Efforts to automate more US factories come as companies in East Asia have already charged ahead in establishing multiple “dark factory” sites—facilities featuring near-complete automation with a small human staff to provide oversight and troubleshooting.
AI is accelerating automation, to the point where you can automate all processes that don’t require human involvement. This is why China is currently ahead of the US. They have been strategic and pragmatic in their use of AI instead of focusing solely on achieving AGI.
The US is catching up to China. This means that Trump’s “dream” of bringing plants back to the U.S. to create jobs for Americans will not be realized because they will simply build these “dark factories.”
You are so wrong I dont have simple words to describe it.
I’m a controls engineer who literally installs automation systems. AI is mostly useless in our industry, Claude barely scratches the surface of what we do. The coding is somewhat simple. The problem is how difficult the physical interaction is.
Having worked with Chinese controls people, they arent any better than the US engineers often they are significantly worse. No idea why. The guys from Mexico are way better from my experience.
the Mexicans have their shit together. they’re always great to work with, and they’re competent. best factory I’ve ever been in was in Mexico. place was spotless.
I’m not talking about Claude, I’m talking about the different machine learnings algorithms, not talking about LLMs. AI just became an umbrella term for all these different types and machine learning algorithms.
And even with war, I kept hearing something like, “China may have the manpower and even the firepower, but they haven’t fought a war in decades. The US has plenty of experience,” but experience in what? Losing in the Middle East?
I was hearing about dark sites about a decade ago. Wonder why it took so long. Probably because we don’t want to starve too many blue collar families at once.
AI is accelerating automation, to the point where you can automate all processes that don’t require human involvement. This is why China is currently ahead of the US. They have been strategic and pragmatic in their use of AI instead of focusing solely on achieving AGI.
The US is catching up to China. This means that Trump’s “dream” of bringing plants back to the U.S. to create jobs for Americans will not be realized because they will simply build these “dark factories.”
You are so wrong I dont have simple words to describe it.
I’m a controls engineer who literally installs automation systems. AI is mostly useless in our industry, Claude barely scratches the surface of what we do. The coding is somewhat simple. The problem is how difficult the physical interaction is.
Having worked with Chinese controls people, they arent any better than the US engineers often they are significantly worse. No idea why. The guys from Mexico are way better from my experience.
the Mexicans have their shit together. they’re always great to work with, and they’re competent. best factory I’ve ever been in was in Mexico. place was spotless.
I’m not talking about Claude, I’m talking about the different machine learnings algorithms, not talking about LLMs. AI just became an umbrella term for all these different types and machine learning algorithms.
No way the US is catching up to China. They are far ahead in everything except weapons and war.
And even with war, I kept hearing something like, “China may have the manpower and even the firepower, but they haven’t fought a war in decades. The US has plenty of experience,” but experience in what? Losing in the Middle East?
A losing fight is still a teacher. Still, I don’t think the current DoD can put down its hubris and adjust for modern war seen in Iran or Ukraine.
I was hearing about dark sites about a decade ago. Wonder why it took so long. Probably because we don’t want to starve too many blue collar families at once.
Yeah that’s… probably not why.