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by blooalien 29 days ago
> "Well, I can still ride a unicycle blindfolded better than a robot so it's not AGI."

Can you though? I've seen some videos recently of some pretty darn scary Chinese robots that I suspect might already be capable of riding a unicycle blindfolded if someone set 'em on that task. ;)
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lukan 29 days ago
Can you link those videos? What I have seen was impressive but far from "riding a unicycle blindfolded". But with time can be surely done. Also yes, there are likely not many humans who can do it, but most could learn it.
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blooalien 29 days ago
Here's one from a few months ago -> Kungfu robots (o.o) https://youtu.be/UKLvMLtNXpE

You can search and find tons more like that on your favorite YouTube frontend. :)

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cwbuilds 29 days ago
I can't even ride a bike so I got AGI'd about a decade ago
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captainbland 29 days ago
Yeah this idea that the unique value proposition of humans is now our motor capabilities rather than our cognition is unnerving as someone with dyspraxia. Like, oh good, they've figured out how to convert it into a much more limiting disability by commoditising apparently most knowledge work. Great.
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tavavex 29 days ago
If all the AI booster dreams come true with nothing slowing them down, the value proposition for an average human will change to, in this order:

1. At least humans can still do highly specialized physical work

2. At least humans are cheap to run on low-value hard labor tasks

3. At least humans are desperate and highly expendable, in some types of work it's cheaper to 'use one up' and replace them with another than to run and constantly repair robots

4. Humans are useless for all work and therefore have no value

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blooalien 29 days ago
> "4. Humans are useless for all work and therefore have no value"

The part that worries me is when some clown with way too much money and power and time on their hands accidentally really does tip a machine over into AGI and the machines figure this little detail out for themselves... You want "Terminator IRL"? Because that's how you get "Terminator / SkyNet IRL"...

Maybe we can live-stream it all on Pay-Per-View once it starts, to make the ultra-rich idiots who ended us all just a little bit richer before the end, as I'm pretty sure some folks out there actually would pay to watch live-stream feeds of the ensuing apocalypse right up until the machines come to kick their door in too.

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