> but for the sake of the argument, let's restrict it to manual jobs where being human doesn't matter. This is the biggest misconception about AI and automatio

> but for the sake of the argument, let's restrict it to manual jobs where being human doesn't matter. This is the biggest misconception about AI and automation: manual jobs will be the last to be automated, because making robots (which is specialized hardware) is much, much more expensive than making software. That's why our 70s dreams about robots haven't materialized, despite Japan going all in on robots, and why Besos aims to “algorithmically control workers' body”. > It doesn't look good. Having machines do work isn't a problem in itself, in fact that's what the industrial revolution was about, the problem is power and whealth grab by a minority of people owning the means of productions…