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Is automation beneficial for our society?

Is the rise in technologies enabling reliance in automation a help or a hinderance? Are we becoming to rely too much on tech to the extent that we're loosing a human touch? Or is it progressing and advancing our capabilities? Thank you! #tech

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Bharath’s Answer

Automation is extremely beneficial for our society. Looking back at progress since the 1700s, automation and factories from the steam age, industrial evolution, computing age and the present age of connectivity, we have managed to add and provide jobs to an ever growing population. Older, manual occupations tend to die out and are replaced by more skilled work that does not require mechanical 'cookie cutter' tasks, but rather requires you to apply intelligence to solve complex issues.


Case in point is farming. What previously required a small army of laborers toiling for long days and harvests can now be automated for a fraction of the cost with better yield. What about the laborers who were previously employed on the farm? They have had to upskill themselves to manage new farming processes and produce new farming equipment. The same principle applies to all other industries as well.

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Thomas’s Answer

Automation helps increase the productivity in the repeated tasks, also it bring efficiency.

Some of the automation benefits.

  • Improve quality / reduce manual & error prone work - Improve efficiency in what we do.
  • Enable applications to be more performant - identify long running processes and non-reliable systems.
  • Enhance predictability & confidence around meeting SLAs - identify potential blockers in your business flow.
  • Discover anomalies and deviations in data quality - create smart rules/automations that highlight non-compliant source data.



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Bruna’s Answer

Automation is for the purpose when we have a task performed many times manually, so we use technology (a program, scripts, bash, machine learning...) to accomplish that task with as little human interaction as possible. Any task that's performed more than once should be automated, even if it's a simple task that takes a few seconds. If a task takes five seconds to complete but needs to be performed ten times a day, automation can save you over four hours a year if completing time is reduced to one second.

When should you not automate?

Although automation helps with many tasks, there is still the following reason why you may not want to automate a task.

- Cannot justify the time or money required to program the automation.
- The task is not repeated frequently enough.
- Task requires some human intelligence that cannot be programmed.
- There are too many unknown variables that make automation impossible.
- Protection (e.g., CAPTCHA) prevents automation.

So answering to your question, to automate something until we get to the point we don't have human touch, in other words, to replace human jobs or social interaction with automation would require too many unknown variables, for now it is not possible and I don't know if there will be a day it will happen, our brain is the most complex machine. I'd rather say it progressing and advancing our capabilities.
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