[z0r]

Call me when 'AI' cook meals in our kitchens, repairs the plumbing in our homes and removes the trash from the curb.

Automation has costs and imagining what LLMs do now as the start of the self-improving, human replacing machine intelligence is pure fantasy.

[NitpickLawyer]

To say that this is pure fantasy when there are more and more demos of humanoid robots doing menial tasks, and the costs of those robots are coming down is ... well something. Anger, denial (you are here)...

[reaperducer]

To say that this is pure fantasy when there are more and more demos of humanoid robots doing menial tasks

A demo is one thing. Being deployed in the real world is something else.

The only thing I've seen humanoid robots doing is dancing and occasionally a backflip or two. And even most of that is with human control.

The only menial task I ever saw a humanoid robot do so far is to take bags off of a conveyor belt, flatten them out and put them on another belt. It did it at about 1/10th the speed of a human, and some still ended up on the floor. This was about a month ago, so the state of the art is still in the demo stage.

[z0r]

I'm waiting. You're talking to someone who believed that self-driving vehicles would put truckers out of work in a decade right around 2012. I didn't think that one through. The world is very complicated and human beings are the cheapest and most effective way to get physical things done.