True if you are just looking at automation being a machine following through a set of pre-programmed instructions
However artificial intelligence and the ability to develop machine intellect will throw all of that out of the window
nikka I'm gonna have to go deep on this:
Unfortunately we are still thousands of years (if that early) away from even basic AI being usable in the real world.
If you look at the Japanese androids made they STILL have predictable emotional expressions and responses to everyday stimuli. The reality is humans everyday have unpredictable reactions to everyday stimuli AND our reactions evolve as continuously exposed.
I just can't see AI being able to replicate our intelligence which is factored in by things you cannot simulate such as hormone level fluctuation and most importantly DNA evolution.
The key to developing an android which is most human like is to simulate the mitochondria itself from a cybernetic perspective. I imagine that would require increase in nanotechnology which is extremely expensive.
It will be light years before humans can enable an artificially created being to have something as an everyday simple thing we take for granted: an orgasm...
It requires hundreds of hormones produced, and all in synchronization. You have to replicate the internal organs of a human, the brain alone won't be enough.
Another thing is a lot of business decisions are made on primal instinct rooting back millions of years. This data will be nearly impossible to port over into any AI being and they are essentially starting from scratch, the beginning of "their" evolution. How can we overcome that gap?