Manufacturing Automation
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AI knowledge work disruption parallels 2000s-era manufacturing automation and offshoring
“To me, it's still not significantly different than manufacturing automation in the 2000 and what that did to blue collar work in the U S and also outsourcing within China. And this is a whole other discussion right now. We only got two minutes left, but to me,…”
Fully Automated 'Lights-Out' Factories Will Categorically Emerge in Many Industries
“So it's categorically going to be the case in many industries, and that would be an example perhaps of the ninety-two million that I talk about. But it's not going to be true of every single industry.”
Power: Manufacturing automation is primarily a software coordination problem
“Most of this is actually a software problem. People like see a robot do thing, but it's actually like all of the machines are extremely dumb computers basically, and it's a coordination problem and it's an autonomy problem. And the one thing that we are still …”
Farid: Manufacturing automation has lower technical complexity than logistics
“If you move to manufacturing, like you have a lot more consistency because every production line is kind of making the same part or the same product at relatively higher rate. And so the technical complexity is lower, but the operational complexity is higher.”