• golli@sopuli.xyz
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    Imo one issue is that humanoid robots might be useful in settings where they replace humans in existing structures or work alongside them.

    But for deeper automation you’d want to design workflows from the ground up with robots in mind. And in that case I bet that humanoid robots are hardly ever the optimal solution.

    I think AI might often have the same issue where it speeds up existing, but flawed workflows. Which, when thought up from the ground up, might have a better solution that is a deterministic program. But where AI is fast to throw on a problem and outside of energy comparatively cheap, robots are a much higher investment in a space that usually has lower profit margins than software/services.

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      But for deeper automation you’d want to design workflows from the ground up with robots in mind. And in that case I bet that humanoid robots are hardly ever the optimal solution.

      These are starting to exist: China has “dark factories” where the lights are usually turned off because they function fully automated. Ongoing automation is a thing, truly useful humanoid robots are not. That’s by the way also true for military technology which is often a glimpse into the technical future.

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        Yeah, and it certainly isn’t just china. Tom Scott had this video some years ago by now, that imo is a nice example how different a warehouse could look when it is designed for robots rather than humans.

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    Well, duh… it’s the next techbro “We’ll replace all our workers with <fill in the blank> technology!” wet dream. And just like 99% of techbro projects (such as LLM’s being cast as “AI”) it’s very obviously an unworkable solution propped up by the techbro’s lack of understanding and billions of venture capital from rich but dumb investors.

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    OK roombot, clean under the bed!

    Dude, get out from under bed, I know you’re clean. Clean under the bed!

    Yes, I’m returning my roombot after it broke everything in the house. The broken bed frame still on its back? Yeah, you can keep that.

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    you’re a few months late with that news. The wifi caused the robot to get stuck loading the dishwasher. It was being remotely controlled, then all the stocks tanked real bad the day after. So yeah, that bubble kinda popped a lil over a month ago

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    in order for that exist you need to develop actual “AI” first. in the BSG franchise Cylons were at least in the “canon” of CAPRICA was created from the mind of a dead girl, who was the basis of the cylon consciouness/AI, adding a little “messianic” messaging from another women in thier programming.