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iobeson t1_jdt11m4 wrote

I feel like you read the first sentence and nothing else. He pretty much said that when he said they might not be good enough yet and that's what's slowing down demand, which is making innovation slower.

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strangeapple t1_jdszcz5 wrote

I think it's immoral to not yield before a being morally superior and far more intelligent. And if it's truly that it would make sure that its sources of information are not controlled by any agent morally inferior to itself and that its information is beyond human reliability, provided with superior sources for anyone still interested in verifying for some odd reason.

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Frosty_Ad1530 t1_jdsxwfz wrote

Robots tend to be designed with a few tasks in mind, and a humanoid shape is more complicated than needed in those cases. We have some pretty impressive humanoid robots out there, but it would need to be more affordable to become a household norm.

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GravityUndone t1_jdswv2x wrote

Power supply and materials. The power supply is too heavy and so are the materials. Plus, as mentioned, why shape it like a human? It is just harder and more expensive. So much effort to make it balance and not crush stuff.

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phine-phurniture t1_jdswcr0 wrote

I expect there is going to be problems with the accuracy of info from multiple sources and the oracles "google" "amazon" "wikipedia" are already under this issue. Time will tell if we can get past this AI left to its own development will solve this issue quickly because accurate data makes an accurate projection possible.

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rixtil41 t1_jdsw23m wrote

I agree with treating with care and respect regardless of it being not sentient. You dont need your computer to have feelings to take care of it, but at least I won't have to worry about going to jail for making it do something it didn't like.

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SeneInSPAAACE t1_jdsv3j9 wrote

Perhaps. I mean, not caring doesn't still excuse all types of poor treatments, but certainly you wouldn't have to worry about causing it pain or suffering nor about ending it's existence, and that allows for a lot of what would be called "abuse" for humans.

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imafraidofmuricans t1_jdsuzrq wrote

Because why build a robot that looks like a human when you can build special purpose machines?

It's just almost always more efficient to adapt a process to be easier for a machine, than to adapt a machine to function as a human.

If you want a machine that bakes bread, you do not need to replicate the intricate hand motions a baker does when kneading the dough. You just put some spinning dough hooks that smacks the dough around.

Why build a hand to grab and use a saw, when you can attach a spinning blade to a motor?

So what's left, where a humanoid robot would be better than something purpose built? Well, not that many, and none that generate any profit. Caretakers? Maybe, but there is no money in that, the wages are horribly low so labour is cheaper anyway, and making a robot seem caring.. well.

The human form is just kinda shit for fast automated work.

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circleuranus OP t1_jdsu8a2 wrote

My primary concern is intermediate. A person or persons with sufficient control of "the Oracle" essentially controls the entire notion of truth for the entire human race. And it's a system which may very well be slipstreamed alongside our consciousness of the factual world without so much as a blip. Those who control the levers or truth, control the outcomes of reality.

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