Asklemmy

The ceo of nvidia (the company that makes all the ai chips and cards) is touting robotic ai slaves as the next step. The company rekindled their commercially failed physics simulation package recently in order to make this happen. They call it digital twinning at the moment but their example application is an ai powered robotic humanoid-ish dishwasher.

It’s worth keeping in mind that from the perspective of economic effects, ai in the workplace is functionally slavery. You command the ai to go do something that is intended for humans to do and only have to pay the barest minimum in order to cover the costs.

This is different from mechanization like the cotton gin or printing press because in order to accommodate those developments, the entire process of growing cotton or outfitting a copy shop had to be changed.

To use nvidias example of a robot dishwasher, the same effect could be achieved (and is achieved in some establishments) with specifically dimensioned plates, a conveyor belt system and some simple industrial automation to load and run the dishwashing machine.

That would be the mechanization equivalent of a cotton gin or printing press.

Spending trillions to develop the technology required to replicate the effect of a person standing in front of a sink scrubbing plates all day is just inventing the mechanical negro.

So, ai is bad.

But you don’t need to worry about it because you can’t do anything about it.