Your skills are irreplaceable, and your body is expendable . Work harder !
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inb4 construction Robots
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Honestly we'll probably get there eventually. There are already AIs capable of making video game footage look realistic, and we can simulate physics in game engines with some degree of accuracy.
There will likely come a point when researchers are able to simulate the physics and graphics accurately enough that they'll be able to train AIs in these simulations and have them work in real life.
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I take it you haven't seen the recent advancements in both robotics and LLM powered agents
If it’s LLM and robotics it better get used to having dick in it
holy fuck thanks for the laugh
I didn’t, mind providing links?
Yep. AutoGen + MemGPT (+Locally hosted models) https://youtu.be/VJ6bK81meu8?si=mGnvMTJsLn_vMvRb
Basically, a small company of self-refining LLM prompts that output meaningful results + a robust memory management for more long-term back and forths. Instead of "one input, one output. Next"
Another example: https://youtu.be/5Zj_zstLLP4?si=nHu4vHwidRmvuViY
I can share more examples and papers if desired.
On the robotics front, the focus is still on training custom models for given actions. Which is having some success: https://youtu.be/Jy3zjXK4ao4?si=yFdqnl8z9Z8Becsc
https://youtu.be/WlIYa3lH5UI?si=FQSZAm44h3FuuCoR
I'm convinced these "hivemind agents" will pass custom model training soon
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Just wait until someone connect chatgpt to one of those gigantic 3d printers that print buildings.
Are we really that far from having “AI” do this?
You can't 3D print laying all the pipe and the electric cabling and adding fixtures and insulation and all sorts of other things homes need.
You can 3D print the basic structure. That's it. You're saving on bricklaying or carpentry.
And the second that it is economically viable the companies will be dumping their bricklayers/carpenters down the drain and replacing them with computer controlled construction methods.
When will it be economically viable to dump all the people who have to set up the equipment and all of the people who have to do everything but make the basic structure? Is this 'house set up and entirely built by robots down to the light fixtures with no human intervention' a near future proposition?
When was it economically viable to replace hand-sewn lumber with lumber mills?
Then they went and made portable electric saws. What a world!
And then electric drills! And laser levels!
Remember paper ledgers and abacuses? Ever hear of Microsoft Excel?
We keep making tools that always increase productivity and reduce time and cost. It’s Constant incremental progress, and on a large scale it’s great because it frees up (human) resources to focus on new industry and technology, which furthers the CIP. On the micro scale, there may be a small number of temporarily displaced workers as jobs shuffle around and workers re-skill.
But at this particular intersection of technology, we are at a pretty bad spot. We are on the verge of massive progress in multiple industries, and wealth has concentrated in the elite classes. “Temporarily displaced workers” won’t have the capital to re-skill or invest their own resources into new industry. This is bad.
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Still need someone to build it for the computer. What would really help the "AI" is to have something that can handle the creation of different interfaces and modules. Then, it would need to solve or mitigate the maintenance conundrum of repairing itself when it breaks.
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I think there were already projects of this with ChatGPT
I was gonna say Netherlands as that's the kind of shit I expect from Dutch architects, but upon further inspection, Germany?
Austria, Museum of Modern Art in Vienna. I have no information about the substances or medications the architect has taken.
Well, meanwhile in Canada....
Looks like a normal day in Australia to me...
Lmao they are 3D printing houses right now. We're all jobless in the future, bud. Thats a good thing.
Have you seen a 3D printed house? They look like shit with their lumpy walls, and you still have to run all the plumbing power, and ventilation.
Yeah, technology will never continue to develop!
Nobody is saying that but reading a headline that says "Construction company prints some walls!" and then saying "welp that's it they're out here just 3D printing whole ass buildings" is pretty uh... Dumb.
And the picture says "your skills are irreplaceable." If you truly believe that basic construction is irreplaceable then I have bad news for you.
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No they aren't :/ They can make bricks and 'print' walls, which is really just a cool way of pouring concrete. Hardly printing a house.
He thinks it's a good thing
He thinks we get universal welfare.
I think we get a bigger wealth gap and huge poverty.
Once the elites have everything they need or want provided by AI and machines, we get death.
