Are you ready for some . . . . robots?

[Donuthole]

Does anyone over at FOX realize that the computer-generated robots are not cool, funny, clever, impressive, or any other positive adjective. Those things were stupid the day they first aired. Honestly, have you ever looked at it doing the electric slide and thought "haha that robot is doing the electric slide! That's funny!"? Have they ever even made you smile?

Every season for the past 5 years I've thought "no way they bring those back next year." But here we are. It's 2009 and FOX is still trotting out the CG robots. I'm not sure I can take another year of wondering about how clever that graphic artist must think he is.

[Slim]

Last night I had this dream that I'd somehow married a robot. So that is what I thought about when I read your thread title. Guess that is just me though.

[Surfah]

The robots are horrible. I thought the same exact thing.

Also, Cowboys Stadium is pretty much the baddest stadium on the planet. And where was this offense last week against the Raiders? Felix Jones should start in front of Marion.

[CardiacCoug]

Does anyone over at FOX realize that the computer-generated robots are not cool, funny, clever, impressive, or any other positive adjective. Those things were stupid the day they first aired. Honestly, have you ever looked at it doing the electric slide and thought "haha that robot is doing the electric slide! That's funny!"? Have they ever even made you smile?

Every season for the past 5 years I've thought "no way they bring those back next year." But here we are. It's 2009 and FOX is still trotting out the CG robots. I'm not sure I can take another year of wondering about how clever that graphic artist must think he is.

My son who is now 4 years old has been looking at it for the past two seasons and yelling "Transformers! Transformers!" Then he's bummed when he figures out it's just a football game and the robot doesn't turn into anything.

[Uncle Ted]

It seems that many jobs will be eliminated thanks to robots.

With a heavy regulatory burden, payroll taxes and health-care costs, employing people is very expensive. In January, the Golden Gate Bridge announced that it will have zero toll takers next year: They've been replaced by wireless FastTrak payments and license-plate snapshots.

Technology is eating jobs—and not just toll takers.

Tellers, phone operators, stock brokers, stock traders: These jobs are nearly extinct. Since 2007, the New York Stock Exchange has eliminated 1,000 jobs. And when was the last time you spoke to a travel agent? Nearly all of them have been displaced by technology and the Web. Librarians can't find 36,000 results in 0.14 seconds, as Google can. And a snappily dressed postal worker can't instantly deliver a 140-character tweet from a plane at 36,000 feet.

So which jobs will be destroyed next? Figure that out and you'll solve the puzzle of where new jobs will appear.

Not even doctors and lawyers are safe from robots...

But eDiscovery is the hottest thing right now in corporate legal departments. The software scans documents and looks for important keywords and phrases, displacing lawyers and paralegals who charge hundreds of dollars per hour to read the often millions of litigation documents. Lawyers, understandably, hate eDiscovery.

Doctors are under fire as well, from computer imaging that looks inside of us and from Computer Aided Diagnosis, which looks for patterns in X-rays to identify breast cancer and other diseases more cheaply and effectively than radiologists do.

In fact, the new Jeopardy! champion may be a robot...

Unlike other advanced software applications, Watson has a command of natural language, it can simultaneously launch hundreds of information-seeking algorithms, and, perhaps most importantly, it has the ability to learn and improve its performance over time.

Watson's creators trained it with thousands of Jeopardy! sample questions, eventually driving it to perform at championship level. Just as practice makes a person better at a particular task, machine learning techniques allow software applications to get better with experience. Watson-like technology has obvious applications in areas like customer service and support, legal research and medical diagnosis. And when it comes to learning, machines enjoy an important advantage over human workers: once a machine or software application has been trained, that knowledge and expertise can be replicated quickly and easily.

Didn't any of these people building these robots see the Terminator?

[Donuthole]

FTR, fox is still trotting out those stupid robots. At least it did during the Superbowl. Unreal.

[Uncle Ted]

FTR, fox is still trotting out those stupid robots. At least it did during the Superbowl. Unreal.

Where is Sarah Connor when we need her?

[Uncle Ted]

Krugman says don't bother getting a college education because you will just get replaced with a robot...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that education is the key to economic success. Everyone knows that the jobs of the future will require ever higher levels of skill. That’s why, in an appearance Friday with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, President Obama declared that “If we want more good news on the jobs front then we’ve got to make more investments in education.”

But what everyone knows is wrong.

[...]

And here’s the thing: Most of the manual labor still being done in our economy seems to be of the kind that’s hard to automate. Notably, with production workers in manufacturing down to about 6 percent of U.S. employment, there aren’t many assembly-line jobs left to lose. Meanwhile, quite a lot of white-collar work currently carried out by well-educated, relatively well-paid workers may soon be computerized. Roombas are cute, but robot janitors are a long way off; computerized legal research and computer-aided medical diagnosis are already here.

I guess I should have saved my money and gone to vo tech school.

[Donuthole]

Just saw that Fox still has the robots. At this point, I'm cheering for them to come back every season.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Just saw that Fox still has the robots. At this point, I'm cheering for them to come back every season.

Your anti-robot stance was silly. I'm glad you are now ready to welcome our robot overlords.

[pellegrino]

Your anti-robot stance was silly. I'm glad you are now ready to welcome our robot overlords.

amen.

[Mormon Red Death]

Just saw that Fox still has the robots. At this point, I'm cheering for them to come back every season.

What is even worse is there insistence onusing a christmas song for their entrance

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[New Mexican Disaster]

What is even worse is there insistence onusing a christmas song for their entrance

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I have been saying this since the beginning. It gets in your head and won't leave.

[Donuthole]

Bump. Superbowl is on Fox this year, so you know what that mean . . . . . . ROBOTS!

[Sizzle]

Bump. Superbowl is on Fox this year, so you know what that mean . . . . . . ROBOTS!

Did you not get the Christmas gift I sent?

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