Because we don’t have AI. We have algorithms putting words after another or pixels next to each other.
Better question is why we don’t use robots with specific algorithms to do those kinds of tasks.
We could if we wanted to. Not necessarily right now, but we’re pretty damn close. If all the damn billions we pour into the data centers putting words and pixels into order went into robotics, we’d have a world where no one had to get their hands dirty or risk an injury at work.
That would also make billionaires billionaires. But that would not stomp the regular folk down, and that’s the catch.
Because it takes actual engineering skill to make a robot that can (say) mine for minerals without destroying itself or the things it is looking for. Also because subjugation of people seems to be a fetish for some of these people. For example, sugarcane growers refused automation for years despite the high incidence of serious injuries for cane cutters who used machetes to cut the cane.
Because the ‘menial’ labor often has to be done right or something goes terribly wrong, it’s art and poetry that AI can be allowed to fuck up without serious consequences.
Could be because of money, but most likely it’s just that they never develop the thought because they do not give a fuck about the conditions of humans in slavery.
Art and poetry are just 0s and 1s. Generative AI takes 0s and 1s as input and produces 0s and 1s as output. It’s a math problem. Mining ore is a physical task. Getting a robot to perform a physical task is complicated because the computer needs to track all kinds of things we do naturally.
You can close your eyes and touch the tip of your nose because you have proprioception. A robot doesn’t have that. It needs some kind of way to determine where parts of it are in 3D space. Do you put GPS on those parts? LIDAR? RFID tags? The more sensors you add, the more expensive the robot becomes. The less sensors you have, the more guesswork is being done in the calculations, and the more likely it will fail at the task. Either you have a robot the can do the work autonomously, but costs more than a human labourer, or you have a cheap robot that needs the constant supervision of a human labourer.
Automation is less autonomous robot and more machine that has been purpose built to do one hyper specific thing and I think it’ll be like that for a while. Sarah Davis Baker has a great video on the topic of the robot body and the difficulties of reducing reality to a stream of sensor data.
Tbh, I figure there are robots for all that, they just aren’t LLMs and usually cost more than what folks are asking for the same job in some cases.
Unfortunately there kinda… aren’t. Robots to handle those tasks, that is. There absolutely can be, we just haven’t built them because the C-Suite has been terrified since 2011, that the rest of us would realize they are as useless as Forbes reported that year.
The main reason they want to take over automation of mental tasks is that we already can, fairly easily, automate single manual tasks. They have been able to automate away 99% of middle management and the C-Suite since 2011, when an algorithm that had been running for two years proved to be correct 99% of the time, when the human executives turned out to be correct in their conclusions only 68% of the time. They want the mental tasks automated so that no one realizes that they are just stealing everything they can from us, because they realized they are replaceable.
Can you share the source? I missed it at the time and would love to read it
Because the fucking dipshits that use it are too stupid to realize they’ve been lied to.
As someone with a job that AI could replace: it’s because it’s nonsense and isn’t important. We automated every job a robot could do a long time ago, so now the facade is falling and the bullshit jobs that don’t need to exist can be done by shitty robots because the job was also done by shitty humans. Also humans might be cheaper than robots?
You know the idea guy, who doesn’t want to do the actual work? But takes full credit when it’s done? AI is that guy’s best friend.
Humanity is a lost project. Too greedy, too selfish, too cruel. We will eradicate ourselves.
Nothing the universe will miss i guess.
I don’t ask AI to do my poetry or art.
Why do you do it? It’s not making your art and poetry by itself.
