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> drive vehicles, pick fruit, clean houses, and fold shirts What? That's a weirdly specific and tiny list. How about: - Nearly any sort of creative work: prog
by pluto9 8y ago
> drive vehicles, pick fruit, clean houses, and fold shirts
What? That's a weirdly specific and tiny list. How about:
- Nearly any sort of creative work: programming, graphic design, product design, landscaping, architecture, writing marketing copy, technical writing, music.
- Diagnosing any complex system. Machines are terrible at diagnosing themselves. Ever pulled an OBD-II code from a car and then wondered which of a hundred actual problems might be the cause of it? How about finding out which exact part is causing your dishwasher to back up and flood?
- Actually repairing any problems that have been diagnosed. Repairing a car is vastly more complicated than building one from scratch using a neatly laid out set of parts in a predetermined series of steps. Hell, making a robot that can reliably change lightbulbs in homes would be a milestone achievement.
- Construction, or any job that requires using tools to performs a task that isn't defined with absolute precision and sequencing. Similar to repair work.
- Human interaction. Medical care, guided tours, live entertainment (not just the performers, but they people they interact with backstage), police work, HR, public relations, management, child care.
- Any mission-oriented or long-term goal-oriented work, i.e., military strategy, city planning, legislation, social policy, organizational direction.
- lisper 8y ago> That's a weirdly specific and tiny list. Indeed. I didn't make it sufficiently clear, but I intended this sentence to be the operative one: "AI and automation will soon drive the last nail in the labor-scarcity coffin" So that list was supposed to be a post-AI list, not a contemporary one.