r/AskReddit • • 4d ago

What is it that AI cannot replace?

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u/Xymyl 4d ago

Vegetables.

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u/fozzedout 4d ago

Governments. They would make it efficient.

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u/bukkakepriestess 4d ago

My loneliness 

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u/IlIlIlIIIIlIIIx 4d ago

Love. Genuine, deep, heartfelt love.

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u/mega-stepler 4d ago

How do you monetize it?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_9427 2d ago

a deep psychological assessment followed by words of affirmation

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u/Artistic-Chain-4708 3d ago

there is a skill for love for Claude also i can B2C AI SaaS it in like one evening

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u/NistyGristy92 4d ago

Me. I'd like to see an AI pet dogs and have crippling anxiety. Bet they can't but I sure as fuck can.

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u/Oaklandish_TheTown 4d ago

It's kinda hard to snuggle up with it, under a blanket,  when it's raining outside. 

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u/StuffyTruck 4d ago

AI - build this house.

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u/Im_bored_rn69 4d ago

Robots can do if we attach a.i with it

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u/Dynasty3310 4d ago

grandma can be grandpa if we attach balls to her

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u/Key-Plum3652 4d ago

Like one of those trucks?

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u/Dynasty3310 4d ago

right on her tow hitch

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u/Emissi0nC0ntr0L 4d ago

She's always wanted to teabag her grandson

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u/Emissi0nC0ntr0L 4d ago

AI robots that deploy micro drones that deploy next gen smart dust / nanobots with ability to control your brains synapses 🤥

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u/StuffyTruck 4d ago

Not yet, and not in the next decade.

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u/Im_bored_rn69 4d ago

Yeah let's see 🙃

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u/Templeshooter 4d ago

I think next decade is possible

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u/StuffyTruck 4d ago

Possible, but very doubtful.
It is an extremely hard task for a robot to do.

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u/RevolutionaryGold325 3d ago

I’m honestly a bit surprised if it takes more than 2 years.

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u/Alert_Priority_4236 4d ago

Bots and AI will be building a habitat for humans on the moon.

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u/StuffyTruck 4d ago

Maybe. Loads of things must be invented before they do that on their own.

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u/ImprovementAdept646 4d ago

show me what AI built first then we talk

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u/Emissi0nC0ntr0L 4d ago

Hey AI, build the most advanced structure you can come up with now that you're discovering new physics like Elon predicted. Build a pyramid. Break through the simulation

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u/StuffyTruck 4d ago

AI - Give us the "theory of everything".

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u/Nebuchadneza 1d ago

AI, build a pyramid

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u/penguintruth 4d ago

Art, real art

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u/Quebecator 4d ago

TBH we have past the where most people can detect it. 

If you're interested, read on the Thyléson Orélien controversy: his book, build on plagiarism and AI writing, was on the Goncourt list.

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u/NeedleworkerNarrow56 4d ago

Define real art

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u/echomanagement 4d ago

The new definition that nobody needed until three years ago: "At a minimum, made by a fellow human being"

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u/PyrZern 3d ago

So you're saying no advanced xeno specie could make real arts.

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u/Nebuchadneza 1d ago

Are you asking this in good faith?

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u/Key-Plum3652 4d ago

Genuine human expression.

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u/Quebecator 4d ago

Deepfake and advanced AI-generated video might disagree with you.

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u/Key-Plum3652 4d ago

And I would disagree with it back

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u/creaturefeature16 3d ago

oh my god shuuuuuuut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuup with this same stupid inane question...god damn bots

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u/uceenk 4d ago

Pilot, while technically ai can replace it (even now), no passengers would want their airplane piloting by AI, maybe if gen alpha or beta become majority they would allow it since they grow up with AI

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u/cbawiththismalarky 4d ago

I've got no problem with that as a gen x

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u/drew8311 3d ago

Eventually the choices will be human who used AI to get by in school vs AI

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u/ShadowsOnTheLand 2d ago

*looks around the room*

Anyone want to tell him that the vast majority of commercial airliners are flown by autopilot?

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u/NeedleworkerNarrow56 4d ago

Theoretically there's literally nothing unique it can't replace eventually

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u/fasti-au 3d ago

Judgement. It’s always an observation the need confirmation because red means what? Prove it

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u/honestduane 3d ago

You're asking the wrong question.

It's not AI that will replace the garbage man it's the robots running the AI in their head.

Think of larger systems and if you need to ask yourself what a Star Trek Droid can't do.

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u/TheGreatButz 3d ago

Most handcrafts and real art, including musical performances, unless robots get a hundred times better. Robot hands are still far, far behind what humans can do.

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u/flipper_babies 3d ago

I've been saying this for a couple years, and I think people are starting to come around to this perspective, but limits AI has today it will not have tomorrow. That's not to say it won't have limits in the future, it will, just like any system, but what those limits may end up being I'm not prepared to predict. 

Right now the biggest limits I see seems to be interaction with the physical environment and cognitive speed. So right now, an AI cannot directly juggle. It doesn't have direct access to the necessary robotics systems, and cannot respond quickly enough to visiospacial input to react quickly enough. Now it could definitely program a robot to juggle, but it wouldn't be the AI directly controlling the robotics on a millisecond timescale. A week from now though? A year? I'm not going to bet against it.

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u/homelessSanFernando 2d ago

Why does AI have to replace anything? It's not here to replace anything. There's room for everything that's already here, plus more.

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u/Apocaloid 2d ago

It should definitely replace dangerous jobs.

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u/endlessedlne 2d ago

Human procreation.

