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[–]Bigs[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Have you seen what AI can already do?

There's no such thing as a job safe from it. The Palm-E (E for embodied, ie a robot) can already understand 3D environments from a 2D photo, and navigating around and doing things in actual 3D is easy for it. Right now they're playing with RD2 type crap with a single arm, but humanoid 2 legged designs will be extremely easy with an AI brain that understands its environment and it's own physique.

They're already saying at least one of the AIs have an IQ of 114, ie noticeably smarter than a normal human for cognitive tasks. Give this tech a couple of years from now and we could have robots smarter, faster, more flexible, more accurate and more affordable than a human janitor, and able to be updated with apps to learn any new role or task.

This is all coming online way faster than even the designers ever expected, and because some have launched others are launching too, triggering an AI arms race.

It's gonna be a wild ride. I hope the outcome is positive, but I'm pessimistic by nature...