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NVIDIA To Reportedly Release "Jetson Thor" Computers By Next Year, Marking The Beginning Of "Robotic AI" Era (wccftech.com)
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[โ€“] BananaTrifleViolin 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The issue with this technology is that it will be perfected eventually. There are not fundamental blocks to general AI or robotics. Instead there are engineering issues to resolve and improve to make the technology viable.

It's not a question of if, but when. And the real problem is that society is in no way ready for this revolution. Humans will be redundant in such a world and that undermines the whole system we live under today.

Whoever owns the machines will own the world if we continue in the capitalist model. And humans will become totally redundant and have no value.

Politicians are totally ignorant about this looming revolution. They look at AI and robotics as similar to the industrial revolution where the technology did not replace people but allowed people to do more and new things, and revolutionised the world.

But AI and robotics will replace people when it matures. The current terrible inequality risk being entrenched with the billionaire class exerting power using out of date ideas of property ownership to control everything. Meanwhile most people will be nothing more than serfs with no skills or resources to offer for a wage nor to compete with the machines and become wealthy.

It could be a utopia if handled properly but at the moment we look like we're heading for the worst possible dystopia.

[โ€“] Alphane_Moon 2 points 6 days ago

While I agree with your general sentiment, particularly around oligarch corruption of body politic, I get the impression that there are many fundamental technical challenges with respect to both AI and robotics.

I don't really see current approaches to "AI" being perfected to "AGI" as outlined in their marketing/PR releases. I don't even think we are even close. There is a strong incentive to overplay current capabilities or even viability of current approaches to raise investor funds.

With respect to robotics, outside of industrial use cases (and there is a lot of cool stuff happening here that does not get much news reporting), humanoid robots are heavily limited by battery capacity and the inherent challenge of mechanical system.

I am not saying these challenges can't be overcome, but as things stand right now, it seems to be mostly PR and/or pet projects for specific oligarchs.