| ▲ | ziofill 2 days ago |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | 01100011 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | mmh0000 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | vessenes 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | A robot will definitely cost less than $30/hr eventually. But you'll be running it a lot more than a few hours every other week. | |
| ▲ | ziofill 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, but a robot will work 24/7, not 2h byweekly -_- | | |
| ▲ | mclau156 2 days ago | parent [-] | | do you need a robot to work in your house 24/7? | | |
| ▲ | ziofill 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Well perhaps not at night, but otherwise there’s always something to clean, something to fix, something to cook, take care of the yard.. heck I might need two robots ^^’ | |
| ▲ | gigel82 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why not? If it's done with all the chores, I can have it make some silly woodworking / art project for Etsy to earn its keep, or just loan it out to neighbors. | | |
| ▲ | ben_w a day ago | parent [-] | | In the same way it's hard to earn money from using AI to make art, I don't see Etsy projects made by affordable domestic robots selling above cost. |
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| ▲ | dartos 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hopefully in the next decade we’ll get there. Vision+language multimodal models seem to solve some of the hard problems. |
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| ▲ | abraxas 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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%. |
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| ▲ | ben_w a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I'd expect Musk and Bezos to know about von Neumann replicators; factories that make these robots staffed entirely by these robots all the way to the mines digging minerals out of the ground… rapid and literally exponential growth until they hit whatever the limiting factor is, but they've both got big orbial rockets now, so the limit isn't necessarily 6e24 kg. | |
| ▲ | ewjt 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oligarchs would use the robots to kill people instead of a pandemic. A virus carries too much risk of affecting the original creators. Fortunately, robotic capability like that basically becomes the equivalent of Nuclear MAD. Unfortunately, the virus approach probably looks fantastic to extremist bad actors with visions of an afterlife. |
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| ▲ | siavosh 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What do humans do best? |
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| ▲ | jayd16 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Everything everything else is worse at. | |
| ▲ | ein0p 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Browse Instagram, apparently. | |
| ▲ | ziofill 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean to use their time to pursue their passions and interests, not cleaning up the kitchen or making the bed or doing laundry... | | |
| ▲ | hooverd 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Given time to "pursue their passions and interests", most people chose to turn their brain to soup on social media. | | |
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| ▲ | cess11 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | int_19h 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Because it's boring and tedious. And no, a robot is not a slave. |
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