Humans vs Robots
Robotics
Invasion and Career Protection
"The
Battle Has Begun...Discover Your Knockout Punch!"
by Bob Schott
Honorary Member AAAS
(American
Association for Advancement of Science)
in
Collaboration with Jonathan Arnold, Esq. and
Lead Paralegal Academy Instructor
Of the many different articles on Creativity we've
published here on LFC, the one of AI/Robotics seems to
garner a lot of attention as it is constantly appearing
in the news with the latest developments and often
irresponsible threats to humans approach. In this
article I want to take a harder stand on the side of
Humans vs Robots. While it may irritate a lot of those
techies in lab coats, the focus here is on power
proofing your career against AI or Robotic replacement
scares being spread all over the web and media. Let's do
this by examining the differences between Humans and
Robots and hopefully show you some creative career
boosting protections. And no, I'm not a member of the
Ostrich (Head in the Sand) Science Club or Flat Earth
Society, just calling it like it is.
Whether or
not you are getting your Paralegal certification with
LDA or your Strategic Human Resource and aPHR to land a
career at a firm or to go it alone and start your own
business for yourself or as a freelancer as we discuss
in many of our articles and career boosting tips, you
can consider this article applicable and useful in all
cases.
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As mentioned in many of our unique articles, articles
and tips you won't find on any college site, you can bet
on that one, CREATIVITY (in caps of course) is one of
your key and most powerful defenses against this
seemingly threatening job/career interventions or should
I say, Invention Interventions. Problem Solving through
Creativity is a huge asset if you use it to your
advantage while lacking in it produces limited results.
You may see references to the phrase 'Creativity and
Problem Solving' are huge assets, but look at that
statement as 'Creative Problem Solving'.
Let's
look at some revealing comparisons usually and maybe
even conveniently left out by a lot of Science
publications or articles pushed by most of the pocket
pencil mad scientist lab techs pushing their robotic
trade inventions.
What About Experience?
Robots have no
experience, only examples of 'Experience Related data'
programmed into them and by a Human who's experiences
differ from Human to Human and limited in scope
depending on who's doing the programming of course.
Being able to call upon your life's experience is a
major Human asset. For example you could call upon your
experience in a foreign country or out of the way
location you 'experienced' to add to your work. A Robot
can't do that, it can only refer to data programmed into
and pieced together in some fashion based on logic.
What about 'Imagination' (Imaginative Thinking)?
Michael Osborne, associate professor in machine
learning at the University of Oxford (the alma mater of
our lead instructor, Jonathan), discussed in an article
in the Guardian some intelligent steps to future-proof
your job against the robot revolution. The article
suggests that People are creative because they
understand the properties of objects in the world and
robots lack a high level of cognitive ability but that
software is attempting to overcome some of that.
'Attempting to overcome?' Well, in a generalized sense,
perhaps, but I challenge that there is far greater depth
required to encompass that statement in a far more
'fuller' manner that involves more of human nature and
experience, more elements AI and Robotics are missing
and will never acquire.
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Can robots truly be
Creative and use Elements of Imagination?
Maybe possibly and perhaps
in a 'mechanical' manner. Ok, you ask 'well what about
experiments in incorporating human DNA/RNA injected into
their microchips?' Well, even if that happens, and sure,
there are these Dr. Who scientists who just can't leave
mother nature alone seem to be attempting to do just
that. But the amount of creativity they inject would be
determined by the creativity of the human in which they
extracted the DNA from and planted. I know what you
Robot promoters are thinking here, "Yah? Well what if
they injected DNA from Einstein, how about that?" Ok,
but... what if they injected DNA from the 3 Stooges,
Moe, Larry or Curly? Either way what you're really
looking at is an 'Emulated' version, and...if Robots are
such great inventions and so advanced, why do they need
'Human DNA?'. Are you starting to get the picture or
feel a little stronger about all this yet?
The Human 'Heart' of Music vs The Mechanical
'Technical' Production
Let's take a quick look at
one interesting example involving a historic Music
Comparison of what was considered the 'Most Popular
Music Event in History', Woodstock' era 1969 with the
music of today decades later. Anyone who hasn't been
living in a cave has heard of that event. Over 400,000
people came from all over to attend the 3 day event at a
farm in Woodstock in the rain to be apart of
'controversial' music history and to see Rock and Roll
Icons and Legends perform at one time at one place. One
such iconic star was Carlos Santa. In an interview
Carlos Santana was asked a question that had more
relevance to this topic than he could have imagined at
the time. He was asked about music composition and what
music schooling the performers had, etc.. His answer to
the interviewer..."We didn't even know what a Bar Chord
was, what you saw there was straight from the Heart
man,!" Today's music in comparison, has evolved into
computerized technological manipulations of chords,
vocals, computerized FXs, over dubbing phase shifting,
etc., some of it so much so that at times it often
sounds pasteurized and homogenized in comparison and if
you know how to listen to music, pretty much all sounds
the same at times. An artist comes into the recording
studio, sings half the song, then leaves while the
technicians copy and paste it to make the last half to
the background music that was also copied and pasted. In
other words, no 'Heart!', and there lies the Robotic
element...remember what the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz
needed? That's right...a 'Heart!' Chock one up for
Humans in the Heart category. Most of the best artists
past and present try their best to protect their
creativity and heart from the technical elements, and at
times it can be tough to deal with for some artists.
