The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

More of my work for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI

@royaards Very poignant.

It would take the edge off the comment, but you could probably get away with a sign painter outside battling the elements to work on a shopfront. It could even be for a so-called-AI company!

@royaards

Saw it this morning on paper... and that on a mondaymorning after #fosdem .... ough.

@royaards

Like doing it the wrong way around, you mean?

😬

@royaards

Bender took the good jobs. 😩

@Gooberific @royaards At least they chose Bender for the cartoon! If I have to be replaced by a robot, I'd be fine with being it Bender.

@Aschniedermann @royaards

:0

Didn't he want to "kill all humans" vs taking our jobs?

@Gooberific @royaards you’re right. Although he seemed pretty arranged with the world as it was.

@Aschniedermann @royaards

We need to be his Fry-bestie so he doesn't kill us. πŸ™

Remember to always say thabk you after using the LLM

@royaards we are entering the transition economy, it's a system where AI hasn't yet taken all jobs but it has completely wiped out all office related work, within the next decade robotics will have caught up and then the manual labor jobs will start to go, around that time is when we will see a CBDC stipend. But along the way to that we could see wage growth in many manual labor and skilled trades, being a blue collar worker in the next 5 years will be like being a finance grad in the 90s.
@royaards the future of orange economy?

@royaards

This is almost correct. The part where the bots produce seemingly good art and output is wrong, tho.

This is the saddest part.

If we were in a society where we, as humans, would have been *advantageously* replaced by machines, I would see the tragedy, but I would personally also see and appreciate the rationale.

But the bots are producing slop that is worse than the most nauseating output from the most insipid, unscrupulous, most prolific greed driven plagiarist on steroids... 😭

@royaards try to get 800+ boosts on ms linkedin har har
@royaards The problem is that most artificial intelligence research and development has been working top-down instead of bottom-up so far. We have cracked most of the things that seem like hard intellectual problems to us humans, like playing chess or painting pictures or solving protein folding, but AI still can't do the things any trained rat can do. It's as if we were building a house starting at the roof.
@LordCaramac @royaards this! And: while there are toilet-cleaning and brick-laying robots available now (I won't call it AI powered because opencv with pattern recognition should be enough for this), they're expensive and it's still cheaper to exploit humans for those jobs. Yay capitalism \o/
@royaards Nah AI and Robots will eventualy replacve also the rest . And we will be happy when we dont end up as soylent green for the rich
@royaards Its true, AI sucks at the tasks that run the world!
@royaards Moravec's paradox at work. Things we considered easy turned out to be hard, while things we considered hard turned out to be easy. Hopefully it will change, as more effort is put into robotics.
@royaards
The least realistic thing on this picture for me seems to be the light-pink color of three out of four of people doing the undervalued, low-qualification jobs.
@royaards if only it were a joke: https://rentahuman.ai/
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks

The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

RentAHuman.ai
@dckc @royaards how do we know it is not a joke? I understand "robots'd be expensive, so humans" but still.
@dckc @royaards Somebody owns the site. He is hiring.