Djasdalabala
Djasdalabala t1_iz1c3l3 wrote
Reply to comment by Reddituser45005 in Google says they have made a significant advance in allowing humans to communicate with robots using natural language, and claim an "order of magnitude" increase in capabilities over previous approaches. by lughnasadh
>It’s a mistake to view this as just a threat to unskilled labor.
Absolutely. In many cases it's the complete opposite: intellectual jobs are often easier to automate than manual ones.
Building a bot that can do *everything* a good plumber can do pretty much means cracking AGI. On the other hand, some very smart people do some difficult, but ultimately very narrowly-bounded tasks that a computer will do better.
As an extreme/forced example, look at chess: it's a "smart person" activity where computers utterly dominate.
Djasdalabala t1_jaje456 wrote
Reply to NASA’s DART data validates kinetic impact as planetary defense method | DART altered the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos by 33 minutes by mepper
Note that while this is an effective method to steer an asteroid, the difficulty scales with its mass and delay before impact. This would not be practical in a (very unlikely) "don't look up" scenario, where the asteroid is huge and discovered only a couple of months from impact.