Comment by ActionHank
1 year ago
The stupidest thing about ai and automation is that they are trying to target it at large corporations looking to cut down on jobs or 10x productivity when all anyone actually wants is a robot to do their laundry and dishes.
these are almost entirely unrelated problems
Because a robot that do everyone's laundry is much more closer to AGI than ChatGPT. I'm dead serious.
Not really. You don't need to move wet clothes from the first machine to a second machine if you get one machine that does both jobs. That's very much not AGI. The second job, of taking dry crumpled clothes and folding them, also doesn't need an artificial general intelligence. It's very computationally expensive (as evidenced by the speed of https://pantor.github.io/speedfolding/, out of UC Berkeley) and a hard robotics question, but it's also very fixed function.
Taking the clothes out of the combined washer dryer machine, my laundry folding robot isn't suddenly going to need to come up with a creative answer to a question I have about politics in order to fold the laundry, or come up with a new way to organize my board game collection, or reason about how to refactor some code. There are no logical leaps of reasoning or deep thinking required. My laundry folding robot doesn't need to be creative in order to fold laundry, just application of some very complex algorithms, some of which have yet to be discovered.
You're describing a dish-washer and washing-machine.
The GP is almost certainly describing a robot that can move dirty stuff into the machines, run them, and put away the clean stuff afterwards.