The anti-guillotine
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But in addition to eager servants they've also had stubborn people who resist. Machines are easier to look after and less likely to rebel. And they're quickly reducing the need for technicians and programmers.
Famous last words for any manager that fires the IT department just to boost their KPIs.
I can tell you have never worked on autonomy, automation, or system integration. I have, and I have no fear of being put out of work anytime soon.
"We have siege engines now, what do we need troops for?"
Ditto. Running positional checks and teaching on robots has taught me that I'm not going anywhere.
I'm sure the artists would have said the same thing about AI prior to 2023.
There are several orders of magnitude difference in the difficulty between drawing a picture, and connecting a new sensor into a automated system, integrating the sensor data into the system processes, and then integrating the system processes into the autonomy layer.
If my job is ever replaced by AI, the person using the AI to do it will have to be someone like me. A layperson wouldn't even know where to begin.
Nah, the layperson will just tell an AI what they want and it can work out all the details, calling on other AI agents if it wants. Doesn't matter if what you're talking about is several orders of magnitude harder, the exponential development of AI will get there quite soon.
My theory is that robot tech will "plateau" and stay relatively stable for decades. Sort of like cars are now. Sure the 2020's cars are different than the 1960's ones, but not a whole lot has changed. Big heavy muscle cars? Ford F-150s :/ Improvements within the existing tech as opposed to an evolution like EVs replacing the ICE.
Why restrict tech advances in robotics? The (hundreds of) millions of robots already made would become obsolete & the billionaires wouldn't like that. Replacing them every decade would be brutal to the bottom line. Plus the higher-tech ones would overpower the existing ones, making robotic security very flimsy.
So, plateau. Plus reality may cause that too. Liquid metal? Nah, unlikely.
Stubborn people against the rulers can build drones too.
A dang water hose can knock out most robots. Or oil, or debris getting into sensitive areas, sticky materials...
You really need a factory to make them, especially if you want to make as many as the government will have. But running such a factory would be difficult to hide and you're dependent on large amounts of raw materials and products from other suppliers so there's a lot of ways that illegal operation would get shut down.
A distributed cottage industry would be better. In any case, if they can't stop the illegal drug trade, they wouldn't be able to stop illegal killbots.
remember the dildocopter!