A Thought-Provoking Question About the Current Direction of Robotics
This image presents a critical observation regarding the current trajectory of artificial intelligence and robotics development. The text questions why modern technological advancements are primarily focused on automating administrative tasks, such as drafting emails and creating presentations, rather than addressing physically demanding or hazardous labor. The post highlights a perceived disconnect between the potential of robotics to solve environmental and industrial challenges—like cleaning oceans or working in mines—and the current commercial application of these technologies in office environments.
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There's no money in cleaning up the environment. You can earn a lot of money doing other things without responsibility for keeping world clean.
Uhh... maybe some of us didn't notice how much we've automated farming, mining, fabrication, construction, food processing... well, you get the idea. We've been using a type of 'robot' all the way back from the invention of the windmill. The moment a wheel turned into a gear, we
There are already robots doing these things, but human contribution and oversight is obviously still needed.
They could. The corporations just know when they start using robots for dangerous jobs, the union will sue them into oblivion for erasing jobs for blue collar workers and politicians will wreck them for cheap workers votes. It's a lose-lose situation.
Because one is realspace and one is cyberspace. It easier to design, implement, and progress a metaphysical space. Regular improvements come, but understand the nature of the two effects
Mines and oil fields contain hard and complicated jobs. Robots can barely walk on rocky ground without falling over, much less pick up tools, identify a problem or situation and solve it.
Well, for starters, we're not even close to having robots that are capable of reliably doing these tasks. And even when we do get there, it would be years before it's cost-effective. Soo yeah, algorithms that answer emails it is.
Because it's easier to make a robot operate in a well organized, clean space close to a power outlet than out in buttfuck nowhere?
It's easy Robots writing E-Mails and making Präsentations are just Software You will need expensive Hardware for Trash Picking and such