Comment by starkparker
2 days ago
so, so close to having people legitimately and earnestly start saying "we don't serve their kind here" while gesturing to humanoid robots
2 days ago
so, so close to having people legitimately and earnestly start saying "we don't serve their kind here" while gesturing to humanoid robots
Human only "safe spaces" will be a thing. Where they draw the line will be the question.
Southwest Airlines just banned humanoid robots on their flights.[1]
[1] https://aeronauticsmagazine.com/news/no-robots-allowed-south...
The billionaires will still be mostly served by humans, probably former SWEs as the oligarchs will find all this situation amusingly entertaining.
Of course, the're will be a few robot dogs patrolling the fences and hidden behind closets on the rare occasions the servants decide to rebel.
If the morally bankrupt SV techs aren't careful, the line will be "Shoot the damn things on sight", and then there will be a bounty on them.
These bots are going to arrive suddenly and in huge volume. I’m not sure when it will happen, but when it does, it will be extremely fast. The software is basically ready, and the hardware isn’t too far off. The processing latency will be problematic but with local inference improving quickly, this will all come together into the perfect storm for the arrival of the bot army. I don’t think any of us are prepared for it.
No, neither the hardware nor software is anywhere even remotely ready, where by "ready" we mean "safe to share living spaces with unsupervised children and pets without EVER accidentally reducing your toddler to a fine paste, literally a 0% chance". That's the minimum that people will accept, and that's more than ten years away, if it ever happens.
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The software is not basically ready. You’ll see actually good demos long before it’s really ready, and we haven’t seen them yet.
Robot vacuums have been around for a decade now. Some are apparently decent.
Nobody really cares. Robot vacuums are still a single digit % of the vacuum market.
It turns out that saving a few minutes on housework isn't something people are willing to spend thousands, or even hundreds, of dollars on when the cheaper options are more versatile and more robust.
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