Trump treasury secretary: R2-D2 won't take your job for 50 years

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.

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Perhaps you've been worried that someone will soon design a robot that can do your job.

Yes, a robot that can play politics even
better than you do.

And, on a grander scale, what if a robot came along that could code even faster than Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and be a slightly better speaker?

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin believes there's little reason to worry. In an interview with Mike Allen of Axios, Mnuchin was asked how artificial intelligence would affect jobs (around the 46.50 second mark).

"In terms of artificial intelligence taking over American jobs, we're, like, so far away from that that it's not even on my radar screen," he said. He said it would be "50 or 100 more years" before humans should worry about robots making them dispensable.

But wait, aren't robots already taking over human jobs and, indeed, the human ability to...
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