This is called "watching YouTube tutorials". We've had it for decades.

But what if there's no YouTube tutorial for the exact AC unit you have and it doesn't look like any of the videos you checked out?

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cess11 4 months ago | parent | next [-]

Have you met people that seem to be able to fix almost anything?

If you can't get a tutorial on your exact case you learn about the problem domain and intuit from there. Usually it works out if you're careful, unlike software.

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semi-extrinsic 4 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Then you are equally fucked as the AI will be, so no difference.

Case in point, I remember about ten years ago our washing machine started making noise from the drum bearing. Found a Youtube tutorial for bearing replacement on the exact same model, but 3 years older. Followed it just fine until it was time to split the drum. Then it turned out that in the newer units like mine, some rent-seeking MBA fuckers had decided more profits could be had if they plastic welded shut the entire drum assembly. Which was then a $300 replacement part for a $400 machine.

An AI doesn't help with this type of shit. It can't know the unknown.

	▲	deepGem 4 months ago \| parent [-]
		But once it knows it’s pretty certain to become common knowledge almost instantaneously. That’s not possible now. What you learn stays localised to you and may be people 1 degree away from you that’s it.