The topic is a bit of a big question, so I'll try to answer it.
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally applied to real life, not just in the laboratory stage. Specifically in real life, the role of AI is to gradually penetrate, gradually deep, rather than a one-time complete replacement.
The first industry that may be replaced is the assembly line workers. Foxconn, Compal and other representatives of the foundry industry quickly pulled the economy of the Yangtze River Delta region, Kunshan City, for example, at the end of 2014 Kunshan household population of 769,746, at the end of 2014 Kunshan resident population of 1,653,300 people. Foxconn, Compal, Asus and many other foundries need to rely on a large number of "cheap labor" to complete the assembly of computers, cell phones and other basic work, many workers may be labeling, packaging, assembly and other very unskilled types of work, these types of work is likely to be gradually replaced with the development of artificial intelligence. According to the disclosure of the Kunshan Municipal Government, last year alone, including Foxconn, Kunshan City **** 35 Taiwanese enterprises contributed 610 million U.S. dollars for the replacement of machines. (Source: /585/5854276.html) "Cheap labor" and no technical content, naturally to be eliminated.
Web editor. Including Tencent, there are many Internet companies have begun to enable robots to replace artificial to edit the news, according to my observation found that the robot's press release, currently limited to the "general release" stage, that is, by the unified standard model of news content, and artificial intelligence is included in the machine learning, with the" learning" function, some of the garbage, but also the "cheap labor" and no technical content. With the "learning" function, it's entirely possible that some trashy web editors will be replaced.
Artificial customer service. In fact, artificial customer service has always been the representative of the "low quality", the United States, many artificial customer service is outsourced to the Indian outsourcing company to do, artificial customer service is the essence of the user to solve a variety of problems in fact, as long as the technology in the voice recognition, the problem library and other aspects of the technology is complete after. The machine is entirely possible to screen these questions so as to automatically reply, the value of artificial is close to nothing (may be certain female customer service voice is very good, this to imitate is not easy).
When it comes to the question of real replacement, it's really a question of cost, whether it's human, or artificial intelligence, for the company, which can bring lower costs, of course, which is willing to use, in terms of commercialization, AI still has a very long way to go. And, technology-wise, it's not that mature at the moment yet.