If a human is required, how do you replace them with an AI? What training data do you train the thing on once the world changes and there's no easily available data on how to handle it left?

Maybe its with hubris, but i dont think anthros-in-overalls jobs are economically automatable, even if God parted the clouds and delivered AGI unto the world tomorrow. On the simple basis that an AI & its robot bodies requires a massive industrialized supply chain of expensive, constant inputs, while human labor can be reproduced by fucking & the most "essential" jobs are done at poverty wages already. I dont think the business margins can hold such a wonderful proposition

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

They are trying really hard to get robotic arms and cameras to do our jobs at the factory.

And it just doesn't work. The parts are too variable, the robots are too finicky, and a human operator can quickly troubleshoot problems that a robot just completely freezes up on. Human operated machines always outperform, and in the end they add human operators back into their "automated" process to babysit the machine and do quality control on the parts it makes.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 9 points 18 hours ago

in the end they add human operators back into their "automated" process to babysit the machine and do quality control on the parts it makes.

putting the human in the part of the job that humans are objectively bad at. pay close attention, every 1 in 1000 times something bad is going to happen and you'd better catch it! same reason self driving that requires driver intervention is worse than nothing

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 4 points 17 hours ago

Exactly what i mean, and im not sure the prophesized fully-automated economy will ever occur. The climate is collapsing under from under us, and drone factory supply chains & datacenters are supposed to keep chugging along under the coming blackouts?

I've worked manual labor all my life for sustinence wages, and will continue to do so until my body gives out and i retire to a ditch. There is no possible enshittified robot leased from a tech company that can possibly do my job cheaper, because i repair myself with potatos and troubleshoot myself with homegrown drugs.