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Ahhh yes. In capitalism, if you create a machine that can replace say, 10 people, you don't give them 1/10 of the work. You fire them and maybe hire someone to operate it.
Machines and human workers can coexist. They don't have to replace them.
Edit: Of course they should replace them, but only after we get good living conditions for unemployed people, which are currently non-existent.
Yeah, we arent going to get our Jetsons future if we refuse to restructure our society towards not having to work instead of just fighting the tech because its taking our jobs away
They should replace them. What really needs undoing is this imbecilic idea that only workers deserve to live comfortably.
They should replace workers and people should deserve to live without being workers, but it should also be painfully obvious that our current economic system won't support this idea, and won't until we do some pretty drastic things.
It's not that we couldn't build a post-scarcity society probably even right now given some pretty radical adjustment of resource allocations, we just don't want to build one – "we" being the 0.01% that have such insane amounts of wealth that they've essentially taken over the whole economic system, largely thanks to eg. dumb fucks like Reagan and sociopathic fucks like Thatcher and the people who idolize them buying into the idea that they too can be that rich because the wealth will somehow magically trickle down.
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I know this probably wasn't op who did this, but I have to ask: who the hell puts a watermark on a meme?
Quite a few well known memers, not the peseants though
I don't even understand the benefit of it. It's not like memeing is a job where you have to protect your intellectual property. Why even do it? Do they think so highly of themselves that they need to "protect" memes that they create? They're randos on the Internet adding captions to images, not V/A professionals...
It also goes against the longstanding spirit of Internet memes, that they are things to by definition be shared, not intellectual property to be bound.
They want to drive traffic to their pages so they can make ad and sponsor money
Assholes.
Wait til you see the head nodders and finger pointers on videos.
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Ironically you could use a Stable Diffusion AI plugin to remove the watermark in GIMP.
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This is such a boomer meme
Yep, there will always be room for humans in the suffering industry.
We can 3D print buildings so we're almost there.
Sort of... we can 3D print walls out of specific concrete blends that run nicely through an extended hose system that runs from the mud pump to the print nozzle. But, concrete has a limited time as mud before it starts to harden, so you can only print for so many hours before you have to stop and flush out the pump and hoses before it turns into rock, and the concrete mix can't be too chunky (like including gravel) to flow through the system.
Also, if you get all that right, then you can print walls... but not structural frames that would support a multistory building, or plumbing or electrical wiring or insulation or windows or roofs...
We're a long way from 3D printing a building wholesale.
Inb4 Boston Dynamics rolls out the self-building building.
Ai made this to pretend it's an idiot political nut.
Fuck bro imma be real pissed when robots start doing MY manual labor
Within my lifetime we will see a significant chunk of building site labour be replaced by robots.
Let's not forget this isn't unprecedented - plenty of jobs went away with we introduced the last big technological innovation, heavy machinery, to the building site. Suddenly one guy in a JCB can do the work of 20 guys with spades, etc.
I'm not talking about replacing everyone, not within my lifetime, that's likely silly unless there's a technological leap we can't yet predict.
But the simpler the labour, the more likely it'll go, and not every site job is specialised enough that it can't be replaced by a well trained, well developed AI system in the year 2050 built into a similarly well developed body -which exist today, are already dropping in price due to refinements and ramping up production, and by then will be as competitively priced as the cost of a human.
This is a good thing though, capitalist politics aside. The more jobs we can replace, especially hard on the body, unhealthy, often very dangerous jobs like construction, the better. Assuming we can evolve society away from our capitalist overlords and into a society that works for the people.
Anyhoo, I wouldn't rush to retrain in another sector just yet if you're a brickie, but if you're just getting in to the biz, keep your options open for sure.
If you're a lorry driver and you're young? Spend some of your spare time retraining for a new career now, because while lorry drivers will still be needed in 30 years time before you're set to retire, the vast majority of the work will be automated, and driver jobs will be extremely scarce compared to the large number of workers trying to get them.
Like the coal miners of yesteryear, you don't want to wait until it's far too late to retrain and then complain that your career is ruined. Prepare now.
Best case scenario? Your main job never goes away, but now your skill set is diversified and you've always got options. Worst case? Your main job does, and you luckily can fall back on your alternative options.
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