You mean my meat proxy skills while wearing a Ratatouille machine-vision head camera that tells me what wrench to pick up and how to crimp the Pex rings?
replyYou're telling me Google Gemini robot 2 tying a trash bag isn't also gonna be able to crimp PEX rings?
replyThe solution is probably a trash bag with a mini forklift compatible lift rings, an optical center mark, a ratcheting closure, and make a raspberry PI do the computing millions of dollars of tooling to make a robot compatible trash bag but it might be worth it, deploy the bean counters!
replyIt will. But having watched the video, I can tie one faster and cheaper. This week. Next week, who knows?
replyActually had a plumber here earlier today which was an ordeal so have been asking that myself too...
replyPlumbing is kind of a hard job, definitely not fun for anyone above middle age. And given it will pay minimum wage, I think I'd just take a life of leisure instead.
replyMinimum wage? Where I live, the plumber median wage is pretty much exactly the national median.
replySure, but that is today. When AI decimates the knowledge fields, a whole lot of people are going to be looking at different career options. There will not be any shortage of people hoping to make money in the trades, and with that surge in supply will come a collapse in prices.
replyAh, then I understand you. But please, let's stop with this inevitability. If AI decimates, not when.
replyApologies, I'm with you. I was speaking to the hypothetical, not trying to suggest it is inevitable. I think it is uncertain how this plays out, but I am an optimist and I think it ends up a net positive.
replyWhy would it not? The economic incentives make it inevitable. Might as well expect water to not flow downhill.
replyIt is very plausible that LLMs never get to 100% replacement for knowledge workers and the winners will the people who use both, leaving behind the people who thought all they needed to do was cut costs by doing existing workloads without humans. It remains to be seen if the constraint on quantity of knowledge work was the people or the work.
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