Major players in the IT industry, including Jeff Bezos and Nvidia Corp., have reportedly invested in Figure AI Inc., a startup creating human-like robots. The company is seeking to raise approximately $675 million in a funding round. The move comes as part of a rush to discover new uses for artificial intelligence.
  • MxM111@kbin.social
    1·
    9 months ago

    Ok, stop using computers, any other tools, electricity, any building, and go live in the cave or something, and even there do not even think to use a stick to help yourself. Because all of those are tools and replacing human labor.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      01·
      9 months ago

      You seem to think that real-world decisions must be all-or-nothing, and that somehow all technology can be conflated with humanoid robots. This is nonsense, and you shouldn’t be immediately jumping to an extreme position.

      Tools, such as computers and electricity, enhance human capabilities but don’t directly replace human work.

      The only function of a humanoid robot is to replace a human. A humanoid robot is not a tool, it’s a substitute.

      • MxM111@kbin.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        First of all, I do not think in black and white, as you did to the post I have answered.

        I will not deny that robots as any other new technology can and will create its challenges, but ,come on!, robots on factories were replacing factory workers for very long time. And if you look more general, 200 years ago, like 70% of population were working in agriculture, until industrial revolution with mechanization and automation replaced like all of them, so that un US now is less than 2%.

        We absolutely need AI + robots. We have aging population, our Social Security program is under danger to become insolvent because more older population and less young population (and no, another population boom is not the answer). The US manufacturing productivity (https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-labor-productivity-and-how-has-it-changed-in-the-us-over-time/) is actually going DOWN for the last 10+ years. The AI + robots is absolutely that multiplier that our economy needs for us to have great future.

        Now, I totally understand that one can completely screw up the future, and this is why we should be vigilant and vote for right politicians, advocate right policies and so on, but stopping new technology because of this fear is absolutely not what we should do.