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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the jobs AI is going to replace

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They already make machines to do repetitive pipetting, it's just that humans are cheaper and more widely usable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Our lab's auto pipetter is broken about 60% of the time, most days we just shut it off and reroute specimens to the workbenches to do it by hand because it's faster than attempting to fix it or call customer service. Maybe once the good-for-nothing customer service repair phone line is replaced by AI it will actually function and be worth the half a million dollars we spent on this stupid machine, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am meaning more than just the piping as AI is starting to observe now too. Read here the other day that an AI is researching new materials unassisted in a lab.