Humanoid Robots at Amazon Provide Glimpse of an Automated Workplace — Bloomberg Businessweek

It is an era that will be defined by a fundamental shift in the relationship between workers and machines. That shift will ultimately challenge one of our most basic assumptions about technology: that machines are tools that increase the productivity of workers. Instead, machines themselves are turning into workers, and the line between the capabil

believed society was approaching the singularity, when artificial intelligence would become so advanced that humans and machines would be indistinguishable.

“We may end up with a future in which a fraction of the workforce will do a portfolio of things to generate an income—you could be an Uber driver, an Instacart shopper, an Airbnb host and a TaskRabbit.”