While the simplest and most routine factory jobs—quality control and simple assembly-line tasks—will likely be automated in the coming years, the remainder of these manual labor tasks will be tougher for robots to take over. This is because the intelligent automation of the twenty-first century operates differently than the physical automation of the twentieth century. Put simply, it’s far easier to build AI algorithms than to build intelligent robots. Core to this logic is a tenet of artificial intelligence known as Moravec’s Paradox.
