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Honest_Switch1531 t1_j6kjw5n wrote

Reply to comment by Beatboxamateur in What jobs will be one of the last remaining ones? by MrCensoredFace

Child care workers are some of the lowest paid workers around. The quality of your average child care worker is very low. I would trust a good robot over a poorly trained 20yo any day

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Ashamed-Asparagus-93 t1_j6ks1ui wrote

Same because the bot can just call you if something goes wrong or have live video so you can check in without having boring conversations with the sitter

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Beatboxamateur t1_j6l9ymn wrote

I'm counting mothers/parents in this too(although there are also a lot of shit parents), but the general idea still stands, that babies/young children need human input to learn language and basic communication skills. Your entire personality is formed in your early formative years, and that's heavily dictated how you were raised, what kind of body and facial expressions you acquired via the people around you, as well as language. I don't think it'll be so easy for AIs to replace mothers and other people who raise young children. I wasn't referring specifically to the work itself, just the importance of the human interaction.

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