Another lesson here, 'don't let the technical override
your creative, believe me, while it's often not easy in
today's high-tech world, it's not always to your
advantage.
As we constantly feature in our
articles, creativity is arguably the most difficult
human faculty to automate: Robots are unlikely to be
fully creative any time soon. Automation usually
requires exactly the kind of explicit instruction as to
how to solver a problem that comes Naturally with
Creativity. Sure, you can play around with algorithms to
pump out an endless sequence of artwork or songs for
example, but how do they program an algorithm to
differentiate between the Powerful and Captivating
element of Emotion - vs - the 'Boring Stuff??' And
that's just a starter as when you add elements of Human
Ideas captured from a wide array of sources that include
that all important other category of Emotion,
'Inspiration... technology takes another hitThe Human
'Heart' of Music vs The Mechanical 'Technical'
Production
Let's take a quick look at one
interesting example involving a historic Music
Comparison of what was considered the 'Most Popular
Music Event in History', Woodstock' era 1969 with the
music of today decades later. Anyone who hasn't been
living in a cave has heard of that event. Over 400,000
people came from all over to attend the 3 day event at a
farm in Woodstock in the rain to be apart of
'controversial' music history and to see Rock and Roll
Icons and Legends perform at one time at one place. One
such iconic star was Carlos Santa. In an interview
Carlos Santana was asked a question that had more
relevance to this topic than he could have imagined at
the time. He was asked about music composition and what
music schooling the performers had, etc.. His answer to
the interviewer..."We didn't even know what a Bar Chord
was, what you saw there was straight from the Heart
man,!" Today's music in comparison, has evolved into
computerized technological manipulations of chords,
vocals, computerized FXs, over dubbing phase shifting,
etc., some of it so much so that at times it often
sounds pasteurized and homogenized in comparison and if
you know how to listen to music, pretty much all sounds
the same at times. An artist comes into the recording
studio, sings half the song, then leaves while the
technicians copy and paste it to make the last half to
the background music that was also copied and pasted. In
other words, no 'Heart!', and there lies the Robotic
element...remember what the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz
needed? That's right...a 'Heart!' Chock one up for
Humans in the Heart category. Most of the best artists
past and present try their best to protect their
creativity and heart from the technical elements, and at
times it can be tough to deal with for some artists.
Another lesson here, 'don't let the technical override
your creative, believe me, while it's often not easy in
today's high-tech world, it's not always to your
advantage.
As we constantly feature in our
articles, creativity is arguably the most difficult
human faculty to automate: Robots are unlikely to be
fully creative any time soon. Automation usually
requires exactly the kind of explicit instruction as to
how to solver a problem that comes Naturally with
Creativity. Sure, you can play around with algorithms to
pump out an endless sequence of artwork or songs for
example, but how do they program an algorithm to
differentiate between the Powerful and Captivating
element of Emotion - vs - the 'Boring Stuff??' And
that's just a starter as when you add elements of Human
Ideas captured from a wide array of sources that include
that all important other category of Emotion,
'Inspiration... technology takes another hit
Difficulty in Automating
Ideas from Multiple Sources
Another problem is that it is difficult to automate
the combination of ideas from many different sources
that forms the source of much of human creativity: For
example, pulling from life experiences and captivating
moments. Good news that supports everything we've been
featuring on this subject is supported by reports from
the University of Oxford and the Guardian article that
"almost 90% of creative jobs are at low or no risk of
automation."
Understanding (of Human
Nature
Finding those elements in life that are Fascinating
and Understanding how those play out in Humans is
something a Robot simply cannot do 'Naturally', meaning,
without a pre-programmed set of responses. Sure, it can
be programmed to give a wide array of responses, but how
fluently can it come up with them on their own? Any
response provided by a pile of silicon microchip
programmed machine is going to sound just like that, a
programmed machine and it 'ain't' comin' from the
'Heart'.
Human vs Robot vs Writing?
What about
the human's ability to 'Know What to Write About?' Sure,
if it's a mathematical calculation piece perhaps a Robot
excels in speed and accuracy, but overall a Robot,
depending on it's programming/programmer(s), is limited
to non-creative speculation, logic without emotion,
logic without experience, logic without human nature,
etc., 'too much Bun and Little Meat.'
According
to Barinder Hothi, co-founder of The Knowledge Academy a
global education provider, one option is to look at the
skills shortages where you live and invest in the
relevant training. Let's add one more element to his
theory, "look to the career category you choose and
invest in what we've been urging you to strategize on,
'Familiarity' of Career Category subsets you choose.
