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Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced. - Digit is a humanoid bipedal robot from Agility Robotics. (www.businessinsider.com)
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[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 11 months ago

Okay, modern agriculture then. Before industrialisation, 98% of people worked in agriculture as basically peasants. Now it's pretty much exactly the opposite, with 2% working in something related.

I agree AI could be a major problem if it gets even a little bit better. This specific story isn't an example though.

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