1. I think automation of large productions already is a thing and will likely only accelerate. Maybe too with very precise things. Very new things.

That said, I come back to that a lot of economic activity still takes place outside of those places...with equipment that is decades old and entirely analog or even obsolete. A lot of economic activity takes place in very low tech spaces.s It's the "last mile" concept but maybe more on a "small scale" framework.

Let me give a few examples of things I've done at work recently and tell me where AI would plug in or help out:

1. Walking through our tasting room with my boss he mentioned that "gee, it would be nice if we had a light centered over the bar". Ok, I can do that. Crawl up in the crawlspace above the bar, find the junction box for the other lights and run conduit and romex to the space, cut a hole in the ceiling, install a junction box and a light.

2. Performing a liquid transfer from one tank to another we notice that there's liquid on the floor near the transfer pump. Shut the tanks, walk the liquid outta the lines, disconnect the pump and get out the rebuild kid to replace a blown diaphragm. Test it, reattach, get back to the tank transfer.

3. Distilling. It's the same every day. Grind botanicals, load the still, transfer liquid around the building, fire the boiler, monitor steam, monitor distillate output, etc etc. It involves a lot of connecting and disconnecting. Moving pipes around from this place to that place. Opening and closing valves, etc.

4. Replacing steam fittings on our boiler. We had our boiler pump crankshaft rebuilt and before reinstallation, needed to replace old connections. Pipe wrench / Hammer / clamps / etc.

All of these things are analog too. There's not a digital readout in the place save for our alcohol density meter and 2 flow meters. There's no data port. We parts horde for the boiler because it's no longer in production.

I can see training robotics to do some of this...and maybe I'm woefully outta the loop...but I just don't see something coming in here and doing anything but the very most basic of tasks...and for what benefit?

My other big gripe is that I think huge proponents of AI dramatically undervalue and don't appreciate how much people actually enjoy and want to work. Oh, I'll be freed up to pursue my real passions? My real passion is production ops here. I've had desk jobs and I've had this job and there's nothing that compares (for me and many others) to the satisfaction of completing a complex physical task.

So again, maybe I'm woefully unprepared for what's coming but I can't for the life of me see how some humanoid thing would come in here and compete with what we do on any significant level.