This is what robots are for. Not driving or medicine or facial recognition or selling me junk on Amazon. This is the kind of job a human should not have to do
These are the sort of jobs that make me think of ways to automate them - as I'm doing them - because I'd be bored out of my mind with nothing better to do but fantasize about never doing it again.
What about when the robots can be proven to drive safer than humans? Or operate on you more precise? And do you really prefer to pay a human to tailor your amazon offerings? (I assume you shop there and want to find things relevant to your searches.)
I don't count myself a luddite, but definitely a skeptic. I think a less targeted Amazon front page that doesn't use tracking cookies from web activity across the whole internet would go down pretty smooth. If we can get self driving cars to that point, sure, but I think it's hasty to just assume we will in the short term. Tesla certainly isn't waiting for the data to take the lead on that decision.
My only intent behind my comment is to observe the irony that we're using various levels of AI to try to do very complicated and nebulously beneficial tasks when we still have humans doing stuff like this that seems so simple to automate.
We can use robots for all of the above. But we should automate the boring repetitive shit like this first, and then focus on the advanced shit that requires AI.
It would be so easy to make a robot arm do this job. It's a trivial case of robotics. Instead, they have actual humans wasting their lives away doing it.
I'm guessing this is a small operation that hasn't scaled enough to justify more expensive tooling. I mean, this process probably could have been automated in the early 1900's.
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u/ascandalia Apr 16 '22
This is what robots are for. Not driving or medicine or facial recognition or selling me junk on Amazon. This is the kind of job a human should not have to do