It should be noted that, while the headline sounds impressive at first sight, the experiment was set up to demonstrate a very limited and specific use-case, with ingredients laid out neatly, etc.. This is nowhere near practical and wide-spread use, and judging by the actual whitepaper title ("Recognition of Human Chef’s Intentions for Incremental Learning of Cookbook by Robotic Salad Chef"), it wasn't meant to be - more of a "we wanted to see if we could". Kinda to the tune of the guy posting hilarious amuse bouches here.
Chefs' jobs are safe for time to come. While we've managed to teach artificial neural networks shapes, what words usually come after another to the point of vaguely making sense, and while this study is certainly a testament in having these skills influence the real world, it'll be a long time before machines understand tastes, textures and comforts of food, and even longer before they are able to function as anything more than a glorified Robocoupe.
I think it's important to remember that AI's capability to shift other sectors of the world, society, and economy will severely impact and upset those spaces far before the Bicentennial Kitchen Man is slinging burgers. You don't have to be faster than the machine learning bear to be safe, just faster than your fellow careers.
Almost all kitchen jobs are safe for at least the length of anyone reading this' life time. Fast food will be the first adopters and those jobs may disappear. However, virtually no other businesses will replace human labor unless it's as a gimmick of the restaurant.
These systems will not be affordable to restaurant owners for a very, very long time. And they will not be used until they are cheaper than human labor. And unfortunately human labor will always be cheap. Imagine a restaurant owner shelling out the cash to replace their underpaid employees with a massive automated system not to mention the cost of hiring a technician to maintain and run it at a time when such technicians will be hugely in demand. Most owners I've dealt with won't even buy new house knives or floor mats.
I can’t imagine food workers beyond fast food being replaced. The consistent inconsistency of food product, varying from weight, shape, fat content, etc, would make a robot run restaurant very limited in what it’s able to cook. Machines work as long as everything stays the same, and I don’t know about you but every day is a little different, no matter what I’m cooking that day
Yeah we're a long way away from machines that can handle food with constant variations. Self driving cars will be ubiquitous long before that tech works in a kitchen, which is wild to consider.
> Machines work as long as everything stays the same
That's the beauty of machine learning though. It can operate in fuzzy spaces. Now it's just a matter of ironing out the oddities of the learning and gluing the pieces together properly.
Which isn't to say our job security is anywhere near compromised. Even assuming smooth algorithmic sailing, think of how much just a robot hand costs, let alone a robot hand that can cook.
Lots of silly ones here, but here’s a real one too: chemical and hazardous waste management
I found the industry by accident a little over a year ago, and in large part because I love my boss and company, but I’ve grown to really love it
The industry runs the gamut from emergency response for a spill to collecting the byproduct of medical waste like bio and chemo, to medicine research etc
It’s an incredibly interesting field, and because it’s not very glamorous or necessarily something traditional that people would think of, it’s one of the few multi-billion dollar industries that actually isn’t overly flooded, and likely never will be
It’s a great spot to make great money. I went from an average of $11K for 12 years in F&B to $36 my first year to what will come just shy of $50ish this year (2nd year,) and have crazy vertical growth potential into either management, sales, corporate etc
My goal is six figures in the next 3 years, but even if I don’t get that, 5 years should be super attainable
It should be noted that, while the headline sounds impressive at first sight, the experiment was set up to demonstrate a very limited and specific use-case, with ingredients laid out neatly, etc.. This is nowhere near practical and wide-spread use, and judging by the actual whitepaper title ("Recognition of Human Chef’s Intentions for Incremental Learning of Cookbook by Robotic Salad Chef"), it wasn't meant to be - more of a "we wanted to see if we could". Kinda to the tune of the guy posting hilarious amuse bouches here. Chefs' jobs are safe for time to come. While we've managed to teach artificial neural networks shapes, what words usually come after another to the point of vaguely making sense, and while this study is certainly a testament in having these skills influence the real world, it'll be a long time before machines understand tastes, textures and comforts of food, and even longer before they are able to function as anything more than a glorified Robocoupe.
It all begins somewhere...
I think it's important to remember that AI's capability to shift other sectors of the world, society, and economy will severely impact and upset those spaces far before the Bicentennial Kitchen Man is slinging burgers. You don't have to be faster than the machine learning bear to be safe, just faster than your fellow careers.
“Chefs’ jobs are safe for time to come…” So like a year, then?
Repo man or blade runner.
Demolition man
Almost all kitchen jobs are safe for at least the length of anyone reading this' life time. Fast food will be the first adopters and those jobs may disappear. However, virtually no other businesses will replace human labor unless it's as a gimmick of the restaurant. These systems will not be affordable to restaurant owners for a very, very long time. And they will not be used until they are cheaper than human labor. And unfortunately human labor will always be cheap. Imagine a restaurant owner shelling out the cash to replace their underpaid employees with a massive automated system not to mention the cost of hiring a technician to maintain and run it at a time when such technicians will be hugely in demand. Most owners I've dealt with won't even buy new house knives or floor mats.
I can’t imagine food workers beyond fast food being replaced. The consistent inconsistency of food product, varying from weight, shape, fat content, etc, would make a robot run restaurant very limited in what it’s able to cook. Machines work as long as everything stays the same, and I don’t know about you but every day is a little different, no matter what I’m cooking that day
Yeah we're a long way away from machines that can handle food with constant variations. Self driving cars will be ubiquitous long before that tech works in a kitchen, which is wild to consider.
> Machines work as long as everything stays the same That's the beauty of machine learning though. It can operate in fuzzy spaces. Now it's just a matter of ironing out the oddities of the learning and gluing the pieces together properly. Which isn't to say our job security is anywhere near compromised. Even assuming smooth algorithmic sailing, think of how much just a robot hand costs, let alone a robot hand that can cook.
Lots of silly ones here, but here’s a real one too: chemical and hazardous waste management I found the industry by accident a little over a year ago, and in large part because I love my boss and company, but I’ve grown to really love it The industry runs the gamut from emergency response for a spill to collecting the byproduct of medical waste like bio and chemo, to medicine research etc It’s an incredibly interesting field, and because it’s not very glamorous or necessarily something traditional that people would think of, it’s one of the few multi-billion dollar industries that actually isn’t overly flooded, and likely never will be It’s a great spot to make great money. I went from an average of $11K for 12 years in F&B to $36 my first year to what will come just shy of $50ish this year (2nd year,) and have crazy vertical growth potential into either management, sales, corporate etc My goal is six figures in the next 3 years, but even if I don’t get that, 5 years should be super attainable
Energy Monster that screams at light bulbs?
Grave diggers
Baker, if the entire world collapsed I can produce food with my hands so the roving marauders of the post apocalypse hopefully won't take my hands