Toyota is firing robots!

Trust thought for today - people vs machine or machines in service of people.

'People are underestimated' Elon Musk tweeted. (Y'don't say Elon, glad you got there in the end mate.)

Liking this article 'Toyota is firing robots' which shows how Toyota have realised they too went too far in automation and lost quality and innovation as a result. So people are back, doing the things that robots didn't have the brains to do. From Der Tagesspiegel shared by @Dirk Fischer via Junior Schoeman

"Robots do not improve processes. Only humans can improve processes. That's why they should always be the focus. "

The mindset behind automation, and that includes AI as well as robotics is, nicely put by a commentator Jam S. is the feeling that:

"People are expensive and complicated as hell, complain and demand too much, not trustworthy, hard to manage, won't accept being enslaved, faulty..." So let's replace them with machines.

But as we are all finding, in everything from basic accounting software to high tech robots they are passive, and only as good as the people who created them and the constraining of purpose to which they are put. Which so many have been saying all along.

This article was a comment in response to yesterdays post from the FT that automation is creating inequality because we are not replacing the automated jobs with shiny new ones in many area. Also worth a read. Sorry paywall.

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