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Dubois: Workforce knowledge drain will cause major industrial failures and food contamination
“I think that we're going to see you know, maybe some kind of major failures in equipment or, you know maybe I hope not, but maybe you know, plants having, you know, explosions or major issues that way. Or I think that we may find that we start to see stuff sli…”
Dubois: Gen Z and millennials will not spend a decade mastering factory equipment
“So Gen Z, millennials, these are folks who really are not interested in spending the next 10 years of their life learning how to run this equipment or maintain this equipment in these factories.”
Dubois: Low-cost manufacturing in the US will completely move overseas
“For better or for worse, there's just not going to be a lot of value in American manufacturing making really inexpensive stuff. I mean, all of that is, is going to go away. It's going to go to other countries again, for better, for worse, you could wish it was…”
Dubois: Automation will shift humans to higher-value tasks, not end work
“The first aspect is, is that humans aren't gonna work. I don't think that that's ever gonna be the case. I think that humans are kind of built to work. I think that we have kind of an inherent Motivation to work, to create, to make things. And so I think that …”
Dubois: Humanity remains far from AGI and self-replicating robot threats
“The more Skynet type of scenario where it's kind of self replicating, where it starts to kind of think for itself. I don't see that happening. And I mean, I'm an AI expert. I live in this world every day. While the, while these AI algorithms are very convincin…”
Dubois: ChatGPT and LLMs lack true comprehension and are glorified autocomplete
“It doesn't actually understand anything. It doesn't know what it's saying. What it's really good at is picking what the next word, the next most likely word is based on this giant corpus of human speech that it's got, that it's been trained on. It just is real…”
Dubois: Protective Tariffs Impede Optimal Supply Chain Efficiency
“When we do things like protective tariffs and things like that, I think that that more in is an impedance to that supply chain, that web working the at its most optimal.”
Dubois: IP theft remains a major issue for companies manufacturing in China
“I absolutely am still hearing though, from companies that are my clients that work with that partner with Chinese manufacturing that, that is the intellectual property thing is still a major issue. It's still a big concern where, You know, you hire a Chinese c…”
Dubois: AI yields millions in savings on century-old industrial processes
“One of the things that we are seeing now is that even well-established processes, processes that maybe has been around for a hundred plus years we're able now to apply AI to and find those percentage improvements that equate to millions of dollars.”
Dubois: Industrial reinforcement learning cannot generalize across factory tasks
“And that's really interesting because it learns to build long-term strategy. It can make decisions and things like that, but it's still so narrow. Like it's really capable, but only on the task that it's been trained on. Like if you even just put it on a diffe…”
Dubois: China's Growing Middle Class Will Cause Factory Labor Shortages
“As China gets that, that larger middle-class, I think that we're already seeing that in real time, that even over there, you're going to start to
Struggle to find people who want to go and work in those plants because, you know, they want to do higher value t…”
Dubois: Heavy US regulations push new manufacturing projects offshore
“All the regulatory hurdles and everything that's in place that stands in the way of an entrepreneur trying to start a new factory. I think that that in a lot of ways also drives that offshore.”
Dubois: Some Life Science Companies Lack Factory Floor Data from Offshore Partners
“I work with life science manufacturers who there's actually a lot of offshoring of life science of the actual drug making. And so they have what are called contract manufacturers. And so those life science customers in some cases, it's a little shocking. Somet…”
Dubois: Grid power arbitrage has become crowded and the gold rush is over
“Lots of companies do this now. It's the market is flooded, so you're not gonna make the gold rushes over. But, you know, one of the things that we absolutely, now it's kind of become commonplace to actually shed electricity to the grid.”
Dubois: US manufacturing faces a 500,000-job shortfall per BLS data
“So the last numbers I saw from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was something like a half million person shortfall in the US in unfilled manufacturing jobs.”
Dubois: NIMBY attitudes create major challenges for building US factories
“There's a lot of not in my backyard kind of attitudes sometimes in the United States where, yeah, you know, I don't really want a factory in my state. So I think that that's going to be part of the challenge is finding where you can do this.”
Dubois: Singapore Builds Multi-Story Factories Due to Land Scarcity
“There's actually a ton of manufacturing that happens on the island, which is crazy. I mean, they have to build up, not out because they don't have any land. So you'll have these large buildings where one floor they're making pharmaceutical ingredients. The nex…”