@theghostoftom
Where I work we have robotics, auto detection, massive automation. Know what it does about once ever 10 minutes? Something wrong. Product ramming into product, forcing its way against safety cages if you aren't fast enough. Misaligned product being systematicly destroyed. Sure, fire that expert buddy. Tech bros, never met a problem they couldn't make worse.
@supereliptic
You cannot replace reasoning skills, or experience or a personal touch in one’s work. You also cannot have a real business in the sense that we understand it if you are replacing your staff with AI. I think much of AI is hype and pipe dreams of investors, and others who fail to see that AI is just a tool, like a modern compiler or development environment is a tool. It’s not going to replace the programmers.
@JonathanRose24
AI will not replace a software engineer. Not directly at least. AI, at best, will make your engineerings more productive. With that increased productivity, maybe a business chooses to higher fewer engineers, or more likely, they just produce more and faster. AI at worse will actually slow down engineers as they waste time reprompting over and over again rather than just doing it themselves
@ariesmarsexpress
We are nowhere near replacing a $200k engineer with AI, but that one engineer will now have the productivity of 10. The point being it still needs the human attached to it to have value. I guess you could not hire the next 9, but why would you do that because your company is now competing on a different level.
@JonathanWillis
Yet frequently these AI solutions keep using libraries or functions that don't exist. Then when you get some complex code that isn't working, but is business critical you end up sending in the engineers to understand the code. And that code wasn't written to be readable, but functional. I think AI is great, but it has it's risks.
@howardbonds5106
if you replace everyone...then no one has money to buy things...i say go for it! Bring on the end!
@kutsy3785
You may replace all design, office and programming related jobs with AI. On the other hand, engineers that work hands on, installing, maintaining, troubleshooting and rectifying systems will take hundreds of years to replace. Robotics with AI will come soon but will be limited to the things they were trained on. Just as one example, things such as having to work with hands by feel without seeing the part youre working on is extremely simple for humans but currently impossible for robots without prior knowledge of tools, dimensions or parts.prior to task being carried out. And thats just random example from the top of my head. Imagine giving a robot a spanner telling it to undo a part and the robot cant get access to see behind a panel where its bolted. Not only it would have to reason to feel behind the panel but also asses the rists of putting the arm in the first place. Secondly to process what is there by feel is another huge hurdle in sensory development as it would have to compete with biological fingers. And lastly, it would have to evaluate available space for the tool use and limitations at which the tool has to be used. And all of this enacted in the physical world where environments might be oily, sticky, with parts being brittle, corroded, welded, etc.
@CodeDog451
Lol let me know how that works out for you
@erenpawe
There is no Wikipedia page for Jeevan's paradox.
@MoodMusic84
Then less people will have jobs and the rich will get richer
@Omega-Nine