Could a monkey do your job?

This story covers the infinite monkey theorem and two attempts to test it:

one is a set of computer programs typing randomly where if it gets a word or phrase right in a nine character sequence, it is checked off the list. Of the 5.5 trillion combinations of nine letters in Shakespeare, according to this article, they've got 5 trillion down but only one complete book. This, however, is nothing like the real test because that would involve randomly typing the entire sequence of his works without a mistake. The funny part is that the article claims that with a small grant they set some monkeys to typing about 14 years ago. They produced five type-written pages, mostly of the letter 's', not surprising given their fixation, and urinated on the keyboard.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8789894/Monkeys-at-typewriters-close-to-reproducing-Shakespeare.html

Parts of it, definitely. Mid-level worker for a department of a US state.

I envision when someone calls or emails our office to vent/bash/bait, any monkey's vocalizations would be just as good as my replies, given the sender really isn't seeking feedback that would explain or possibly change their attitudes...

Alvin G, WR wrote:

Parts of it, definitely. Mid-level worker for a department of a US state.

I envision when someone calls or emails our office to vent/bash/bait, any monkey's vocalizations would be just as good as my replies, given the sender really isn't seeking feedback that would explain or possibly change their attitudes...

Fundraiser here for a local non-profit. Yes, a talented New World Monkey could respond to these same kinds of calls.

You may recall the TV program BJ and the Bear and the bear was played by a monkey who was the relief driver of a tractor/trailer.

And an orangutans co-starred with Clint Eastwood, In several movies, ..Any Which Way But Loose. Name of Clyde.

Today I beat my monkey

26mi235 wrote:

Monkey, CEO wrote:

I underwrite commercial loans for a bank. If the old line is true that a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, I think it would take at least a couple of monkeys to do my job.

That is a mistaken version of the 'room full of monkeys theorem. It would take many orders of magnitude larger if both the number of monkeys and the number of years to produce a sonnet correctly. You would also need an appropriate mechanism to parse all of the 'attempts'.

As for the original question, I suppose that a monkey might do an 'epsilon' of my job, but I cannot think of anything that I do that a monkey could accomplish.

If you go to Wikipedia and look up the infinite monkey theorem, you find that in 2003 students at University of Plymouth put a keyboard in an enclosure with six macaques. They hit it with a stone, urinated and defecated on it, and typed the letter S a bunch of times. In one month not a single word.

Proves nothing, I just found it funny.

No, my job has way too much people interaction. However, a robot could easily do about 50%.

Absolutely.....

However, my job is to walk around in a caged environment and fling my own poo at onlookers. It's a civil service gig.

Charlie Stache wrote:

I think a monkey could do about 80-85% of my job. And I make $90k a year.

I once had a monkey. I once had a house too.

Yes.

A monkey could bang your wife for money.

Flagpole wrote:

No.

Here's Flagpole's ego getting in the way once again.

Good god I'm glad he's gone.

OCD_runner wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

No.

Here's Flagpole's ego getting in the way once again.

Good god I'm glad he's gone.

Same here. His humiliation on election night & Trump presidency will sting forever.

Oh yes, most definitely.

Charlie Stache wrote:

I think a monkey could do about 80-85% of my job. And I make $90k a year.

Monkeys could do my jobs. But it wouldn't be cost efficient. Savvy?