alt Hacker NewsLet's assume, for the sake of argument, that AI truly is able to automate away basically all software development. Any oversight currently performed by humans can itself be done by agents.
...don't you think the ability to create virtually unlimited amounts of software, at virtually no cost, is going to lead to major advances in robotics? I realize there's a lot of very hard problems involved in e.g. robotic hands (to take one example), but once software development is practically free, I'd expect a lot of seemingly-impossible problems to get resolved by the sheer quantity of what we can create and experiment with.
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The robots are going to be controlled by the same billionaires that make employees pee in bottles or fire hundreds on a whim over tweets.
Our labor power is going to be fully eroded and the robots will not be serving us.
Yeah, but manufacturing things takes materials and time; I'd give it at least a few years before we manage to squeeze people out of that too.