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1. zug_zug · 1790775034 · 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. DoctorDabadedoo · 1790775744 · focus · HN ↗

      As someone that works in robotics/automation, it pains me to see people in creative/office verticals getting all the shit with AI these days while hard labor positions, the one that everyone could be doing a bit less because they take a toll on you (working the fields, farms, hazardous tasks) remain pretty much the same.

      1. AnimalMuppet · 1790776467 · focus · HN ↗

         If you use a computer to do something, training an AI to use the computer to do the same thing just takes the computer, which was there anyway. (Yeah, plus training the model, that's not my point.) But if you do something physical, replacing you takes something physical to be there.

         We may eventually manufacture the robots to do all these things. We aren't there yet.

         1. fragmede · 1790778711 · focus · HN ↗

            How long do you give it?

            1. sceptic123 · 1790781559 · focus · HN ↗

               We're waiting for the point that replacing the humans is the cheaper option. Not sure that robot plumbers are in our near future.

               1. fragmede · 1790781649 · focus · HN ↗

                  What's your definition of "near future"? 3 months? 1 year? 5? 10? 50? 100?

                  1. layer8 · 1790790651 · focus · HN ↗

                     Not the other commenter, but we won’t have robot plumbers in 10 years. Maybe in 50.

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