Like Apple, Meta is Working on Humanoid Robots

Thank god

Meta is the only company I would trust to build AI powered robots that for sure won’t bring about the apocalypse

I thought they already have a humanoid robot. They have one running the company, right??

How does Apple even work on this? they can’t even get a basic functioning Siri.

Frankly we should be horrified by the people that have decided to build these kinds of things. These robots are almost certainly going to be used for violence in one way or another.

People have been working on this stuff for decades. I shudder to think what Facebook could add. A robot that spreads hate and lies is not something I want to see.

I don't see the point.

Humans have always looked for "cheaper labor"... not just in business structures but also at home. We seem to picture this nirvana where we can create "something" to do all of the work for us... but then still somehow pay the bills and similar. Perhaps we dream of what is implied in episodes of Star Trek-type Sci-Fi, where our future is no longer dominated by the pursuit of money. However, even if we eventually have the technology to replace upwards of all of our human jobs, the transition from here to there is quite foggy.

If you want to see the point: imagine a personal "Data" available for $20K. Would there be any buyers? Make that $10K. $5K. And if you had a Data able to do anything you can do, what would you have him do? Conceptually, up to everything you don't like/want to do. Data wouldn't care as he lacks the emotions to covet happiness. And then what would you do? Only things you actually like/want to do.

For many of us, the mundane parts of life would be the first things to delegate to Data. And the big joys of life would be the first things to fill in the time. Why go do that "boring" job every day when I'd rather be ___________? If Data can take over that boring stuff and get paid to do it, I can shift to ____________ full time.

It's that transition though that is complicated. Big imaginations can imagine the end of monetary-driven lives. It's not that hard to imagine. But how do we go from chasing dollars every day to not caring about such a chase? What are the steps? How do we phase out pursuit of wealth while phasing in all this labor replacement without us biologicals starving/evicted/etc for lacking the income to pay the bills still demanded until the transition would be complete.

Pair A.I. smart enough to at least match H.I. (Human Intelligence) with mechanical bodies like our own and we've created slave labor able to do anything we can do... and that labor won't require pay, vacations, sick time, etc. Don't waste your valuable time fixing that _____ or mowing that lawn or sitting in traffic... let Data fill in for you on that kind of stuff. You then do whatever you want to do in all of your waking moments.

I "think" the goal of this kind of stuff is towards that... though I'm not so sure of the motivations going along with that vision. Perhaps the motivations are simply to cut labor costs by replacing humans with bots... but preserve the monetary models largely "as is." Eventually, all those pesky humans can be cut from the company books and let the bots do all of the work for nearly $0 labor cost. And somehow the humans get to continue to live "normal" lives anyway, though that part doesn't seem to be well defined by anyone except in loose fantasy, often presented after we've jumped from the "as is" to that kind of finish line. The middle in between the two seems "complicated."