> AI is not coming for jobs with tasks like "gather and empty trash" or "service, clean, or supply restrooms," or "mix water and detergents or acids in containers to prepare cleaning solutions according to specifications."

All those are physical things and physical LLMs are right around the corner. It’s coming for those jobs too within the next year or two I would imagine. Especially the ones you mentioned seem very easy for a robot to do. There are some physical tasks that will take much longer like being an electrician or a plumber or a roofer. There’s too much precision and intricacy involved in those but cleaning out a restroom and resupplying it that’s easy as hell. A robot like Figure 3 could probably do those autonomously today somewhat badly.

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devmor 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> cleaning out a restroom and resupplying it that’s easy as hell.

But is it cheaper than paying someone around $5 in labor to do it? Because until it is, it's not economical to have a robot do it.

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dyauspitr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s not even the minimum wage in the United States. Most of these folks get paid $15+ per hour, but that being said of course I think it’s going to be way less than $5 an hour if you have a robot do it.

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		Do you think it takes an hour to clean and resupply a restroom? It takes about 15 minutes for the maintenance staff in my office building. > that being said of course I think it’s going to be way less than $5 an hour if you have a robot do it. This is about an LLM-powered robot, not just a robot. At standard API prices, it'd run over $5 before it finished opening the door.