The automation depression is coming

The rise of AI and ChatGPT is freaking some people out.

Some say an automation depression is coming because at least 50% of all jobs will be eliminated.

This isn’t the first time automation has caused a panic.

AI has been around long before ChatGPT.

The word automation comes from ancient Greece.

In Greek mythology, there are many references to self-moving machines.

The Greeks were able to design and build self-directed machines. There is evidence that they built a bronze automaton of an eagle and a dolphin that were on display at the Olympic Games.

Many of the automatons developed were only toys, such as the birds invented by Archytas (c. 428–347 BC).

Henry Ford created the assembly line, which changed how cars were assembled.

Today, robots do most of the work in car factories.

My nephew is an engineer at Ford who designed transmissions.

Electric cars don’t have a transmission so he’s moved on to a new position designing electric cars.

A few years ago I was in Milwaukee for my cousin’s wedding.

Of course, we toured the Miller Brewery.