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Not monotonous but non-creative.
Any machine can do non-crative work. No machine can do creative work.
You don’t need creativity to farm food, you do need creativity to invent new medicine.
In an average company that isn’t scaled worldwide, usually the cost of labour is 40-50% (paying wages).
This means if we replace humans with robots, doing repetitive and non-creative work, we can make stuff cheaper by a lot.
OFC unless the company boss, who is then left alone with all the profits, just decides to keep the prices with no people he needs to pay anymore.
the sad thing is we should be excited to replace human beings doing monotonous work but we all know how that will go with capitalists running things.
It would be exciting if all of our lives were going to be easier rather than an increase in homelessness.
This is the thing. If it does increase efficiency that only goes to the money and not the worker. It’s not unique to AI
Not monotonous but non-creative. Any machine can do non-crative work. No machine can do creative work. You don’t need creativity to farm food, you do need creativity to invent new medicine.
In an average company that isn’t scaled worldwide, usually the cost of labour is 40-50% (paying wages). This means if we replace humans with robots, doing repetitive and non-creative work, we can make stuff cheaper by a lot. OFC unless the company boss, who is then left alone with all the profits, just decides to keep the prices with no people he needs to pay anymore.