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Like I've been saying for years, AI doesn't need to be sentient to royally fuck society. Just needs to be good enough to mimic you and ruin your life or take your job.
The unemployment line there makes for quite the mental image.
Listen it's a niche market
AI can have my job. It's eyes will hurt within a week and it will be taking mental health days.
I'd love to give AI my job, but then I'd be homeless.
I should clarify that I'm not against AI as a technology. I'm against it making me poor
I mean, realistically, I do expect someone to put together a viable robotic house-construction robot at some point.
https://www.homelight.com/blog/buyer-how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-a-house/
Also, I'd bet that it cuts into materials cost, because you don't need to provide the material in a form convenient for a human to handle.
I've seen people creating habitations with large-scale 3d printers, but that's not really a practical solution. It's just mechanically-simple, so easier to make the robot.
I don't know if it needs to use what we'd think of as AI today to do that. Maybe it will, if that's a way to solve some problems conveniently. But I do think that automating house construction will happen at some point in time.