Studies have shown two-thirds of the shift away from
automatable tasks will be driven by people changing the
way they work, not changing careers or jobs.
Source:
AlphaBeta, O*Net, ABS
Here's a fairly brief
descriptive that illustrates the sub-non-human aspect.
"The Brain" - more for the Computer Science
gurus, mainly dealing in hardware and software design.
"The Body" - more for Mechanical Engineering Courses
that often focuses more on physical design and
actuation. Sounds more like building a car doesn't it?
"The Nervous System" - Electrical and Electronic
Engineering and Control
Moral of the Story?
Don't
be a victim of Silicon Valley, 'stick it to em!'
According to Martin Ford, author and futurist mentioned
earlier, "The best thing you can do in your career
workload is to make sure you're not doing something
routine, mundane, repetitive and predictable, Move into
other areas, things that involve perhaps working more
with people, or being creative."...'Gee, wonder where we
heard that before?'
Trends are changing and there
are many firms incorporating new methods of providing
legal services that include benefits for clients to use
their services over fixed costs of high priced law
firms, Some firms such as Elevate and Axiom state they
can provide talent with day vs week integration and save
50-75% vs. law firms, and avoid the fixed costs of
full-time hires. There's that 'creative thing' again and
for those wanting to start your own PL/LDA or SHR/aPHR
Business, another opening1
As we've mentioned
before, reaching an audience can often produce best
results through persuasive story telling, something
difficult for robotics to do without seeming to be
contrived and scripted, or better yet 'Robotic!' While
as a paralegal you may not be practicing law by giving
legal advice or representation, you are still
'communicating' and communicating must be of a
persuasive nature to gain confidence from your client.
Therefore, be creative, be innovative, be 'natural'.Let
the Robots be Robots and don't act like one and you'll
gain the confidence of your client.
Here's
another powerful tip, make a friend with your clients
when occasions arise. Who on earth really wants a Robot
for a friend? Sure, no doubt there's a few pencil
sharpeners out there that would try that one, but go
that direction and you've gone down a primrose path
where you may very well lose your way back from!.
Summary
Comparing Humans to Robots is many
times a science effort full of egotistical shortfalls.
Now let's have some good ole' fashion fun here and
irritate the 'quiz kids' at Silicon Valley by looking at
this lineup comparison you won't find anywhere else and
see what kind of advantage your actually have that you
may have taken for granted: By the way, what's not
listed is the Robots increased ability to perform the
mundane, repetitive work functions with extreme accuracy
as those are all touted by science articles, but that's
not what you're about as a PL or SHR Human is it? 'So
here ya' go!'
The Humans vs Robots Comparison
Humans Have
*Natural Behavior
Heart
Veins
Blood
Breath Lungs
Brain
Life Experience
Discovery
Emotion
Feelings
Logic
Opinions
Independence
Desire
Creativity
Understanding
Common Sense
Imagination
Human Nature
Whole
Being Cells
*Spirit Soul
Robots Have
*Programmed Emulation
Battery
Wires Electrical Current
Cooling Fans
Microchips
Library Database
Programmed Simulation
Sensors
Programmed Responses
Programmed Responses
n/a
(and hope they never do)
None - 'Out for Repair'
Computerized Functioning
Data Base Reasoning
Data Base Reasoning
Calculations
'MIA' (Missing in Action)
Parts
Components Solder
*Definitely No Cigar Here!
*Main Difference
'And the Winner is?
Humans:
'YEAAAY!!
Robots: 'NAAAY!!'
Think I'll take
'Yeaay!!... how 'bout' you?
Now while this
'Ain't' All, exactly what are you afraid of now, because
adding up your list of Assets vs Robots should give you
a comfort zone for a solid 'Career Boosting
Approach'...if you're paying attention and use it to
your Advantage that is!
Robots should be looked
as Human 'Support Tools', however one area where their
replacement of humans may be most valuable is in
'Battle' where human lives are spared. But for Career or
Job replacement purposes, their advantage and main
threat is on mundane repertory assembly line and
advanced calculative work type job functions, all of the
boring job/career limitations which you may just want to
avoid. Another thing this 'vs' comparison does is to
show you or should I say, 'Wake' (Woke) you up to some
Human capabilities and assets many completely overlook
instead of harnessing their power, and that potential
power is Considerable!
So not to get too
technical with you here, look at all this 'complex
scientific comparison 'stuff' another way. Does anyone
reading this actually believe that sitting around
figuring out complex math formulas all day long is an
exciting way to spend your time? Well... maybe, if
you're betting on the horse races and using the Daily
Racing Form to calculate the winner of the Pix Six. That
is until the horse that came out highest in your
advanced astronomical mathematical calculations comes in
last because he wasn't 'FEELING' good that day! You get
the idea!
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