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I was listening to the Tim Ferris interview with Marc Andreesen and he said that some econ group (World Economic Forum??, World Bank?) did a study saying that automated systems would destroy 5,000,000 jobs by 2020.

He put this in perspective by saying that the US economy destroyed 21,000,000 jobs last year and created 23,500,000. He pointed out that the rate of job destruction in the US has actually slowed over the last 50 years. So he doesnt' see a problem.

To me, he is missing the thing Ray Kurzweil says everyone misses - potential for exponential growth. Will the exponential growth in job destruction be matched by exponential growth in job creation?

http://gizmodo.com/boston-dynamics-made-a-robot-baby-giraffe-that-can-do-y-1782491650

At least after this robot is doing taking over the world it can do the dishes. But it's one weakness seems to be banana peels.

This is old but blew me away.

Colin Furze is an eccentric video blogger  who was previously a plumber. He became famous through lots of his mad inventions.

This one tops the lot though. A bunker under his garden (funded by Sky TV)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGjbAdaOBLBlS1MPKXYmqwZLZhWC1FAMx

>South of Market area in San Francisco

That area has become extremely gentrified in recent years.  I am not sure that's the place to launch a robot made burger joint.  I mean, it will probably get some attention at first, but I could see the hipsters turning their collective noses up at it.

Just cam here to post this same link.  Sometimes this thread gives me genuine chills. This is one of those times.

Combine with this one for real nightmares http://www.alphr.com/technology/1003863/lab-grown-drones-could-be-the-future-of-warfare

Read the above?

Add a splash of this algo and now we're really getting somewhere:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/scientists-taught-a-robot-to-hunt-prey-deep-learning-visualise

Yeah, that event definitely belongs in this thread.

It was a remote control machine, not an autonomous robot. Yet, it was a bomb strapped to a machine which created distance between the operator and the target -- much like a drone strike.