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What task are humans still better at than AI?

Humans still outperform AI in conceiving and setting up complex machining jobs, despite advances in co-bots and automation. Machining, which produces virtually all physical objects, requires human skill to initiate automation, and generalized robots capable of designing new parts from scratch remain far off.

read1 min publishedJun 13, 2026

CAD / CAM & Machining. Co-bots help tremendously at the present, and once a job is 'running' it's very automateable, but getting a job to that point of automation takes tremendous human skill and efforts. Machining touches every physical thing around you. There exists huge potential for more machine learning and automation with coming generations of robotics and edge computation, yet we are a long ways from generalized robots and embodied "AI" that are be able to conceive a new part or whole machine from its parts and make it out of mill stock. LLMs alone will never accomplish that frontier.

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