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[–] PacketPilgrim@thelemmy.club 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

As AI improves it will program hand like robotics or tool attachments to be able to do this work. This is in the pipeline. They already have workers in China, Indonesia, Vietnam and others wearing cams to capture what they do with their hands so it can be consumed and replicated by AI. It's only a matter of time. Then there is the replication of an issue we already had. Everyone is going into trades now same as everyone went into colleges before. Long term it will lead to surplus workers in that given field. Best thing to do is be agile and willing to learn and adapt as things shift. Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/

[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In the 1950s, Isaac Asimov predicted that eventually, nearly everything on Earth would be automated, leading to mass unemployment. He then predicted that the "excess population" would move to other star systems, which served 3 purposes: reducing unemployment on earth, providing a meaningful existence for the extrasolar colonists, and spreading humanity throughout the galaxy.

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[–] HairEater@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 weeks ago

The funny thing is it can't do white collar jobs either.

[–] JollyG@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

The construction industry is one of the most heavily automated and mechanized industries in existence. We just don't think about things like "back hoe", "crane", "nail gun" or "concrete plant" as forms of automation because they have been around for so long, but they have all replaced more manual aspects of construction processes.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

By the time AI is capable of finishing buildings it will choose to eradicate us instead.

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