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Honda says its newest car factory in China needs 30% less staff thanks to AI & automation, and its staff of 800 can produce 5 times more cars than the global average for the automotive industry. (futurology.today)
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Bringing manufacturing jobs home has been in the news lately, but it's not the 1950s or even the 1980s anymore. Today's factories need far less humans. Global car sales were 78,000,000 in 2024 and the global automotive workforce was 2,500,000. However, if the global workforce was as efficient as this Honda factory, it could build those cars with only 20% of that workforce.

If something can be done for 20% of the cost, that is probably the direction of travel. Bear in mind too, factories will get even more automated and efficient than today's 2025 Honda factory.

It's not improbable within a few years we will have 100% robot-staffed factories that need no humans at all. Who'll have the money to buy all the cars they make is another question entirely.

Details of the new Honda factory.

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Is the tech industry ready for AI 'super agents'? (www.businessinsider.com)
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World's smallest injectable pacemaker powers itself using body fluids. (interestingengineering.com)
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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing. (themarkup.org)
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“AI 2027” Forecast Envisions Superintelligent Systems—and a World on the Brink. (www.nytimes.com)
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EU prepares billion-dollar fine against Twitter/X over disinformation law violations. (www.newsbytesapp.com)
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AI-powered phishing agents have surpassed elite human red teams in crafting effective phishing attacks, a milestone that arguably reshapes the cybersecurity threat landscape. (siliconangle.com)
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It's time to start preparing for AGI, Google says | With better-than-human level AI (or AGI) now on many experts' horizon, we can't put off figuring out how to keep these systems from running wild. (www.axios.com)
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Rivals are rising to challenge the dominance of SpaceX : Startups and legacy aerospace companies alike are aiming to take a chunk out of its launch business. (www.technologyreview.com)
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Tiny robot tools powered by magnets could one day do brain surgery without cutting open the skull. (theconversation.com)
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Robot takes 3D scans from deep within body, could detect cancer early. (interestingengineering.com)
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AI-based method exponentially increases the number of proteins imaged in tissues (phys.org)
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Study shows Russian propaganda outlet leverages AI to amplify content without any loss in persuasive power (phys.org)
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How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars. (phys.org)
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"Long" timelines to advanced AI have gotten crazy short - The prospect of reaching human-level AI in the 2030s should be jarring. (substack.com)
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The AI revolution comes to protein sequencing. - New systems can identify unknown proteins in samples from diseased tissue, the environment, and archaeological sites. (www.science.org)
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The AI revolution comes to protein sequencing - New systems can identify unknown proteins in samples from diseased tissue, the environment, and archaeological sites.

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An AI has been accepted as a student at the Vienna art school that twice rejected Hitler. (www.euronews.com)
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Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion? (www.forethought.org)
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China aims for world's first fusion-fission reactor by 2031 (asiatimes.com)
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Biohybrid and Soft Robotics: Living Machines Changing AI, Healthcare, and Industry (www.forwardfuture.ai)
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Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test (arxiv.org)
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Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production (www.techspot.com)
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Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows. (www.theguardian.com)
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This Demo of KEENON XMAN-R1 Hospitality Service Robots shows us what will be common in the 2030s. (youtu.be)
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Not quite there when it comes to speed just yet, but in another year or two they will be. I'm guessing we'll see robots like this everywhere in the 2030s.

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Why the Future of Dementia May Not Be as Dark as You Think. (time.com)
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