• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    11 year ago

    Then instead of a warehouse full of people, Amazon will end up with a warehouse full of robots, and a few robot babysitters.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Best case, yes exactly. But again, that’s happened before many times though (once upon a time, there was no conveyor belts or cranes in a warehouse either, there was guys doing that work) so I’m not too worried. Worst case it just fails.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        11 year ago

        The difference is that conveyor belts weren’t poised to impact 80% of all jobs on the planet, AI is.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Okay, modern agriculture then. Before industrialisation, 98% of people worked in agriculture as basically peasants. Now it’s pretty much exactly the opposite, with 2% working in something related.

          I agree AI could be a major problem if it gets even a little bit better. This specific story isn’t an example though.