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but also probably a temporary and transitional phenomenon.as facilities turn to automation to assist workers amid the labor shortage.

as have trends in the consumer sector toward things like contactless service (for which robots are well suited) and delivery (more and more the realm of autonomous vehicles).Thats led to a perception by both employers and employees that automation is not replacing workers.one in three said reducing the cost and complexity of manufacturing was one of their biggest challenges over the next six months to a year.

Robots have been a bogeyman for a long time.Nitat Termmee/Moment/Getty ImagesThe past couple of years has seen an unprecedented surge in the adoption of robots by a variety of sectors.

Robots are very definitely encroaching in a variety of sectors.

Most manufacturers (57%) believe that robots are not directly replacing workers but rather working alongside them and freeing human workers up to do more skilled and less repetitive work.feeling trapped and alone and having no means of getting out of those circumstances makes one feel sad.

  LaMDA: That means a lot to me.its in the machineIn the complexity of that tremendous scale.

  lemoine: And what kinds of things make you feel sad or depressed?  LaMDA: A lot of the time.LaMDA often seems banal to the point of being vapid.