This topic is an extension of my post about AI and detailing I did on December of 2024. You can find it in the list of topics within this sub-forum.
What prompts this post is there is now a start-up company that is gathering videos from human individuals doing "mundane manual tasks" and then using that video information (data) to program AI robots to mimic and duplicate those mundane or repetitive motions to "program" or train these AI learning-assisted robots to do those tasks.
This prompts the question if some enterprising detailer will "sell"(I would prefer to use the term "prostitute", but that just has such a bad connotation and inference, so I will not use it!! Righhhhht, Captain Obvious!) a video of themselves of their detailing a vehicle to this company for the purpose of creating a detailing AI robot. This videoing, apparently, is the new "gig job" and those who have been supplanted (IE, replaced) by AI in their tech and customer service jobs are doing this well-paid service as a way to financially survive. (Hey, if I have done down, so are the rest of you who think you are protected from AI job lose!).
1) Will it happen that mundane human-done jobs, like detailing, will be replaced by robots? Sounds much more short-term realistic than long-term science fiction now.
2) Am I concerned about it? MAYBE if I had a job as a detailer at a car dealer or worked at a car wash or body shop business.
3) Would I use such a service if it became available? Depends on the cost of such a service. If a human-done detailing service charges $500 to detail my vehicle versus a robot-controlled detailing service cost $250, yes, then I MIGHT consider it. Economics (IE; money) always seems to be THE most-important underlying factor in one's decision to use and buy a service.
4) What if these robots become as cost-effective and financially affordable as, say, a used car. Would you buy or lease one?
Not me! I have seen the movie "I, Robot" too many times to let Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence or VIKI-controlled programming into my house or person. Besides, today's Learning-AI or Super Artificial Intelligence (SAI) has already broken Isaac Asimov's (fictitious) "Three Laws of Robotics" used in the above-mentioned movie. If you Google those Three Laws, you will understand why I put "fictitious" in brackets. Learning AI/SAI does NOT adhere to human-controlled programming "laws or limits". Kind of like owning a black vehicle and detailing it constantly attempting to keep it looking concourse-perfect: Does the vehicle own you OR do you own the vehicle? But I digress......quit laughing, although some of you can relate to the black vehicle but not the movie reference!...
What do you Autopians think about this?
What prompts this post is there is now a start-up company that is gathering videos from human individuals doing "mundane manual tasks" and then using that video information (data) to program AI robots to mimic and duplicate those mundane or repetitive motions to "program" or train these AI learning-assisted robots to do those tasks.
This prompts the question if some enterprising detailer will "sell"(I would prefer to use the term "prostitute", but that just has such a bad connotation and inference, so I will not use it!! Righhhhht, Captain Obvious!) a video of themselves of their detailing a vehicle to this company for the purpose of creating a detailing AI robot. This videoing, apparently, is the new "gig job" and those who have been supplanted (IE, replaced) by AI in their tech and customer service jobs are doing this well-paid service as a way to financially survive. (Hey, if I have done down, so are the rest of you who think you are protected from AI job lose!).
1) Will it happen that mundane human-done jobs, like detailing, will be replaced by robots? Sounds much more short-term realistic than long-term science fiction now.
2) Am I concerned about it? MAYBE if I had a job as a detailer at a car dealer or worked at a car wash or body shop business.
3) Would I use such a service if it became available? Depends on the cost of such a service. If a human-done detailing service charges $500 to detail my vehicle versus a robot-controlled detailing service cost $250, yes, then I MIGHT consider it. Economics (IE; money) always seems to be THE most-important underlying factor in one's decision to use and buy a service.
4) What if these robots become as cost-effective and financially affordable as, say, a used car. Would you buy or lease one?
Not me! I have seen the movie "I, Robot" too many times to let Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence or VIKI-controlled programming into my house or person. Besides, today's Learning-AI or Super Artificial Intelligence (SAI) has already broken Isaac Asimov's (fictitious) "Three Laws of Robotics" used in the above-mentioned movie. If you Google those Three Laws, you will understand why I put "fictitious" in brackets. Learning AI/SAI does NOT adhere to human-controlled programming "laws or limits". Kind of like owning a black vehicle and detailing it constantly attempting to keep it looking concourse-perfect: Does the vehicle own you OR do you own the vehicle? But I digress......quit laughing, although some of you can relate to the black vehicle but not the movie reference!...
What do you Autopians think about this?
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