. >> bill of the university of wisconsin, maddison. thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much >>> robots replaced thousands of workers from machines that can learn to fold to machines that make decisions. they are poised to replace thousands more. what it means to you in a minute. this is "inside story". >>> welcome back to "inside story" on al jazeera america. artificial intelligence this time on the programme. the first time i saw a robot working on an autoassembly line was in the 1980s, there were certain parts of a job putting a car together they could do quickly and decisively. today the plant would have a lot more robots doing more things and few people. there were plenty of jobs we were told that would never be replaced by a smart machine, because there was parts of decision making too subtle for the yes, no stop go binary world. maybe not. martin joins me author of "rise of the robots", as you heard, bill hibbert in the last segment talked about how we first thought mundane tasks would be replaced by machines now higher or