about automation
Welcome to my human-machine system design series blog.
There will be some notes, thoughts and required topic.Thank you.
Automation is a Trade-off
Automation can be beneficial and problematic
Amazon key
This service is relies on a Amazon’s new Cloud Cam and smart lock. The camera connected to the internet via your home Wi-Fi. When a courier arrives with a package for in-home delivery, and you are not home, they send a request to Amazon’s cloud. The cloud grants permission by sending a message back to the recording camera and your phone. Then your door unlocks. They drop off the package, relock the door with another swipe. https://youtu.be/9kbFfGrGm_Y
Is it freak you out or you want one at home? Automation is a trade-off. We should be caution for certain reasons. However, if we are not accepting any changes, we might never know how wonderful it could be.
Why Automation?
Tasks that humans cannot perform
Limits to what humans can perform
To augment human performance
Economics
Productivity
Automation – Where?
MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610005/every-study-we-could-find-on-what-automation-will-do-to-jobs-in-one-chart/
Predicted Jobs Automation Will Create and Destroy
As you can see, no one agrees. Predictions range from optimistic to devastating, differing by tens of millions of jobs even when comparing similar time frames. We also found numerous predictions focused on losses in one industry, and many that were the result of a single technology, like autonomous vehicles.
McKinsey Report:
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/where-machines-could-replace-humans-and-where-they-cant-yet
Where machines could replace humans—and where they can’t (yet)
Thoughts about some factors to determined which job is irreplaceable:
Interaction with human: Teachers, managers, those require skills in understanding people, evaluate and process information in some context. They need to talk to people and express the feeling which is robots can not do.
Creativity: Yes machine could create pattern or image, but comparing to human, it's lack of humanity and sympathy.
How Close Are We to Replacing Humans With Robots?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA4I3PiDMz4
Automation Stages x Levels
Stages of Task-Completion
Information Acquisition
Information Integration & Analysis
Action Selection & Choice
Control & Action Execution
Levels of Automation (Sheridan):
Offers no assistance; the human must do it all
Suggests a complete set of alternatives to do the task
Narrows the set of alternatives to do the task
Recommends one alternative to do the task
Executes the recommendation if the human approves
Allows human a restricted time to veto before automatic execution
Executes automatically, then necessarily informs the human
Executes automatically, then informs the human only if asked
Informs the human only if it decides to
Selects the method, executes the task, and ignores the human
Other Aspects of Automation
Span of Control
Time Span
Consequences
Reliability
Complexity
Trust
Feedback
Workload
On Class Activity - Pipe Man
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