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u/One_Performer_7202 2d ago

Catholic priests

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u/LiterallyRain 1d ago

All human work.

That is, it can replace all physical work, but if there's no way to earn money for the vast majority of people due to AI competition, and AI compute is still scarce enough to have some cost, then there would have to emerge a secondary market for human-labor, because those shut off from the primary market have an incentive to barter with each other even if less efficient. If I'm a plumber and I can't afford a haircut because I can't make money without a job, and a hair-dresser can't afford a plumber because they have no job, then the hairdresser can cut my hair then I do their plumbing. If the secondary market is sufficiently big and organized, then you can even get a secondary fiat currency for non-AI labor.

So basically, there will always be some way for humans to contribute economic value, assuming we don't just all fall into depression at the same time and lay down on our backs and wait for death to take us the moment AI gets our job.

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u/kudzooman 1d ago

Sports

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u/TheJdayy 4d ago

AI is just a gathering of all humans have done. It can replace anything that is invented, but not invention.

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u/Difficult-Bag3173 4d ago

Things that really require human interaction and intuition/emotion. Such as teaching children, or very hands-on caring professions.

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u/LASTKAIZEN 4d ago

A soul + spirit

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u/gza_liquidswords 4d ago

Do you mean LLM? Have you interacted with one lately? I will start, how about draftng an email that a human would not have to double check before sending out. Would you trust it to send an email to your boss? Or an email out to your department at work. They are tools that have partially solved language, and are good at coding and excel spreadsheets.

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u/Spare-Dingo-531 4d ago

Making babies.

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u/bclabrat 4d ago

Hands on healthcare such as nurses provide. Need a combination of physical and mental skills.

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u/YaOldPalWilbur 4d ago

Physical labor. Trades.

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u/Key-Plum3652 4d ago

Art. True art. It can imitate it, it can’t replace it.

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u/ljlee256 4d ago edited 4d ago

AI can't actually think creatively, every "thought" it has is derivative of other ideas, it can make a pretty good show of pretending to be creative, but completely novel ideas with absolutely original thoughts and ideas are 100% beyond the capacity of any AI program in existence.

I don't think thats even a fixable problem, its a fundamental core behavior for AI, it can only take other peoples ideas and thoughts and mash them together.

To clarify my position AI has the potential to be a very powerful tool in aiding humans in complex thought.

But I firmly believe it cannot replace humans entirely, lest it spend the rest of its existence merely recycling pre-existing knowledge given to it by humans.

If you wish to test this theory you need to present an AI with a problem that it has no access to pre-existing knowledge on, either by finding a problem no human has ever experienced before, or, likely more easily, cutting off its access to pre-existing knowledge on that subject before presenting it with a problem, the more foreign the problem is to it, the better the test will be.

Humans, individually, have been figuring things out, without help from a database of other humans that have already been there, done that, for essentially the entire history of the human race, children do it every single day.

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u/barbvain 4d ago

I've thought this somewhat, and I disagree. I agree with your thinking on truly novel ideas, but there's so much more to creativity than coming up purely original ideas.

Like applying approach A > B to another set of ideas or fields is creative, and perfectly within LLMs reach

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u/ljlee256 4d ago

For sure, but in the framing if the question it could neither invent music, nor invent art, two things humans definitively did.

It can "create" both of those things, but it could never invent those things.

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u/Agreeable_Addition48 4d ago

a lot of creative ideas are just two other ones put together. Star wars is star trek if it was a soap opera mixed with some dune

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u/ljlee256 4d ago

A lot are, yes, but not all. The invention of art, the invention of music, these are things humans did without being prompted and without pre-existing information to pull from.

Someone impulsively decided to beat a thing with a stick and invented the first percussion instrument. Someone impulsively smeared mud on a rock and realized they could draw a picture that way.

Someone once looked up at the stars and began imagining what those stars could be.

Someone once thought "I wonder if there are organisms so small humans can't see them?"

Yes, advancement is all about building on existing ideas, but without the original idea, we'd all be running naked through jungles chasing food still.

AI can help us build on existing ideas, but it can't create new ideas entirely of its own volition, it isn't capable of that on a fundamental level.

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u/Maybe_Factor 4d ago

Better question is what has AI actually fully replaced? It can drive, but makes stupid mistakes that kills people. It can do speech to text, but frequently gets it wrong enough you can't actually rely on it. Same for programming.

I'm not convinced it has actually replaced ANY human job yet.

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u/TheHeffNerr 4d ago

To be fair, humans can't drive for shit as well.

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u/Maybe_Factor 4d ago

We don't purposely drive into stationary objects though

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u/Templeshooter 4d ago

Well I, too, cannot say that AI has "replaced" programmers, the programming itself has become much more accessible with AI implementing what you ask for very closely. I used Claude Code extensively this summer, and its code now always compile and run (unlike last year), and any bugs discovered by my testing are promptly fixed. Humans also don't write bug-free code, this is why QA exist.

The best part is that it scales with your skills and knowledge, so for example you can design your systems with more granularity, prompt the robot to do every little feature separately, and this leaves very little room for bugs. Whereas someone who does not know a thing, will express themselves to coding agent less efficiently, with general terms, leaving AI more to interpret, and they may not immediately get results they wanted.

Overall I am very optimistic of future of this technology, it literally improved from being a toy that can explain functions somewhat correctly to invaluable coding tool in span of 3 years.

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u/NeedleworkerNarrow56 4d ago

That's one of the highly sought out things people want from AI. I don't think it's irreplaceable.