We are witnessing the evolution of machines and robots taking on the jobs that used to be done by humans. The change we are seeing is effective in many ways but it also raises a lot of questions. Will robots take away all our jobs? Why do we need robots? Will there be new jobs for humans? - and the list goes on. The world is already facing a huge problem of unemployment in the job sector. As technology is increasing day by day, robots are becoming smarter and more efficient. They can perform tasks with perfection thus making fewer errors. So, we can’t deny the fact that a day will come when robots will be in every workplace and there will be fewer jobs available for us.
Today, we at Puminati Digital are going to debate Robots vs Humans! Are we ready to face them? Robots and Computers are very beneficial for companies with big production as they save money and work faster and more precisely. Slowly, many businesses and even government organizations have begun to use more machines.
Will robots take away our jobs?
We were wondering, if there was a time when people used to design cars, manufacture them, and drive them too. Nowadays, we can see Robots are used to manufacture cars and they are the ones who are driving them now. It indicates that already many human jobs have been lost and in the coming future many buses and taxi drivers will lose their jobs.
Now if you see, the number of employees in the retail and bank sectors has reduced significantly. Self-serve machines and ATMs have come up which means people can do most of the tasks by themselves thus fewer employees are needed. There are many examples like many pharmacies use robots instead of people to fill out the prescriptions. Also, the software has been developed which can generate stories and articles. It means there the work of the writers has been reduced. There is software that can review documents that would have previously been analyzed by lawyers.
Machines nowadays can now do a lot of tasks that humans used to do. Nasa has developed its robot astronauts that will be sent to space instead of humans. Drones and robot soldiers will take the place of human soldiers, but we can see it as an advantage because they will save human lives.
However, we recently saw a very nice initiative by the Toyota car company. They have decided to take a step back and hire more human employees instead of robots. The Toyota peoples think that if trained properly humans can be more efficient than robots. Every robot works at the same pace and according to how they are programmed. They cannot think of their own. Humans are masters and create better products in the workplace.
Humans are superior to Robots. As of now!
If we talk about numbers there are around 1.2 million industrial machines and robots that work across the world. However, there are so many fields in which they cannot replace us. as humans are way better than robots and cannot be replaced by artistic jobs that use our creativity and imagination. Computers have still not been able to reach that milestone. There are robots that perform surgery, but they cannot complete all the tasks in a hospital. They may have steadier hands but they don’t have certain emotions that are needed to deal with the patients. When it comes to human interaction, robots are unable to show compassion, and hence cannot replace us.
Conclusion
We also understand that no matter how complex a robot’s emotional hardware becomes, a machine is simply a set of behaviors programmed to sense and exhibit. Robots are getting better and better at learning and applying what they have learned to new situations, but they are still far from responding to unexpected situations with the same dexterity as a human.
We, humans, are slowly getting used to having robots around us. However, it will take some time for the average adult to react to a fully autonomous robot as they do in futuristic movies - discussing an injury with a semi-sensitive machine as if he could fully understand the annoyance. So, what is your take on Humans vs Robots?
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