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Average humans are capable of fine manipulation and fast visual recognition at low prices.


Average humans outside the US are capable of the same fine manipulation and fast visual recognition at far lower prices.


Robots are capable of ridiculously fast visual recognition for considerably longer stretches of time than humans.


True, but I think Qworg was instead suggesting that humans are good where the confidence/accuracy of robots drops off. Machine learning tasks usually get to 70% good enough pretty quickly, but after that each percent gain costs more and more. There's a point where humans can complement robots when the robots are not yet good enough to solve the problem.


For simple tasks. Identifying thousands of different products by sight alone in infinite numbers of configurations at varying light levels/obstruction? Humans are best.




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