Its called "killing the entire middle class" and its way more profitable that all that stuff you mentioned.

The same reason that self-driving cars don't work very well. Shut us way more complicated than people realize because they do it all the time and don't think about the nuances.

I think it's time we all accept that a terrifying amount of people have no perception of accurate reality

Because those jobs actually involve thinking and problem solving, which AI cannot do.

This week's Tom Scott episode on Nebula* is interesting on this subject.

Long story short: folk from a university in Essex are working on creating a robot that can pick strawberries, but it (obviously) turns out that it's waaaay more complex than people think. There are untold different variables that humans just work around without having to think about them, like whether there are fruit inside the plant, obscured from view. A robot has to be programmed to be able to figure shit like that out.

Sure, it could easily run along the line just grabbing everything, but the plants in enormous growhouses can yield fruit for six months a year, so they need to be treated carefully. _ *it'll be on YouTube next week

Because we don’t have AI. We have algorithms putting words after another or pixels next to each other.

Better question is why we don’t use robots with specific algorithms to do those kinds of tasks.

We could if we wanted to. Not necessarily right now, but we’re pretty damn close. If all the damn billions we pour into the data centers putting words and pixels into order went into robotics, we’d have a world where no one had to get their hands dirty or risk an injury at work.

That would also make billionaires billionaires. But that would not stomp the regular folk down, and that’s the catch.

If AI's primary function isn't curing cancer like they said it was going to do, then it should not be utilized.

For jobs like that, human life is cheaper than AI.

Are we still using pickaxes to mine??? We have Robots assisting with manual labor since the car. Modern factories rely on tons of neural networks and machine-vision. This is silly.

Well because robots need bodies

Because business is the most important thing in the world.

You cant build a stable civilization on the foundation of capitalism. All of us are on the same path, its just some are further down the road.

Today us, tomorrow you.

Because AI is built by billionaire fuck-o’s who can only think of problems in their direct vicinity and what do billionaire fuck-o’s hate the most… doing their jobs.

Thus AI writes emails, hires people, fires people, etc.

The idea that there are people picking up their trash, mowing their lawns, or putting their lives at risk to make said billionaire fuck-o more money, doesn’t even register to them.

Us “normal” folks only occur to them when we become a problem.

Because the 'menial' labor often has to be done right or something goes terribly wrong, it's art and poetry that AI can be allowed to fuck up without serious consequences.

Because LLMs, although marketed as a productivity increasing tool, are fundamentally investment vehicles. It's a lot easier to market LLMs that can beat the Turing test than physical robots which are really hard to manufacture and would require the development of thousands of new technologies.

Simple answer: Because we've written AIs that work in the digital world, and mines, oil fields, toxic chemicals, and ocean plastic all exist in the real world. If you build a robotic body or arm or some way to do what the people in those places are doing, the AI could control it and do the job.

This is the one potential upside with things like Tesla Optimus. With a sufficiently general purpose bipedal humanoid robot under AI control, that robot COULD work oil fields and mines and toxic chemicals and the like.

However I suspect the miners, oil workers, waste handlers, and ocean cleanup technicians would rather keep their jobs, hazardous or not.

Could be because of money, but most likely it's just that they never develop the thought because they do not give a fuck about the conditions of humans in slavery.

Because the right hates intellectuals. They hate us because we're more often on the side of the truth than their childish delusions. So they built a tool that promises it to them.

And now they want us broken, both in the mind and body, so they can amuse themselves with out suffering. Literally all the right wing media grifters who previously talked about how entertainment must be gatekept from women and minorities are celebrating that "art is no longer gatekept".

But still, all they can get is slop with the AI. Don't fool yourself with any of the game projects, or even that Windows XP music video that got popular with the Bluesky developers, it's still unable to create anything meaningful, or worthy to be remembered.

They're too busy making CSAM for the rich pedos.

Laissez le bon temps rouler

I enjoy working in the mines

Have you seen the modern John Deere farming systems? It's likely going to go from the Interstellar intro to the plot of Ghost In the Shell 3. As in Fully automated farming; of that's vulnerable to getting hacked and becoming disease ridden.

I don't have against vegans, but I think it's important to have diversity since disasters have happened in the past. Like it or not, but animals are insurance against disasters that can happen to plants. Why do you think corn and soybeans have been modified so much?

There is no amount of watering plants in this current drought that will let me grow anything, everything I planted this year is dead. I have to adapt and create shaded and sealed greenhouse tents and then that's not covering potential flooding from rain as we've seen this year.

I'm just guessing, but I don't think it's too far away of having completely automated systems run farms. And I hate to say it but maybe it might be for the best in this situation seeing as I basically got sick from eating someone's shit on lettuce.

Because it takes actual engineering skill to make a robot that can (say) mine for minerals without destroying itself or the things it is looking for. Also because subjugation of people seems to be a fetish for some of these people. For example, sugarcane growers refused automation for years despite the high incidence of serious injuries for cane cutters who used machetes to cut the cane.

Maybe once they can properly run and stop running, and do more than just that one round about kick, then they can be sent off to the mines.

Purely information based tasks have mountains of training material. Physical world interactions, less so and harder to instrument.

Driving is one of the more favorable scenarios, vision and hearing are the only sensory inputs and the only operation is a wheel and two pedals. Easy to instrument and passively capture millions and millions of miles worth of human driving to imitate.

But in other tasks, people are largely not instrumented.. Meta hopes everyone will wear their AI glasses which could boost passive data capture, but even then they are not capturing sense of touch and human dexterity. Some are paying people to try to tele operate machines, but that frequently goes embarrassingly badly because it is really hard for a person to navigate things without touch.

If you put on mittens and a task becomes impossible, well you still have way more to work with than the models can access training data for.

Robots are working in the mines, oil fields, and handling toxic chemicals. There are at lest plans to get them to remove plastic from the ocean.

They aren't humanoid robots. The "robots" in chemical plants are made of pipes and sensors and valves. The ones in mines have wheels and picks and conveyor belts.

The only jobs left are the ones they haven't figured out how to automate: the people who supervise, oversee and give orders to the "robots".

I would think the reason that those final few jobs performed by humans in chemical plants haven't yet been eliminated is obvious. If an LLM customer service bot "goes rogue" the worst it can do is tell someone that they are entitled to a discount that doesn't actually exist. An LLM "supervisor" for a chemical plant might actually be worse at the job than Homer Simpson.

I don't ask AI to do my poetry or art.

Why do you do it? It's not making your art and poetry by itself.

You know the idea guy, who doesn't want to do the actual work? But takes full credit when it's done? AI is that guy's best friend.