A greater understanding of how highly skilled operators obtain high machine performance and productivity can inform machine development and advance construction automation technology.
Unfortunately, it's all too easy to make the case that most Americans will be left behind, because smart machines will end up devaluing the contribution of workers, including highly skilled workers whose skills suddenly become redundant.
"We want to develop well-rounded, highly skilled police officers, not arrest machines," he said.
Evans struggled to find the money to pay the highly skilled carpenters needed to construct his complex machines.
In other words, highly skilled workers are hired to operate and service new machines, while less-skilled workers are let go because the machines can do their work.
At the high end of the spectrum, you begin to see what the U.S. manufacturing economy is going through now — expensive products, like medical devices, which are often made by machines that are operated by highly skilled workers.
The problem is that to instruct a CNC machine to turn a 3D design into a finished part requires it to be fed pre-programmed sequences of machine control commands, which currently is a highly skilled and manual process.
These are highly skilled people and this will never be taken over by a machine, that's for sure".
They entail the replacement of low-and medium-skilled workers with machines operated by a much smaller number of highly skilled workers.
Clearly, a machine that is very successful in many different runs of the game that last for quite extended periods of time and that involve highly skilled participants in the other roles has a much stronger claim to intelligence than a machine that has been successful in a single, short run of the game with highly inexpert participants.
