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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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"What, you guys don't have robots?"
- Related "rich elite man" after replacing all of his human workers for robots
In all seriousness tho -- robots require energy (and lots of it) in order to work efficiently. While "any ordinary human" has to pay for his own expenses. Which means, robots will be (best case scenario) a "gimmick" for a selected few and no way a popular thing, in a way that will make all humans irrelevant for ANY kind of job.
tl;dr: It's okay, robots won't take over the world.
So do humans. It's called food. Braindead criticism honestly.
Robots are already a veeeeeeery popular thing. Look at any car factory.
There won't be much difference between those and general purpose AI robots, except that the general purpose ones will be WAY more capable and profitable.
Humans will always have jobs, but that doesn't mean the trend of automation and advances replacing jobs won't continue, and maybe accelerate too.
In the early 2000's there was a documentary on Hyundai's fully automated factory. Required 3 full time workers, all of them maintenance. Every system had redundancies, to prevent the line from shutting down. Parts were delivered by truck (on special trailers that coupled to specific docks that automatically supplied the assembly line) or were made on site. It took 16 hours to fully assemble a car from start to finish and once the assembly line was full, a new car rolled off the line every 24 minutes.
It was something incredible to watch, as the factory was a closed ecosystem. Cameras filmed from behind observation windows used to monitor the activity. Even if an assembly robot was to break, the line would halt, the faulty machine was rolled out automatically through a maintenance line/door and the spare would role in, in a matter of seconds.
It was sci-fi material.