And spend nothing on AI practically except how to fork ChatGPT onto a dumb Siri. Not exactly a great foundation Apple has set up unlike iTunes back in the day. A customizable Siri ai chatbot running off Apple cloud could change their game and should be their number one priority.
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Like Apple, Meta is Working on Humanoid Robots
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Can we please not make Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Emphasis on Judgement Day) a documentary?
Because these things aren't to benefit people like me and you.
A robot that costs half a million dollars isn't something we'll ever own. Maybe a toy for the rich; but really these things are targetted at businesses.
Say an amazon warehouse, a worker might cost amazon 40k/yr. A robot works half the speed but works round the clock and 7 days a week; and overall will have triple the productivity because it never rests. After 4 years it has paid for itself. Everyone in this scenario benefits; well except the original worker who's now unemployed.
Manufacturing, agriculture and many other industries have already proven that humanoid robots are the wrong way to go. At one point my X feed was full of tech bros posting AI videos of humanoid robots scything away at fields of wheat claiming what a godsend such a robot would be to a farmer, just to have videos of combine harvesters already doing the same job 100x quicker than the humanoid robot in the video...
We don't need humanoid robots, if we need robots at all for household chores, we need one optimized for the jobs at hand, that pack away small when they are done. For washing the dishes? We have a dishwasher for that that uses less water and detergent than doing it by hand, you just need something for packing the dishes into the washer and putting the clean stuff away afterwards, but that is the hard part, the easy part would be to do the washing up in the sink, but we already have a more economical solution for that part...
Vacuum cleaner robots with integrated mops have shown that the best solution to that job isn't humanoid (as long as you live on a single level), for stairs and multi-level accommodations you still need to do some of that manually and/or have multiple devices. (Also, they aren't as effective as a good old fashioned vacuum cleaner for some situations. But they are a start and a move in the right direction.)
We don't need humanoid robots, if we need robots at all for household chores, we need one optimized for the jobs at hand, that pack away small when they are done. For washing the dishes? We have a dishwasher for that that uses less water and detergent than doing it by hand, you just need something for packing the dishes into the washer and putting the clean stuff away afterwards, but that is the hard part, the easy part would be to do the washing up in the sink, but we already have a more economical solution for that part...
Vacuum cleaner robots with integrated mops have shown that the best solution to that job isn't humanoid (as long as you live on a single level), for stairs and multi-level accommodations you still need to do some of that manually and/or have multiple devices. (Also, they aren't as effective as a good old fashioned vacuum cleaner for some situations. But they are a start and a move in the right direction.)
And, as social media has shown us, if your innocent little Apple Bot SE is found out in public, people will just beat the crap out of it.
It's all about maximising profit these days.
I agree with this completely.
Hilarious stuff.
I can guarantee we will never reach there.
We have seen that played out before and it continues to do so.
It will be tough to reach that point.