Isaac Asimov wrote in 1953, in "The Caves of Steel", about how Earth's population would harbour deep resentment and fear toward mass produced robots. An anti-robot sentiment rooted in the belief that robots are taking jobs away from humans and that their increasing presence threatens human autonomy and livelihood.
In his opinion, robots, AI, could not harm us because we would hardcode unbreakable fail-safes. Then cyberpunk came, telling us we're not going to do that, there will be no unbreakable lock.
I really like Asimov, but I don't think we're heading to the future he predicted, I think cyberpunk offered more plausible scenarios. So, androids, cyborgs, I'm really not sure I'm going to like them.
Sources: The caves of Steel, Her (2013), Westworld (2016), Matrix (1999), Caprica (2009), Ghost in the Shell (1995)
I'm really not sure that androids, cyborgs are going to like us. People wave their hands and say an artificial general intelligence is still decades away. Perhaps. And there is evidence the rate of progress using current training techniques is slowing but... new techniques may yield rapid gains. By the time we realise the singularity is achievable it will already have been achieved. And all of a sudden we are no longer the alpha predator...
I don't know what to think of AGI. When it means AI outperforming us in any field it seems believable, but when it means sentient AI, it implies boostrapping consciousness. Yet we don't even understand what consciousness is...
It's not clear we were built to be conscious either. It just sort of happened.
This is like the question of whether there is alien intelligence. Either life is easy to generate given reasonable conditions and large period of time and is scattered all over the universe, or it is not.
It's always difficult to make predictions based on a sample of 1.
Once they become affordable, I'd definitely get one. No more cleaning dishes, laundry, sweeping or mopping, etc? Say no more I'm in. I can focus on things that actually matter or just use it for more recreational time.
They're much closer. I think in 5 years you'll see them rolled out and the 10-15 years they would be relatively normalized in peoples homes. So accurate estimate in my opinion.
When I was little my parents made us watch Battlestar Galactica (Along with every other anti-ai movie ever made) to warn us about the dangers of AI. They would so disown me if then even knew I played around with AI online. 🤣
They're pointless mostly, think about the cost which will be tons, things that can go wrong, you compare all that to just buying a dishwasher... You compare that to just having one of those small vacuum bots... You compare that to a coffee machine... Basically all the tech we have now does everything it can for cheaper and less worry. And for the time it takes to do small other tasks is it worth how much a fully humanoid machine would be? Cause it's going to be more than all these in total
No I would not this seems like a trap to me. We take so much for granted as is. I love hanging my cloths outside to dry. I love cooking dinner with the love in my heart and having a mess to clean up after, I love knowing if I dont wash the dishes no one will... its about accountability. I think when robots do everything for us there will be no point in existing
If everything is always fun, easy and comfortable life is boring. Fun is only fun in comparison to whats not fun.
Duality is how people have no energy at work on Friday, but come 5pm they come to life and can party all night into Saturday...
In seriousness , I could do with some help , now you are kinda assuming it's not smart , Id use it to help cook , clean , bookwork ( QuickBooks ) , advice , sounding board , and probably much more as I got going.
Sure , Id love to have one , and have been looking on Alibaba.
Companies are already buying elon's robots for their new employees. But private citizens are planning to buy the robots and have them go to their jobs at night. So your robot works for you all day and then goes off to its night job. You collect the paycheck and use it to pay off your robot payments.
I don't think it would know how to do laundry in my apartment building.
It would have to pay $10 for the card to operate the machines.
Then it would have to have a bank card and load some money onto the laundry card they bought and only when it has completed all of the procedures could it do my laundry for me.
The great thing about humanoids is that we are built to be fairly good at lots of things. We don't need robots to be fairly good at lots of things. We can own lots of robots that are each very good at specific things. You don't vacuum your floor with the same machine you drive to work in. By and large robots will be special purpose. The only real need for a humanoid I can think of is as an... errrr... companion.
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It will be when they can create one that can have realistic sex. If the manufacturer can reach a certain price point , sales will take off. I think it will be within ten years.
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