Sure, but machines cannot do troubleshooting the way humans can. Yes you can have machines tell you what's wrong, but they cannot reason why a problem exists and how to fix it. There are too many random elements to account for, things that are impossible to account for even. This is why you still have car mechanics, even considering all the fancy telemetry that exists. In the same way, a computer program cannot debug itself.

[–] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Yes you can have machines tell you what’s wrong, but they cannot reason why a problem exists and how to fix it.

This is also true of a human worker though. That's why the profession of "doctor" exists. The question is, why couldn't a robot be made to perform maintenance on other robots?

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I feel like you’re missing the point. Machines are quickly reaching the stage where they will able to troubleshoot, think and reason.

That’s what we’re discussing.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

We don't have general purpose AI yet, but I don't think that's a prerequisite for automating many jobs out of existence. Humans will still be needed to solve really complex problems for the foreseeable future, but the number of humans that need to work will be greatly reduced. A great example we can already see today are automated ports and factories in China where there's a just handful people overseeing them.