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agonypants t1_jdw39m4 wrote

Office jobs generally don't require expensive or complex robots. Industrial jobs generally will. Right now, AI development has the momentum and as AI tech proves itself, interest will grow in using it to drive robots. Once robots can be produced cheaply, that's when the remaining jobs will begin to erode. The other key is "simple" production meaning robots that use as few parts as possible that are also easy to repair.

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mckirkus t1_jdw4ubt wrote

I think we'll see "design for manufacturing" evolve to assume AI will be part of the manufacturing process. Simply replacing humans with robots isn't where the big gains will come.

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SkyeandJett t1_jdwb3vi wrote

The "easy to repair" part probably isn't as crucial as you think since they'll likely maintain each other.

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Aurelius_Red t1_je0sc20 wrote

Yeah, but when is "when robots can be reproduced quickly"?

It's also a matter of powering them. At present, there's not enough lithium to scale at that breakneck pace. (I mean, maybe there is, but we can't mine it that quickly.) We'd have to invent another kind of battery, I'd imagine.

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agonypants t1_je0w8uo wrote

>we can't mine it (lithium) that quickly

Robotic lithium miners!

>We'd have to invent another kind of battery

Robotic materials research!

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Aurelius_Red t1_je154hy wrote

Not to be an ignorant dumb-dumb, but how'd you add your AGI prediction to your Reddit handle?

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agonypants t1_je1p8p5 wrote

Should be under the "User Flair Preview" on the right side of your Reddit page. The pencil icon lets you edit the "flair."

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