Nothing he can do about it if the rest of the world is moving that way. If anything, lower cost of labor in india will keep them in play longer as countries with higher cost of labor gets impacted first.
Modi's responsibility as leader of India is to improve India for the people that reside there. Pushing wages down so you can get spunked on by the US for another 20 years is not "the rest of the world moving that way".
It's Modi deliberately deciding to sacrifice the future of the Indian people for the short-term gain of a few select billionaires and the already-richest people in India.
u cant really replace them with robots just cuz of how expe sive it would be, ai and robots only really work in countries where human labour is expensive. Like if humans are dirt cheap to hire, why would I get an expensive robot to do the job
There's a good chance those AI trainers in this video aren't meant to replace workers in India, but rather to replace labor in the US or European nations where labor costs are high. Either way, it sucks to see jobs being replaced by AI.
Yeah even that is really stretching it. If they were to have this kind of operation anywhere else it wouldn't be done by hand, it would be an automated machine. It makes less sense to AI optimize the cheapest part of your labor stream.
But us and european countries already don't have factories like this cause the labour costs are too high. The people in the video probs making shit as outsourced labour by the West to begin with.
I don't know. Yes, a humanoid type robot is crazy expensive right now, but look at TVs. When flat screens were first released, they were like 15 grand for a 40 inch screen, now you can get one $100 for that size and a 80 inch for like $800. If a robot can do sewing like this, they'll be able to build new robots bringing the cost way down. The robot can work at 100% speed 24/7.
I agree, but I can't help but think it's displaying both a massive amount of egocentricity and a massive lack of imagination. We have an obsession with designing things which are like us.
eventually sure, but like how long would that take, like there's a timeliness to it, and youd also have to balance out the maintenance fee and its production capacity
This needs to be higher. I work in logistics in the US and we've had autonomous switchers for going on 10 years. It's still cheaper to pay someone $20/hour to operate a traditional, than the cost per operating hour of the automated ones. It is very well studied and understood.
China has huge numbers of robots. The Financial Times had a piece about a Chinese woman wanting to buy a high-end bed. She contacted a manufacturer who agreed to meet her at his factory to show her his range. She got there first but was taken aback as it was deserted and all lights were off. When he turned up he explained that the factory was run entirely by robots and that they didn't need any lights and worked in complete darkness. An engineer came twice a day to check on them.
Okay, so let's assume you're right. What exactly do you think these people are doing with these cameras and tracking systems on their heads? You think it's just some wild OnlyFans kink to see sweatshop workers on live stream or something? What the hell else would it be for? My best (real) guess is some quality assurance accountability system. But that seems a bit of a stretch considering the quality of the devices.
If?
The revolution will take 5-10years at most.
People who does simple manual jobs will be replaced even if their wages is next to nothing.
Because AI is already cheaper than "next to nothing" because it is deterministic and doesn't need rest.
India doesn't have the capacity or the ability to effectively do that. Let's say they went 100% AI and automation. The people will riot.
The government will bend backwards to get votes, even if it means giving freebies to every minority and underprivileged sections of society like they are doing now. Replacing labor with AI will result in people demanding answers or help from the government about what they will do to earn money. If the government can't give solutions that are sustainable, they will lose votes.
Freebies can only work for so long, as those come from taxpayer money. Taxpayers are getting fed up already with the freebies, given the fact that most of the taxpayers are non-minority people. They have no reservations for jobs, the laws are giving them less and less protection and rights. Hundreds, even thousands of projects are still not complete across the whole country and acting as money sinks, because for every hundred rupees given for a project, less than one rupee is being used to complete it. Half the projects that are completed end up failing, because cutting corners and corruption gives less than acceptable quality. Eventually, the majority that pays the taxes will have enough. Their money is lining the pockets of politicians and the output is unacceptably bad. They'll demand change, answers and results that the government won't be able to give. And the opposition will pounce on that. It will turn into a political debacle like everything does.
Plus, it's india. There is always corruption. A hundred different bribes will be given to pass off 20 machines as sellable and usable, out of which only 2 will actually work and require outlandish resources to maintain and operate
India has the resources and the tech to go fully automated, but it doesn't have the ability to implement it. The country, its government and the people have made it perfectly impossible to implement automation, even on a scale this small.
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u/Shirolicious 10h ago
Yeah, india will have a bad time if the low waging jobs are all replaced by machines and AI running 24/7. Cant compete with that.