I mean what did you expect? Writing and art can be done entirely in software. Manual labor needs robotics, which needs to be AI-powered for adaptability anyway.
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Actually, nobody is doing the physical labor so that the company can present itself as low cost for future investors.
I really don't understand how people thought that AI was going to be able to do physical labor for them. Robotics can do some level of physical labor however most physical labor still requires a human being as we are years and decades away from any sort of robotic entity with any sort of llm or AI or whatever intelligence or even just a basic programming script being able to perform most jobs. My job myself will never be replaced in my lifetime I probably have another 15 to 20 years of doing what I'm doing right now and I can pretty much guarantee that there will not be any sort of advancement in labor by robotics or AI that could complete the job that I do.
The other thing is solving on-the-job issues that crop up like the previous plumber not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground, and now you need to figure out how to deal with their cursed contraption. Good luck little robot! Hope you figure it out in such a way that the homeowner doesn't sue your AI startup into buying them a full house Reno, or the value of the house pre-poonado.
I'm also in the same boat as you. My job is in the field and is already heavily automated but that's not doing a damn thing for replacing me. The hard part is understanding a multivariate system and it's safety critical. Humans can manage it but AI can't yet, and probably never fully will.
They're not judging anything, they're visualizing a future where their needs are met based on trends in tech. They just forgot we live in a world where the rich's needs are met instead.
Turns out the physical tasks that hadn't been automated by 2015 were really hard and generally risky if you get them wrong. The risks of generating slop are minimal.
Folding laundry is a task that has stumped robots since 1990.
Look at google’s last robots, they have them tying plastic bags and screwing light bulbs.
I think a lot of those robots are very expensive and liable to break the bones of onlookers when they go wrong...
I don’t think they’re for sale, more of a research thing right now, but the point is that the technology is there, it just hasn’t reached the market yet.
As for being liable to break the bones of onlookers… This is always the argument that comes up for some reason, same as self-driving cars. In reality, I’ve known my fair share of humans who are liable to break the bones of onlookers when things go wrong too.
Yes, those things will make it eventually too, I don't mean to imply they won't. Just emphasising that we can see the difficulty of the task still in those current efforts.
They also get pretty banged up from working in real life situations like factories so they're expected to not be that cheap with replacement parts.