Kevin Kelly Better Than Human

In “Better Than Human,” Kevin Kelly discusses that we live in an economy where the revolution of technology is becoming more common. He states that “automation has eliminated all but 1 percent of their jobs, replacing them (and their work animals) with machines” (299). Soon jobs that are paperwork related will also be replaced with bots and so on. Automation will be so epic that it will soon do jobs as a lawyer, doctor, or an even a surgeon. Kelly states that creating robots will allow us to “see how far artificial intelligence has penetrated our lives” (301). For example, robot designer Rodney Brooks (a former MIT professional) has brought his ideas into creating a work-bot called Baxter. He was created to work alongside humans and could also be capable of learning multiple different abilities. By creating ideas like this it will give us the opportunity to teach bots how to do our work for us. …show more content…
Kelly then explains how robot replacement will happen and he also discusses compared relations between a human and a robot. For this reason, it will dictate whether robots will take over existing jobs or make new ones. In other words, Kelly briefly discusses in the article about each quadrant, from A to D, with the differences of existing jobs and newer jobs from occupations for humans and for robots; in response, this would be just a discussion about the capabilities when robots are going to be replacing human jobs in the industrial field. As Kelly states, “In the coming years our relationships with robots will become ever more complex”