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.
When you argue with a bot online and think it's smart. Remember that it's a fixed function and cannot deviate from that function.
The robots that fall over and then get back up to carry boxes. Each thing is a programmed sub routine. It's a change of state. State normal, state change to fallen over. Run get back up sub routine.
The whole point of creating robots is to get rid of black and brown labor. Nobody would ever admit that outloud, but that's the point.
EDIT: I love how people downvote me when I have real world experience and I know what I'm talking about. The Matrix is real! Morphius is going to redpill me! None of that shit is real. Remember when they said learn to code? I did.