Future of IT - Robotics, AI or BI?

Current decade will see more advancement in Robotics
and AI. In fact japan is much advanced in robotics. They are trying to put all five senses in robots. Engineers are working to create a robot that has human like intelligence, can think, and take decisions and can replace human job functions such as teachers, nurses(medical robots), doctors and other highly paid job functions. Some of the job functions have successfully been replaced such as cashiers(Automated check out counters), tellers (ATM with deposit functions and other job functions).


Now many software tools and applications have been generated that has reduced or replaced many programmers functions. Basically "A" (humans) are working hard to create "B" (machine or robot) to replace "A". One thing is clear that our intentions are not for the benefits of human kind though we always market it(to improve efficiency) as the benefit to human society.

Has any person ever thought what human will do after that? Feeding these machines, programming them, removing their bugs, making roads so that these machines can work smoothly. After that what?

On the other hand we all humans are more like robots. We are pre programmed to do certain tasks like (taking breath, doing other routine jobs) when we are born. Then we are programmed(thru educations) more to do certain specific tasks. Over a period of time we build intelligence through programming and (response feed back loop). The production process of these robots is very environment friendly. It does not need huge area to produce. And we are six billions in numbers, with different intelligence, thinking power and abilities.

These robots just need right programming(education and training) and a right communication protocol( Common language and culture knowledge). We need right programmers (teachers, political leaders, trainers) to use these robots (that anyway we want to build thru technologies).

I think a time has come when we need the right marriages between machine and humans and not divorces(replacing humans with machines).

We engineers and doctors have a larger role to play than anybody else in society. IT engineers hold the key for the future of humans.