Hear me out… It’s not because people will retrain although that is an expectation… It’s not because robotics will take the labour. When’s the last time you used AI to diagnose your car, or your boiler, wanted a new plug socket 6ft to the right or a few woodwork shelves putting up… See where I’m going with this? In my country if we took the entire Trade market and focus on the little things, leaky tap, boiler not firing, small ticket jobs and the like as such take up around 14% of the total revenue of trade work whilst also accounting for 25-30% of total jobs. With the advent of AI and a bit of a DIY background I’ve found a lot of the barriers to doing some trade small ticket work is the knowledge or tools. Now we could say YouTube has been around for a while but when your taps leaking you just want it gone… AI brings the knowledge and the tool research instantaneously allowing you to focus on just the practical. This is the same for small jobs like rigging up a small consumer unit, woodwork project and as people learn to self serve only grows their own DIY capability. Why does this low ticket stuff matter? Same way how a graduate software engineer is being replaced with AI is the equivalent for the low ticket work within a trade. Eventually this works its way up the chain, hinders new entrants and dissolves an entire layer of trades. It begs the question why would someone pay a blue collar worker for a low task when you can ask AI. AI isn’t taking the tradesman’s labour in exchange for payment, it’s taking their knowledge and tools leaving them as simply the labourer. submitted by /u/YoureSoWrongMan
Originally posted by u/YoureSoWrongMan on r/ArtificialInteligence
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