I was speaking to my friend from undergrad who’s a PhD student at Stanford, he works on computer vision. I was amazed by the amount of progress purportedly being made in the field, and in AI more broadly.
He recommended I watch the demo of Tesla’s Optimus robot, here it is:
https://youtu.be/cpraXaw7dyc?si=2rAvQkhwTFWkrNW1
These robots have only been getting better and better, at accelerating rates in recent years.
Hardware limits, a significant obstacle in the way of AI progress, are almost doubling yearly. With quantum computing on the horizon, I anticipate that that obstacle disappears completely.
Once robots like Tesla’s Optimus become more advanced, how long will it be until they coat them in bullet proof armor, arm them, and have them come after us? I used to dismiss ideas like this as science fiction, but now it seems like it’ll be reality within the next decade or two.
If so, is there any chance of turning back time and revolting? I don’t think so. If we let it get to that point the best we’d be able to do is hope for a miracle.
Sam Hyde made a great point about the robot ascendency. It will never happen because the second a robot or self driving car accidentally kills a nigger, it's all shut down.