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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

One of the jobs AI is going to replace

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

They already make machines to do repetitive pipetting, it's just that humans are cheaper and more widely usable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Our lab's auto pipetter is broken about 60% of the time, most days we just shut it off and reroute specimens to the workbenches to do it by hand because it's faster than attempting to fix it or call customer service. Maybe once the good-for-nothing customer service repair phone line is replaced by AI it will actually function and be worth the half a million dollars we spent on this stupid machine, lol

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