If you're confused about how the hell AI is going to make the kind of money needed to turn a profit, I'll illustrate

[MineralMan]

20. That's very interesting, but I think there is a flaw in that

concept that can't be ignored. If human beings are required to do the actual work of turning a big project into reality, one thing that absolutely has to be taken into consideration is the general laziness of human beings. Go visit a project as simple as building a nice home on a lot for people to buy and live in. On a small scale, that is the same as building the largest project you can imagine. Individual humans work together in small groups to do the actual physical work in building that project. Standing nearby will be other human beings whose job it is to make sure the paid workers are doing the job efficiently and properly. Take those people away and that house is going to leak, lean, or fall down long before it should. Why, because people are lazy in their work and take whatever shortcuts they can invent to do it the fastest, easiest way possible. And that's almost never the proper way.

So the AI does everything about the supply chain and finding people to do the work. It brings all of those things together, and what happens. Basically nothing, without the supervisors who tell all those workers what to do, when, and how to do it properly. Then, after the work is done, it gets inspected and redone if there are errors. Where do those supervisors come from and how does the AI system know which ones are good and will get the work done properly?

Where do they come from? Well, they're self-generating. They all start out doing the actual work, which they learn to do properly and efficiently. They get noticed by the supervisors they work under and begin to get supervisory assignments because they know WTF they're doing. Years later, they are picking out other workers who are capable of becoming supervisors.

That is one thing no AI system will ever be able to do: Supervise human workers. Because AI cannot do anything the workers can do, so it cannot learn how to supervise workers. AI has no eyes, hands, feet or ears. It has no way of knowing the quality of what is under construction. That requires human experience and intelligence. Did that framer use the correct fasteners and enough of them? Were they installed correctly. AI has no idea. It can only assume so.

The only people AI can replace are on the supply side of projects and top level organization and planning. After that, real humans have to take over, because the AI lives in dataspace and has no knowledge of physical reality. It just has descriptive models of that, but has never experienced the reality of any of those models.

And so it goes, on and on...