> When your toilet is overflowing and water is spilling all over the floor, you don’t call a computer program. You call a plumber. A plumber has to come to your house, look at the pipes, figure out the problem, and fix it with their hands and their tools. AI can’t do that.
Even better, it can't be outsourced to India, either.
"Ten years from now you'll put on a jacket and find a mask in the pocket. 'Oh man, what a weird year that was,' you'll chuckle to yourself. Then you'll pick up your machete and continue across the wasteland, keeping to the shadows to avoid the roving gangs of cannibal raiders."
I wish I could upvote this post twice. I tell every young person I come into contact with to *very* seriously consider trade school, for this very reason. I've been doing it for a lot longer than the LLM concern has existed, because, being in IT, I've seen the outsourcing thing hit hard for a long, long time. LLM is just another reason.
Ai is just another stage in the Industrial Revolution. Before the Industrial Revolution, there was plenty of work for ditch diggers, digging graves, digging for the foundations of homes, digging to level the ground for roads. Now, we have the Industrial Revolution's equivalent to AI, backhoes and bulldozers.
All tools used to be made by blacksmiths. They also made metal items such as hinges and other hardware. They even made screws and nails. Imagine a handmade nail! Now, factories do all of that, with almost no human input.
Speaking of plumbers, plumbers now use PVC instead of cast iron for their pipes. That cuts the labor time by more than half.
Carpenters buy their 2x4's, churned out of mills, rather than hand saw them from logs.
Once upon a time, people built their own homes. They sewed their own clothes. They grew their own food. We long ago lost any sense of individual resourcefulness and self-sufficiency. AI is just another step in the process.
> When your toilet is overflowing and water is spilling all over the floor, you don’t call a computer program. You call a plumber. A plumber has to come to your house, look at the pipes, figure out the problem, and fix it with their hands and their tools. AI can’t do that.
Even better, it can't be outsourced to India, either.
Seeing your interests, where may I send you a nice quote on the post-apocalypse?
Feel free to toss it in my DMs, or leave it here, I guess?
Re: "The Day After..."
"Ten years from now you'll put on a jacket and find a mask in the pocket. 'Oh man, what a weird year that was,' you'll chuckle to yourself. Then you'll pick up your machete and continue across the wasteland, keeping to the shadows to avoid the roving gangs of cannibal raiders."
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Perfect.
It soon can be outsourced to homeless american engineers
Agree 100%!
I wish I could upvote this post twice. I tell every young person I come into contact with to *very* seriously consider trade school, for this very reason. I've been doing it for a lot longer than the LLM concern has existed, because, being in IT, I've seen the outsourcing thing hit hard for a long, long time. LLM is just another reason.
Ai is just another stage in the Industrial Revolution. Before the Industrial Revolution, there was plenty of work for ditch diggers, digging graves, digging for the foundations of homes, digging to level the ground for roads. Now, we have the Industrial Revolution's equivalent to AI, backhoes and bulldozers.
All tools used to be made by blacksmiths. They also made metal items such as hinges and other hardware. They even made screws and nails. Imagine a handmade nail! Now, factories do all of that, with almost no human input.
Speaking of plumbers, plumbers now use PVC instead of cast iron for their pipes. That cuts the labor time by more than half.
Carpenters buy their 2x4's, churned out of mills, rather than hand saw them from logs.
Once upon a time, people built their own homes. They sewed their own clothes. They grew their own food. We long ago lost any sense of individual resourcefulness and self-sufficiency. AI is just another step in the process.