Anonymous
11/12/2025, 3:31:02 PM
No.546260192
>>546258802
Robotics will never replace service jobs in the same way that AI replaces office jobs, because the robots even if they get good enough will simply be too expensive. Also, AI is good at rote compliance but very poor at problem solving.
Will robots replace warehouse workers like at Amazon shipping centers? Maybe, yeah. All the package needs to do is get from A to B, its basically an automatic process anyway that just needs humans to figure out what goes where, so its a sorting and transport problem.
Will robots be able to work as electricians and plumbers? Not with this generation of AI technology. Every electrical installation and diagnosis is different, a unique problem with unique factors and information that needs to be guessed at and inferred because its not directly visible in front of you. This is the exact sort of situation that modern "AI" cannot handle even remotely, because it sucks at associations and logical inferences. A lot of problems in the real world start with incomplete information and having to figure out what is even going on in the first place before you can tackle the issue of solving the problem itself, and AI can't do that because once you get beyond the contents of 'google the question' it sputters out.
To put it another way: the AI can tell you to shut of the water main before you start plumbing. But if you ask it to do so, it has no idea where to find the water main in your house and has a 50/50 chance of just SAYING it did so without actually attempting the task because there is no connection between its data model and physical reality.
Robotics will never replace service jobs in the same way that AI replaces office jobs, because the robots even if they get good enough will simply be too expensive. Also, AI is good at rote compliance but very poor at problem solving.
Will robots replace warehouse workers like at Amazon shipping centers? Maybe, yeah. All the package needs to do is get from A to B, its basically an automatic process anyway that just needs humans to figure out what goes where, so its a sorting and transport problem.
Will robots be able to work as electricians and plumbers? Not with this generation of AI technology. Every electrical installation and diagnosis is different, a unique problem with unique factors and information that needs to be guessed at and inferred because its not directly visible in front of you. This is the exact sort of situation that modern "AI" cannot handle even remotely, because it sucks at associations and logical inferences. A lot of problems in the real world start with incomplete information and having to figure out what is even going on in the first place before you can tackle the issue of solving the problem itself, and AI can't do that because once you get beyond the contents of 'google the question' it sputters out.
To put it another way: the AI can tell you to shut of the water main before you start plumbing. But if you ask it to do so, it has no idea where to find the water main in your house and has a 50/50 chance of just SAYING it did so without actually attempting the task because there is no connection between its data model and physical reality.