They are all thinking that AI won’t take over my plumbing / electrical / hvac job. But I just saw a demonstrator bot that was trained on data from humans wearing pressure sensitive gloves. The robot had excellent hand movement and had very quick adaptability. So these guys in the trades jobs haven’t got long.
So these guys in the trades jobs haven’t got long.
I too have incredibly sensitive hands.
But I pay a plumber because his track record of flooding my house is 0%, while my own flooding track record is… not 0%.
I learned that the 0% rate of flooding is the most important thing, to me personally, when it comes to plumbing work.
Don’t ask me how I learned that. It is neither interesting, nor hilarious, nor deeply embarrassing to me personally, or anything. It’s just my lived experience of doing my own plumbing.
There’s currently no credible evidence that the hallucinating problem in AI can ever be solved, at all.
AI does quick shoddy work. Some quick shoddy work by AI is easily fixed by a human (or fixed by a second AI for those feeling frisky and risky.) But some quick shoddy work by AI is instantly tragic, leaving no time for fixes. (As shown by any quick search for the words “AI” and “database”.)
I do agree that we will have robot plumbers available, soon.
If their work matches the quality of work done by AI coders, some houses are going to burn down.
Yes, I said “some” and “burn down.”.
Many houses will flood. That’s not the interesting bit. A few will manage to burn down. That’ll be novel and interesting to watch, for those of us not trying to live there.
I plan to stick with skilled human trades-people, myself.
Edit: And I want to point out that it’s a privilege to hire skilled humans, that I appreciate. We know some landlords are going to send in a bot with the words “fuck you, you flooded my home” graffitied on it, at every opportunity, because it’s slightly cheaper.
Fox News will change that. Soon, they will be building more of them to “own the libs”
They are all thinking that AI won’t take over my plumbing / electrical / hvac job. But I just saw a demonstrator bot that was trained on data from humans wearing pressure sensitive gloves. The robot had excellent hand movement and had very quick adaptability. So these guys in the trades jobs haven’t got long.
I too have incredibly sensitive hands.
But I pay a plumber because his track record of flooding my house is 0%, while my own flooding track record is… not 0%.
I learned that the 0% rate of flooding is the most important thing, to me personally, when it comes to plumbing work.
Don’t ask me how I learned that. It is neither interesting, nor hilarious, nor deeply embarrassing to me personally, or anything. It’s just my lived experience of doing my own plumbing.
There’s currently no credible evidence that the hallucinating problem in AI can ever be solved, at all.
AI does quick shoddy work. Some quick shoddy work by AI is easily fixed by a human (or fixed by a second AI for those feeling frisky and risky.) But some quick shoddy work by AI is instantly tragic, leaving no time for fixes. (As shown by any quick search for the words “AI” and “database”.)
I do agree that we will have robot plumbers available, soon.
If their work matches the quality of work done by AI coders, some houses are going to burn down.
Yes, I said “some” and “burn down.”.
Many houses will flood. That’s not the interesting bit. A few will manage to burn down. That’ll be novel and interesting to watch, for those of us not trying to live there.
I plan to stick with skilled human trades-people, myself.
Edit: And I want to point out that it’s a privilege to hire skilled humans, that I appreciate. We know some landlords are going to send in a bot with the words “fuck you, you flooded my home” graffitied on it, at every opportunity, because it’s slightly cheaper.