Yep. I work in prosthetics, people tend to overestimate current battery technology and underestimate how much energy it takes to move around a couple hundred pounds.

Even with batteries that cost a small fortune, we haven't been able to create a lower limb powered prosthetic that can keep up with the human body for more than a couple hours.

There's a lot of hype about the humanoid robotics coming out of China, but most everything is just marketing science fiction. Once you factor in the initial cost, power consumption for processing data, multiple batteries per unit, and the massive amount of general maintenance...... It becomes pretty apparent that things aren't going to pan out anytime soon.

I build limbs out of reinforced carbon fiber and titanium and even those acquire a ton of wear in a relatively small amount of time. Any bipedal robot with plastic parts, made to do intensive labour is going to start falling apart almost immediately. The human body takes a ton of damage throughout the day as well, but it's self repairing.

I remember reading a presser about how this cloud vendor was using robots for all kinds of tasks in their datacentre and it was super efficient because automation. But it never actually happened. They still have humans racking servers. The last 10% is hard.

Have you tried firing all the nurses and just not giving anyone healthcare?

No, what will happen instead is they'll get rid of half of the nurses and the ones they keep will be responsible for 16 million things. My agency is going through it right now. They fired one of our APNs and gave all her duties to our other one. She's already overwhelmed to the point of crying in the office.

Yeah; and insurance companies and healthcare orgs in the US are trying to sub out actual human healthcare providers with “specialist agents”, because PROFIT ÜBER ALLES.

But also, that sounds absolutely ripe for a massive fucking class action lawsuit.

I think the plan is to replace nurses with just letting people die instead.

"It" is very ill defined. The AI they are selling you was never supposed to cure cancer. It was meant to make money. The AI which cures cancers is of a completely different kind than LLMs and media generation. And it does not have any of the same drawbacks nor any of the same funding despite it's far greater usefulness.

I'd be fine with that, as long as there was some academic aspect involved.

A bunch of idiots doing nothing for a long time isn't going to accomplish much of anything.

If only the construction trades could develop some kind organization to protect members from race to the bottom wages and also promote training that improves work quality.

it will not be made by LLMs, because it's upmost important buildings are built exactly to spec. You will want a proper list of instructions for the machine, not something a model comes up with on the fly.

That's just the shell. Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, cabinets, roof--the rest is still built by hand and no, robots can't do it.

Also, 3D printed buildings are failing, and very few have been built, they're just experimental. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRLqld_jD_g

Maybe eventually, but I doubt we'll see a house built entirely by machines from the bare ground, with the sewer and water system, electrical grid, roads, sidewalks street lights, etc. installed, to hand-over-the-key ready in our lifetimes.

I think many people imagine this is just around the corner is because they don't have a clue what goes into such a project.

They also don't have a track record to speak of yet.

They have issues as well. https://hackaday.com/2023/11/29/iowa-demolishes-its-first-3d-printed-house/

And I'm sure AI will be able to do all the wiring and plumbing and decorating /s

I've seen some AI designed STLS. They are..not good

The robots still can't.

And while the amount of automation is forever increasing, there's still certain tasks that are extremely difficult to automate. The problem is, those difficult to automate processes are often hilariously easy for humans to do. Robots are great at doing the exact same thing over and over, but throw any variability into the mix, and it's very difficult to make them able to adapt to it.

Tell me you’ve never worked construction w/o telling me.