I’m not really seeing the point of AI augmented human labour here.
It seems like it’s meant to fill the gap between now and the production of either generalised or specialised macrorobotics, but it seems to me that that niche is better filled by existing machinery.
Why go through the clunky process of instructing a human how to do a task, when you can commandeer an old factory, and repurpose some old drones to do most of the work for you? Human beings might *in theory* have a much higher ceiling for precise work, but realistically you can’t micromanage someone into being good at a physical task; they need to build muscle memory, and that’s gonna be hard to come by with the constantly changing industrial processes a super intelligence would presumably be implementing.
On the other hand, you could macgyver old commercial machinery into any shape you want, quickly spin up a virtual training environment, and have an agent trained up on any industrial process you want in presumably minutes.
I think you might be assuming that industrial robots are hard, just because humans are bad at designing them. But I reckon a little bit of superintelligence would go a long way in hacking together workable robotics.
I’m not really seeing the point of AI augmented human labour here.
It seems like it’s meant to fill the gap between now and the production of either generalised or specialised macrorobotics, but it seems to me that that niche is better filled by existing machinery.
Why go through the clunky process of instructing a human how to do a task, when you can commandeer an old factory, and repurpose some old drones to do most of the work for you? Human beings might *in theory* have a much higher ceiling for precise work, but realistically you can’t micromanage someone into being good at a physical task; they need to build muscle memory, and that’s gonna be hard to come by with the constantly changing industrial processes a super intelligence would presumably be implementing.
On the other hand, you could macgyver old commercial machinery into any shape you want, quickly spin up a virtual training environment, and have an agent trained up on any industrial process you want in presumably minutes.
I think you might be assuming that industrial robots are hard, just because humans are bad at designing them. But I reckon a little bit of superintelligence would go a long way in hacking together workable robotics.