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by est31
6 days ago
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A new generation of AI companies is out there to take over blue collar jobs as well. Check recent YC batches. Software engineering was a nice target because inputs and outputs are just data and you don't need to figure out robotics. But idk, 3 years ago it seemed illusory (at least for me) that LLMs could take over software engineering, but now here we are. They are still not 100% there yet (software engineers still have jobs), but we are getting ever closer. Companies are in the process of figuring out robotics, and even if it's not figured out, then we might introduce a gig-ified blue collar economy where an unskilled, underpaid gig worker implements instructions by AI. Plus a lot of blue collar work already today involves robots (cranes, excavators, trucks, etc). |
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At least LLM programming bubble is applying language models to language tasks, even if the results are mixed. The LLM robotics bubble is doing what exactly? They're making videos of remote-controlled skinsuits doing mundane tasks inefficiently in a way that impressed investors. They're trying to exploit the ELIZA effect for physical movement.
I saw one sorting packages to put the barcode label on top. Do you know what's a better way to do that? You put a camera on every side, including underneath, so the barcode can be read from any direction. This scanner can work at line speed instead of being the bottleneck. This isn't new. And you sort packages into different buckets by having pneumatically activated wedges that swing out and push the package onto a different line. The bottle return machine at my nearest supermarket does that, I'm sure wannabe billion dollar VC funded startups can manage it.