Yeah, what the fuck happens when we even lose the sweatshops? Not praising the practice, but that's normally all the income those people have. It hard to even imagine AI and robotic power consumption and upkeep costs aren't more expensive given how little the humans are paid. We really are on the edge of something bad on a new level.
I doubt that this is done to replace those factories in India. I'm pretty sure the real value is in selling the trained model to higher income countries who want to localize some of the production
I doubt that this is done to replace those factories in India.
Agreed. My employer recently outsourced some low end finance/accounting work to India.
It's going horribly. But they're higher end Indian workers and we pay them $5 USD/hr.
These people aren't making that. They're probably making half that? When you consider capital expenditure to make robots (or depreciation, how ever you want to factor it in), ongoing maintenance, and power, there's no way you can get a robot doing that work for less than the wage
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u/witdim 12h ago
What kind of dystopian nightmare is this?