Automation 101 part one: What can be automated and what cannot be?

My next few blogs will be about automation.

Lets start with Automation 101: what can be automated and what cannot be.

Imagine a bot who can understand creativity and meritocracy of a steemit post and upvote accordingly. Investors wanting to earn profit from steemit curation delegate large amount of steems to bots. Bots walk through posts of ones liking, summarize it, read it for the author with Amzaon Echo or Google Home. We even don't have to open steemit webpage to comment, our bots can do all the work in steemit for ourselves.

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It is not the distant future, it is already here. A scientist have taught Amazon Echo using machine learning to read the abstract of papers about AI from arxiv.org- a scientific paper repository [1]. Gentle Bot and Things-2 bot already walk through the comments in steem-it and upvote good comments.

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Imagine in near future, all the tasks in home and office are performed by bots or robots. Imagine when you returns home, a smart home welcomes you, it lights up with your favorite color, plays music according to your mood and keeps temperature to your liking. This technology is already here. In near future, Asimo like robot butler may cook your food, collect your cloths for laundry, play with your pets and whatever you want him to do.

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The issue that robot butlers of si-fi are not already not in our home is due to lack of mechanical intelligence. Software based AI is already pretty intelligent. Conversion of AI to mechanics upto human level has been quite challenging. It took years for Honda to make walking robot like Asimo. However, with exponential rise of technology, robot achieving human level mechanics within in decades reach.

With recent news of Google's AlphaGo AI beating World champion Go player and OpenAI beating the greatest Dota2 player, there rise a question what else AI cannot do? Self-driving cars are already hurling in our roads.

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Bot traders outnumber human counterparts in stock exchanges. High end manufacturing jobs are dominated by Industrial robots. AI have invented their own language.

Robots can cook. Robots can do farming..

Robots can be your funeral priest.

Question is what AI/robots cannot do in near future (2030)?

Next part: What robots cannot probably do by year 2030?

My past blogs: https://steemit.com/technology/@crypto-futurist/rise-of-dataism-in-the-age-of-iots-cryptocurrency-and-ubi