Of Digit, the “irreplaceable” and the inevitable…

Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/18/amazon-robot-warehouses-digit-workers

Insisting that people are “irreplaceable” in the company’s operation, Brady pushed back at the suggestion it could one day have a fully automated warehouse. “There’s not any part of me that thinks that would ever be a reality,” he said. “People are so central to the fulfillment process; the ability to think at a higher level, the ability to diagnose problems.

My readers, I cannot lie to you, the word “irreplaceable” here is overly optimistic if it sounds like a lie it’s because it does not merely sound like one. It reasons like one. Ford already bought it but this is mainly robotics, mainly mechanical. If they start integrating AI with robotics, Robotics will be irreplaceable. That is a fact. And it is inevitable. It will happen. But let’s talk mainly mechanics and most people are still superceded.

Look at digit. It’s always at work. It never complains. He does not ask for higher raises without working harder as some privileged people we should not name do. It’s happy at work, dancing and enjoying every step it makes, may even sing along to one of my songs, raise its hands like it just don’t care. My darling readers, I call it like it is in this emerging world of modern AI systems. I don’t t ever wanna do otherwise.