There’s nothing I want more than a robot that does house chores. That’s the real 10x multiplier for humans to do what they do best.

I'd pay $2k for something that folds my laundry reliably. It doesn't need arms or legs, just like my dishwasher doesn't need arms or legs. It just needs to let me dump in a load of clean laundry and output stacks of neatly folded or hung clothing.

It's called a "house cleaner" and they only cost ~$150 (area and all varies) bi-weekly. I'll shit a brick (and then have the robot clean it up) if a robot is ever cheaper than ~$4000/yr.

Hopefully in the next decade we’ll get there.

Vision+language multimodal models seem to solve some of the hard problems.

To me this is such a weird wish. Why would you not want to care for your home and the people living there? Why would you want to have a slave taking these activities from you?

I'd rather have less waged labour and more time for chores with the family.

Yeah, except that future doesn't need us. By us I mean those of us who don't have $1B to their name.

Do you really expect the oligarchs to put up with the environmental degradation of 8 billion humans when they can have a pristine planet to themselves with their whims served by the AI and these robots?

I fully anticipate that when these things mature enough we'll see an "accidental" pandemic sweep and kill off 90% of us. At least 90%.

What do humans do best?