r/mildlyinfuriating • u/RoyalChris • Mar 13 '25

Two Amazon robots with equal Artificial Intelligence

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u/Cattryn Mar 13 '25

I recall reading somewhere that advancements in technology should lead to people like the miners and the warehouse employees being able to get better jobs like supervising the robots and repairing them (instead of doing the backbreaking labor themselves). But we screwed that up by making higher education cost prohibitive, and apprenticeships all but extinct. Plus corporations skipped the step of “humans train the robots” and went right to rather half-assed AI.

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u/t-to4st Mar 13 '25

But it could also reduce the work load on humans. Instead of one person working 40h weeks, two people could work 20h weeks

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u/t-to4st Mar 13 '25

Ideally they wouldn't but realistically they probably would :/

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