Der humanoide Roboter von Helix wurde aktualisiert, um verallgemeinerte Haushaltsaufgaben auszuführen, für die er zuvor noch nicht geschult wurde.

Is that figure 2 or a new robot?

I’m ready for this. As long as they can make the robot NOT squish all those cookies.

Keep telling people, maybe they will start to understand soon, but it is likely already too late.

There is no job, no profession, no skill or talent, which will not be affected by AI. These are just the first embodiments of AI. What is already in the works, in the labs, will come to the cities and countrysides, to all tasks, for the richest who can afford them in months and in years, most humans will be obsolete.

The problems we need to solve now are not technologically related. Instead, we need for people to wake up, and make decisions. Should we have an age of abundance for the billionaires, soon to be trillionaires, at the expense of everyone and our children for generations to come OR should we have an age of abundance, a renaissance of creativity and comfort for everyone? As thing are, it seems the decision was made for us. The obscenely wealthy strategically acquired almost all land, all natural resources, properties and businesses and assets, the labor and intellectual achievement of hundreds of millions of other people „beneath“ them. And then they commandeered governments. While the first generation of trillionaires may be good and generous and return a fraction of what they took, it’s clear what supreme wealth and power does to humans, the next generation will wield their power and resources to assure they gain even more, no matter the cost to those beneath them.

I too was once young, naive, and truly excited about technological achievements. I still am, excited about advances in technology, but life and encounters with the uber rich and their circles gave me wisdom. Those types, they have insatiable greed. And each generation of them has become greedier. They will take everything from you, and then cut you out, they will watch co-workers, children, neighbors, and communities descend into dire poverty and still want for more. I’ve seen co-workers die in poverty after making executives millions. For myself, I’ve made tens of millions for the rich, and they still sell what I created, and still grow richer, but they cut me out to avoid trickling it back down to me. Now, I finance my groceries to feed my children and also my parents, who suffered similar. The wealthy have proven to me over decades, and through generations of them, that they have no interest in actually helping society. They were born into it, steeped in it, the idea that they are entitled to all we do and create, for them. And when they use us up, they toss us aside. And when they no longer need the next generation because we’ve created thinking machines for them, they will eliminate the humans that they view as liabilities, pests, pollutants, drains on their abundance of land, resources, and more. We know this because we can see history, we can see current world events, we can see their actions and most importantly their outcomes. Their words and sales pitches are just that, lies, to achieve the outcomes they have.

So no. We don’t fear the technology, we just KNOW what those with obscene wealth already are going to do with the technology.

I know Figure have said they are targeting 2027 for domestic bots and theres at least one other company with a similar timescale.

And looking at that new video I think they will be there or there about. First generation ones are clearly going to be a bit slow but that hardly matters when you set the task and walk away.

At that point the only thing keeping any jobs safe will be the remaining refinement needed to allow a domestic customer to grab plumber.exe off the app store in 2 – 4 years time. That’ll be it for the services jobs everyone thinks will be safe, the industrial ones are already starting to be directly replaced and the white collar jobs will start going around the same time.

The whole basis of the social contract is going to have to swing round to governments basing their income on extracting value from the AI and robots somehow to spread around society so that as they scale, and then make the economy larger than it could ever be under human labour alone that society actually benefits. I’ve not seen another way to address it.

I personally believe we are still a VERY long way away from this.

The video is cool and all, but… This to me looks like a video from 20 years ago where they showed a car „self-driving“ already, and we all got excited.

And we didn’t really notice that the car that was driving was one single, super customized car, on a single, oval shaped track, in perfect weather and perfect lighting, with no other traffic, no pedestrians, and all it had to do was drive repeatedly in that one oval. And here we are, 20 years later, and… still no self driving cars.

Those robots are VERY slowly doing incredibly trivial tasks in a super controlled environment after that demo was painstakingly set up by engineers for those super specific scenarios.

Something as simple as adding two more grocery items, or moving the fridge 3 inches, or any even TINY change there would certainly completely break the demo.

We are a loooong way from these being household robots.

guess i should start learning how to hunt and gather since robots will have careers ….

I like how the intro took longer than it would have taken for a human to put away the groceries