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Joanna Maciejewska

@anakin78z Once they can load and unload themselves, we can talk. Otherwise, I'm still doing dishes and laundry.

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Jens Zalzala

@AuthorJMac
You're not doing laundry and dishes. You're just loading and unloading.
AI art doesn't generate and apply itself either.

Jens Zalzala

@AuthorJMac You asked for dishwashing and laundry to be automated. People did. Now you're saying 'not like that'.

People are automating art & writing. But it doesn't replace the whole process. The idea that AI replaces every part of the process is fully false. So your analogy doesn't work. If you look at any production out there actually using AI, they take weeks, months, etc. Why? Because it's just another tool in a process.

If you want tools to free up your time, they probably can already.

Joanna Maciejewska

@anakin78z No, I said that if we're automating anything with AI, I'd prefer automation of things that people generally don't enjoy than things that people do enjoy. Laundry and dishes were just examples.

And if you think it doesn't replace the whole process, you haven't been paying attention to what's going on in creative industries and those industries who used to employ creative freelancers.
It could have been just a tool. It's been a money-saving and money grabbing replacement which development's ethical side is in question. To me, AI isn't the next step in creativity. It's a tool of greed.

It could have been great. But well, some humans prove over and over again that we can't have nice things.

@anakin78z No, I said that if we're automating anything with AI, I'd prefer automation of things that people generally don't enjoy than things that people do enjoy. Laundry and dishes were just examples.

And if you think it doesn't replace the whole process, you haven't been paying attention to what's going on in creative industries and those industries who used to employ creative freelancers.
It could have been just a tool. It's been a money-saving and money grabbing replacement which development's...

argv minus one

@anakin78z

I have to do far more than merely loading and unloading a dishwasher. I also have to scrape off food debris by hand, and get everything into a basically-clean state, or else it'll still be dirty when it comes out of the dishwasher. That's the better part of an hour's worth of work, per day, sometimes twice a day, for a family of two.

I'm under the impression there are some dishwashers that work better than this, but that's a luxury I can't afford.

@AuthorJMac

Jens Zalzala

@argv_minus_one @AuthorJMac Holy crap an hour of work for a family of two. I feel bad for you, I really do.

ShadSterling

@argv_minus_one @anakin78z @AuthorJMac yeah… my first thought seeing the first post was that we have machines that wash clothes and dishes, but we don’t pay workers enough to afford them. The handyman for one of my previous landlords described the dishwasher there as really more of a sanitizer

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