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The last time my family was replaced by technology

339 points · 641 comments · megalomanu

  1. zug_zug · · focus · HN ↗
    And my great great grandpa thought horses would lose all their jobs to cars. And they all did and it was never the same again.

    There’s no quick answers, but intuitively I think we all get that the % of jobs not doable by AI and robotics approaches 0 over time.

    1. ForHackernews · · focus · HN ↗
      Intuitively I think we all understand that the % of jobs not doable by steam and iron approaches 0 over time.
      1. bluefirebrand · · focus · HN ↗
        Give us a single example of a job that you believe can never be done by robots or AI.
        1. chasd00 · · focus · HN ↗
          reality tv star on something like real housewives. I think AI/robotics would have a hard time being that irrational and illogical consistently. That behavior is pretty unique to humans.
          1. robwayne · · focus · HN ↗
            I feel like Neuro-sama is essentially already that, but for the Twitch / YT crowd instead of television. It's trivial to train a model to maximize engagement (as one can see gestures broadly), so I'm sure if we can get robots looking nice and human, we'll have Futurama's All My Circuits in no time.

            Though I guess there was a token human on that show, so maybe you're right!

        2. ForHackernews · · focus · HN ↗
          Waiter at a fancy restaurant.
        3. fragmede · · focus · HN ↗
          The last job is going to be hairdresser, because billionaires have wives (not to assume all billionaires are men), and those wives will want a human to gossip to.
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