• magnetosphere
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    11410 months ago

    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.

    • Dieguito 🦝
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      -210 months ago

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

      • Deme
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        2910 months ago

        Robots cost money. Sweatshop slaves work for food.

        • @NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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          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.

          • Aviandelight
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            1910 months 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.

          • @sveri@lemmy.sveri.de
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            310 months 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.

          • magnetosphere
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            310 months 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.

      • TwoGems
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        1710 months ago

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