[dsign]

> While this is pretty cool I believe generalist robots will not have a fraction of the skills an average human has , at least not within a realistically foreseeable timeframe, let’s say within this century.

I'm pretty sure they will be flipping burgers by the 2040s, if not before, and doing everything else needed to efficiently make a (big) percentage of people jobless in first-world economies. Though, not in parts of the world where electricity regularly in the wire is still rare...because those problems don't solve themselves in a few short decades.

Now, we both are cynics and should go for a beer together. Who knows, maybe we will come up with a more catastrophic and highly probable scenario that combines your outlook with mine...

[sjfjsjdjwvwvc]

Oh yea, I would love to be wrong- and if I can’t change my mind about something then I am as good as dead.

I believe we will sooner solve the electricity problem with renewables though.

Agree that a vast majority of the jobs will be automated fairly soon - just not those pesky jobs that really need to be done and no one wants to do - like cooking, cleaning, childcare, taking care of sick people. Sure we will have some more nifty appliances that make it easier maybe, but I want (most of) that stuff fully automated, at least the cleaning part!

Anyway a beer sounds good right about now and we will just have to wait and see how it plays out I guess

[ilaksh]

The Flippy robot came out in 2018.