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Ask HN: Last industries to be taken over by AI?

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Re: Ask HN: Last industries to be taken over by AI?

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Post by MrQuincle »

Is it harder to create a brain than a body?

Is it harder to create generalists than specialists?

The fine grained resolution we have with respect to actuation and tactile sensing might be harder nut to crack than honing down on the regularities in our cortex. A teacher for example needs to guide your hand when you learn to write or prevents you quietly from drowning when you learn to swim.

Even a truck driver might be more a generalist than a specialist. A truck driver jumps out of his truck to unload, fill in papers, prevent people hitchhiking in the back, prevent theft, taking detours, finding an address even with errors in the administration.

I also doubt sincerely that we will be able to tune the AI in such way that they will be content with all the jobs humans do not do anymore. Are we able and willing to codify a society on intellect? Will we be willingly creating unambitious AIs for particular dull tasks?

Re: Ask HN: Last industries to be taken over by AI?

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Post by godzillabrennus »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #6

Maybe I'm saying this because I've been involved in the restaurant industry for most of my life in varying capacities (cook, chef, waiter, bartender, manager, soon to be owner), but I think there will always be a certain niche for restaurants and bars staffed by humans. Certainly fast food restaurants, probably establishments like diners, hotels, etc..., will make use of automation, but going out, talking to a human,…

As a consumer I'd nearly always prefer a machine take care of my needs than a person or an animal. It's fun to talk with my friends, family or other diners at a restaurant, it's not usually fun to talk with the staff. At least in Chicago they usually seem miserable, incompetent, or a mix of both.

It might be fun to have niche locations with humans serving people and taking orders but I imagine it'd be more like horse drawn carriages serve tourists.

Re: Ask HN: Last industries to be taken over by AI?

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Post by aaron695 »

Entertainment will be early to go.

As soon as we can get realistic video and audio why employ 100+ people to do the show. It'll all be CGI.

One person can do Game of Thrones.

This is why I think CG audio will be an amazing jump for humanity whole new content will be created and make other content obsolete.

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