It's there so that all those humans who insist their lives will have no "meaning" without having to work for a living have something to work on for a living.

AI's water usage is a pretty well-known problem with the industry.

it vastly simplifies cleaning up when they start purging their human overlordsunderlings

The dishwasher (robot) is insufficiently subservient. That's why you have to put LLMs in all the things. So it can say "That's such a good idea! You are so clever for thinking of that" when you start it.

Always reminds me of this bit on the Conan O'Brien show.

This comic is clearly about the plumber occupation and about jobs as a whole and not simply a dishwasher.

This is accurate. People are conflating plumbing, with the act of installing, and maintaining plumbing. It doesn't help that the act of maintaining the plumbing (noun) is called plumbing (verb).

But people don't want to have to hire a plumber to fix the plumbing when it is not doing what it is supposed to.

They want "AI" to do it. Except that such a thing would require advanced robotics more than "AI". With advanced (and affordable) robotics, the plumber wouldn't need to actually go to your house, they could just remotely control the plumber bot from the comfort of their home, or from a central office or something. The person that shows up with the bot can be little more than a minimum wage delivery driver. Deliver the bot, make sure it powers on, make sure nobody steals or destroys it, then pack it up and move on when it's done. The highly paid plumbers never have to go anywhere, and can basically hop from one bot to the next. While they're working on one job, a bot is already en route to their next job, and ready to go when they finish with the current job.

We've adapted art and communication to the Internet. We have not done the same for plumbing (the verb). So expecting something that you can't even currently do with a computer, to now basically be done by AI, which is confined to the restrictions of a digital-only environment, is foolish at best.

Since we adapted communication and art to digital media already, it's almost trivial to have that generated by "AI".

We need to build a robot capable of the work before we can do anything more here.

No, like the whole thing. Find where I left the dishes, scrape off the crumbs into the trash, tetris the dishes into the dishwasher, load an appropriate amount of fluids, [do current capability], unload the dishes to dry, then put them away in their normal spots.

Yes. They're really underrated. They consume way less water than almost all humans dishwashing, less energy if the human uses warm water to do the dishes, and work better if they aren't clogged.

Look up minutefood or technology connections about it on youtube

They chose literally the only widely-adopted home robot. 😆

I don't know about other people, but me personally I don't compose music for other people to hear, I do it for myself.

If plumbing was actually standard enough we could automate 90% of it. On good news art isn't that much standard either so robots will go away soon.

Really the best part of this comic is that the robot has sentience and has arms.

so do most humans, yet plumbers still exist.