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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people responsible don’t care. They will be perfectly fine letting the rest of us die. They’ll only start giving a shit once cheap labor starts getting hard to come by.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Automation replaces manual works, AI replaces intellectual ones. No need for cheap labor in the short term.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You know what's in short supply right now? People who know how to automate stuff.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I am at risk of losing my own job since it can be quite easily replaced by AI. The original post was about people having to die, so I hope to be counted in that number.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wait I can get paid for that? Haha suckers my hourly rate is fucking steep.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We will automate that.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Robots cost money. Sweatshop slaves work for food.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Robots don't sleep. They don't get sick. They don't have federally mandates days off. They don't commit self delete via rooftop if you overwork them. If you can be replaced by something that can do your job at 10% the speed for 1% the total cost, you will be. Such is the way of capitalist automation.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I have never seen automation fully replace the need for human workers. You still need people to maintain the equipment. All automation does is increase the amount of output. And when you start running machines at capacity you find out real quick just how much maintenance they really need.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Robots do get sick, it's called needing maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Robots also do exactly what you tell them to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The kind of sophisticated AI and robotics that can replace a human is much further away than some people seem to realize. That kind of technology doesn’t even exist in a lab. It will be decades before anything approaching that level even exists, and decades more before it’s an affordable, practical, mass-produced option. Even huge corporations that have the budget to invest won’t have the opportunity for quite a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Half of what you say is true. But robots are expensive, in many cases way more expensive than child labours around the world. And while it's possible to have robots do grunt work, true AI is still far away, like several decades.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

AI learns from existing human work. Without innovation it will learn nothing of value.