It’s depressing that bulls**t like this is still allowed to go unchallenged. When in the history of capitalism do companies, out of the goodness of their heart, find better paying jobs for workers they don’t need any more?
The only way CEOs call sell this shiny happy future of jobs being automated away, is to be allowed to get away with lies like this. It’s long past the point our politics deals with the reality of automation by AI/robots. It’s already happening, and it’s only going to accelerate.
Humanoid robots will take over factory jobs within 5 years, Xiaomi CEO says
As I responded to another that is exactly what makes general robots different. If it gets to the point that you can buy one and set it to do tasks its no longer a big investment but a purchase here and there. Its like the personal computer. Before that places had to invest big time into super computer datacenters to use computing. Suddenly small businesses and people at home could buy one and utilize it. If an office can skip replacing its chairs and copier to get one one year and its worth the purchase, then it will become standard purchases that offices do. not millions. thousands.
Every factory i have ever worked at had automated systems that broke and management decided it would just be cheaper to hire someone to perform the task rather than properly fix and then maintain their automated systems.
this is why I said it was huge that the one robot could change its own battery and once it could do maintenance and repair on one of its kind its going to be an even greater leap. I don’t think that is very far away. Honestly the thing likely to sink it is enshitification where all repair parts and such will only be through a contract and maybe only authorized units will have the repair code and they will send one to your place with your monthly subscription. Which im like 99% sure will happen.