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Ask HN: Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification?

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I anticipate a raft of answers along the lines of "AI + robots will automate everything eventually", but am more interested in areas where you think there is an inherent or structural bias against near-term AI or LLM-ification. More for my own intellectual curiosity than that I'm personally looking for business niches.

For reference, I am seeing this in my own work (govauctions.app). AI can search and summarize the digital surfaces (ie government auction sites), but every large-ticket item (a vehicle, a backhoe, a house) involves a physical inspection, pickup, transportation, etc.

You may tell me that an agent can place the bid, a robot will travel in a self-driving car to do the inspection and an automated truck will haul away the tractor I bought, but I think that this future is coming to Kansas or even California far more slowly than launching a website for your restaurant.

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I'm taking group fitness classes at a local gym, and I love them.

I assume that AI is quite capable of designing workouts, and creating audio files with instructions that I could take to the gym. But I have no interest in that; the appeal of the classes is the relationships I build with the other humans.

Perhaps this is overly optimistic, but I hope that it's the things that people actually value, where they find meaning and depth and human connection in the experience, that will prove most resistant to AI.

Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification?

Stand-up comedy, specifically including jokes that are racist and/or highly vulgar, for now at least. Someone will probably tweak a local model assuming they have not done this already.

For everything else I think it's a matter of when robot plumbers can do a better job than human plumbers without destroying a persons home, without spying on them and without being hacked by children.

>without spying on them

I wish but that really doesn't seem to be where the world is heading

I’m general, people like communicating with humans more than robots.

Actually, if they don’t know whether they are talking to a human or a robot through text messages, and don’t even know that a robot may be answering, they may prefer the robot. But in face to face conversations, humans win.

Otherwise not very subtile advertising from you.

Anything in physical world, digital is lost forever..

Robots will eventually encroach on physical too, then the subset will shrink to "physical world with required human interaction".

For me the question now is whether we will ever get a place where humans will prefer to interact with embodied AI robots over other humans.

>AI + robots will automate

Have this really happened anywhere? I mean, really?

In white collar job I think marketing and sales are the most safest roles. AI is going to exist no doubt, but it can never understand human psyche, needs, or trends.

I mean, we're still playing around with the copy that any LLM gives to make it sound perfect... and I'm only talking about a copy then you see what's the state of other aspects.

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