot Development in China
Each country has its own strategy for “robots”. Europe has the Human Brain Project, The United States has the Next Generation of robots, and Japan has the Robot Revolution. What about China?
This year, China overtook Japan to become the world’s largest robot market, with sales likely to top 50,000 units and growth expected to continue at more than 40% annually for the next five years. China will account for one-fifth of the world’s robot market. In order to cope with the demographic dividend, many Chinese enterprises have adopted “machine replacement”.