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I feel like trades will be impacted too. No reason robots can't do much of it cheaper and faster. They're even 3D printing houses.

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Trades will be impacted when a lot of people compete for those jobs and their wages go down.

Afaik all the 3d printed houses have been expensive disasters.

So have the AI built software products.

What AI?

Does this include or exclude places like China?

Idk, has china printed houses successfully? And if there are reports of that can we trust that the information hasn’t been gov altered to make a failure seem like a success?

You could probably just look at the pictures of all of the structures, and housing developments, and decide for yourself how real they are.

But leaving them out of this conversation like it doesn’t even exist is bonkers.

I’m not “leaving them out” i literally just don’t know anything about them.

And yes i am skeptical as a default on this subject. But still - photos don’t actually tell the whole story. What was the cost? How was the project schedule? Etc.

Hey, we’re all having this conversation ^_^

I was skeptical when they first started doing it 20 years ago.

Now, right wrong or indifferent, it’s a known entity there - for a LOT of projects. Enough of them exist now that…I’m skeptical they could find enough stupid people to keep paying for it. I know the government has a hand in a lot, but that only goes so far, for so long…

They’re claiming 50% reduction in materials.

Pretend it’s the same amount - the 30%-50% labor reduction for a project is probably plenty to make it stick.

It’s made it to Dubai, Japan. Dunno!

training data for physical tasks like that is much, much harder than just collecting the entire internet. It'll be resistant to AI much longer than knowledge work will be

We already have construction codes. Fitting techs with AR headsets could gather more data. Existing structures won't be the first step due to variences. The best place to implement this is modular building in controlled automated environments. Even if we enhance the current productivity, we will create a problem due labor supply driving down incomes, especially if people are coming from the other jobs affected by AI.

You can barely capture folding laundry using task data, and you're vastly underestimating how much independent decision making the trades do in their regular work. If I'm honest this whole thing reads like someone who's never been exposed to the actual work.

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