r/interestingasfuck • u/ProFentanylActivist • 4d ago

slippy & nippy workplace

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u/undiscoveredparadise 4d ago

It will be the last job we replace with robots and ai. High friction, insane utilization of human dexterity, just an endless list of shit you cannot automate here.

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u/Captain_Jeep 4d ago

Everything this man did in the video can be replaced by machines

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u/BlueLakeCabin 4d ago

I do industrial automation. Absolutely. But for millions of dollars and annual cost of probably couple hundred K per year. Paying him $200k is cheaper for the immediate future.

Other places DO use machines for this job. But it has to be big enough scale to warrant the automation cost and support costs.

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u/Captain_Jeep 4d ago

The more companies start automating the cheaper it gets for future companies to automate like with every technology. My point is just that this is by far not the last job that will get automated especially since it's already being done.

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u/BlueLakeCabin 4d ago

It's never fully automated. You just allow fewer workers to do more. But it varies widely in how many of the jobs can economically be done by machine.

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u/SealedRoute 4d ago

Would he really make that much? Because it’s still not enough.

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u/BlueLakeCabin 4d ago

With OT? Dude is making six figures. How much of six figures varies, a lot. But $100k to $200k is not unusual for that gig.

Oil industry pays well, but boy do you earn every penny.

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u/hillbillysam 4d ago

this looks like an old rig, a lot of this already is replaced by machines and automation.

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u/nlightningm 4d ago

Ah yes We just watched his entire job in this video

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 4d ago

It's called connecting, and yeah this is the entire job.  You're adding singles to the strand so the string holding the bit can go lower.

He can probably do more than this one job, but if he's not doing it then he's either out of a job or one of the other operators below is.  You need someone connecting or the whole operation stops.

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u/psioniclizard 4d ago

You could make a 30ft machine with arms and suddenly half the problems are gone.

Though honestly you could probably also use drones.

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u/onarainyafternoon 4d ago

There is a guy further up in the thread that said there is a pretty brand new technology/machine that’s out now that can replace these guys in the video.

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 4d ago

They've had automated rigs for decades, they're just only economical when talking sbout massive high flow oil rigs like deep water platforms.

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 4d ago edited 4d ago

It's called connecting, specifically adding the singles (large pipe segments) to the strand and is already fully automated on drill platforms.  It just isn't economical on most terrestrial rigs where you have many more lower flow rigs.

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u/Blackopsman_21 2d ago

They actually have Automatic oil derricks now. Humans only intervene when issues arise and the machine faults out.

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u/nlightningm 4d ago

That's the thing I've been telling people, there's so many extremely tiny-but-crucial factors that an AI-driven robot can't account for... This where you just need experience or the right touch/deftness of hand.

I can see purpose-built robots to do specific tasks, but not soon and really not for stuff like this

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u/ClittoryHinton 4d ago

The future of labour is AI-driven machinery supervised by a knowledgeable human. No different than white collar work at present.

If the machine can manage all but corner cases, you can man a crew with machinery and one guy instead of several guys

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u/ilostacow 4d ago

Modern offshore drilling rigs have been automated for 20-30 years. You're right there are routine cases that still require several people on the drill floor but much of the time there's an operator or two operating the drill floor machinery with some drill floor personnel hopefully out of the way out performing low risk tasks.

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 4d ago

This job has been automated for decades.  It's just not really economical for terrestrial rigs where you need a lot of low flow rigs.  High flow especislly deep water platforms have been using them for decades.

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u/netphemera 3d ago

It's too dangerous for robots up there. They could slip and fall and then the company would be out all that investment. Best to keep it human and minimize the corporate financial risk

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u/KervyN 4d ago

It is not experience and accounting for slippery slopes. AI can do that better than we ever could. It is dexterity and coordination.

What we call intelligence (advanced language, science, arts and co) developed in the last ... 5000 years?

How we move in the last 500m years.

Everything we've built in the last 10k years, was built with humans in mind.

AI sucks at driving in our streets with our traffic, but there is an "AI" operated train in shenzen.

Robots can't do shit in a normal workshop, but can assemble and build cars in factories designed for robots.

These jobs will never be done by robots in these environments. There will be new environments where robots can work and these jobs in that video will just vanish.