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Google DeepMind's ALOHA (A Low-cost Open-source Hardware System for Bimanual Teleoperation) for humanoid robots, suggests robots might become widespread sooner than we think. (www.inceptivemind.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] Lugh 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There have been many indications lately that the current boom in AI is feeding through to robotics, and rapidly advancing their development. This is another sign of that. The article references "your household robot" - but I wonder if this tech will show up in work environments sooner? It looks like it's almost ready for a wide range of unskilled or semi-skilled manual work.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It looks like it's almost ready for a wide range of unskilled or semi-skilled manual work.

Humans Need Not Apply - CGP Grey

We may finally be entering the Humans Need Not Apply era. I think this has the potential to be beneficial for society in the long-term, but there will be a transition period that we will need to handle carefully.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Man, I love CGP Grey.

It's also kind of interesting to see how the predictions have changed, 10 years on. We're still worried about the basic idea, but it seems less imminent, and there may be a period where blue collar workers fare the best. CGP thought blue collar workers would be replaced; in present tense, even.

Case in point, Baxter was discontinued in 2018. Word on the street is that he sucked, and the demonstrations were very produced. Self driving cars "were there", but they didn't "work" like he said; not a very important few percent of the time, anyway.