Plenty of jobs that are decades away from automation. Will a robot climb on your roof to fix your A/C or repair your plumbing soon? Probably not. Now I'm sure some enterprising startup is trying, but seriously, it's not close.
> But muh singularity!
Sure, any day now Optimus will become sentient and replace home builders... or not.
So yeah, probably less lawyers(yay), software techs, accountants, etc. But those dollars will flow to people taking vacations, renovating their homes, eating fancy food, etc. Who knows what the net effect will be in the long term?
Forget singularity, do you think the robotics problem is genuinely hard enough that if we devoted significant amount of intelligence to it, it would not get solved?
>any day now Optimus will become sentient and replace home builders.
I think you're kidding about being "sentient" but it feels like they just have to get somewhat good at a very few tasks and we would be able to automate some large swath of manual labour. We don't need that many fancy tricks to get there.
A lot of people are already reporting significant speed ups in Bio research, why wouldn't we see that in robotics?
> But muh singularity!
Sure, any day now Optimus will become sentient and replace home builders... or not.
So yeah, probably less lawyers(yay), software techs, accountants, etc. But those dollars will flow to people taking vacations, renovating their homes, eating fancy food, etc. Who knows what the net effect will be in the long term?