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Until AI comes for your mechanics job too,

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

I feel we are getting the worse of “both worlds”.

Fiction has sold AI in the form of Data from Star Trek. A robot with perfect recall of information over a wide range of topics and flawless reasoning.

Today’s AI is nothing like Data with its hallucinations but are taking jobs anyway because it’s “good enough” for many corporations.

P.S. Haven’t been keeping up to date but let’s say I have a story where I retcon a previously an established fact midway through the story with no explanation. If I feed it into AI as part of its training data, will it “challenge” this contradiction? Or will it just blindly accept it? What if the story is part of a prompt, will it “challenge” it in anyway?

I mean even a young child will point out that “that wasn’t what you said earlier”.

>Until AI comes for your mechanics job too,

AI didn't "come" for software either. This is just a rerun of the 2000s outsourcing boom with a different kind of dirt cheap slop code.

That one ended with execs patting themselves on the back for hiring "only the best" software engineers- almost as if slop actually was a problem.

I'm not concerned. If the trades get replaced, then its just over for everyone.

Then literally nothing is safe.

Besides, unless we build physical robots to trace airlines and replace them, I'm safe.

That kind of work needs robots in the loop. There is very little training data, most of it is private or opaque, and a lot of the know-how was never written down. It should hold out at least 20 years longer than programming, where basically the whole job happens inside the computer, and where the best references, examples, and source code are public to a degree unimaginable in most other industries.

>Until AI comes for your mechanics job too,

Yes and no!!

New cars are computers on wheel, you need a computer to release the break pad in some cars which is insane.

Now, when it comes to being a mechanic per se, there is no robot able to perform most of the jobs done by a human. Good mechanics are full booked.

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