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Today I see an article from the Sun which tells us about the Tesla bot. Showing us mock ups from the Cyber Rodeo at the opening of Giga Texas in April 2022.

What is reality?

AI day 2 (Oct 22), six months after the reveal, Tesla produces Bumble C. A very awkward and shambling robot made with off the shelf parts and not very useful.

Investor day 2023, this month, Tesla shows 2 Optimus bots working on building a third. OK it's highly choreographed and pretty stilted.

I'm sure I posted the Boston dynamics "dancing robots" video??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw

After 34 years, they manage to produce a fully scripted highly choreographed video of robots dancing where very step they took was programmed.

The real news is that Tesla managed to get a custom bot into testing in 1 year withe actual hands and an opposable thumb. Go look at boston dynamcis robots for hands....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dS0aDMQoD4

Nice to know our press is on the ball and reporting current events.....

Oh Jeez! Another robot to make more humans redundant when we already have about four or five billion of us doing next to nothing apart from adding zeros to the bank balances of billionaires by 'consuming'. And it will be made mostly of plastic from fossil fuels. Good work St Elon of Tesla.

The eccentric billionaire hopes the robot will walk humans into a "future of abundance, a future where there is no poverty, a future where you can have whatever you want in terms of products and services.”

Yeah, right.

It's actually quite frightening.

I agree with you Frank, it's terrifying

Actually it is an inflection point just like Web2.0.

Web2.0, far from destroying jobs, has made more jobs available by growing the economy and moving to more service orientated jobs. Asia manufactures, our world finances it and we work in the service industries which sell it.

Having a billion bots simply changes the way the world works and how money is made and distributed. It is no more different than putting a power mining machine down a coal mine and retiring picks and shovels.

If you want to see how it works simply look at the Ford, 100 years of the assembly line. It is quick and you will miss it if you don't know it is there, but once you get into the 1980's the vast number of people are replaced by robotic assemblers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2HwrqQeHRY

This is GM with their robotic assembly lines in the 1990's. Look for the people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKtImxDYl_k

Next step, Tesla model S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lfxPI5ObM

Finally the most automated vehicle production lines in the world, Tesla Model Y.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6viK9wywZ6w

This is the most advanced vehicle manufacturing plant in the world. Look for the humans. Robotics is already here, it has already taken millions of jobs. Just because a walking moving robot with dexterity and natural vision navigation arrives, it doesn't mean this is the beginning of the robotic revolution. It is, in fact, the end of it.

Kaz, when true AI is achieved the androids could take over. We already have proto cyborgs - a mix of man and machine - think of some disabled athletes. I am a low-lvel one with my stents and spinal plates, others have artificial hips and knees.

We are not at the Skynet - Terminator level just yet, but we are not a million miles away, apart from the time travel bit.

Workingman wrote:Kaz, when true AI is achieved the androids could take over. We already have proto cyborgs - a mix of man and machine - think of some disabled athletes. I am a low-lvel one with my stents and spinal plates, others have artificial hips and knees.

We are not at the Skynet - Terminator level just yet, but we are not a million miles away, apart from the time travel bit.

Yeah that one is far more about ChatGPT, Bard, the Farcebook equivalent and a thousand other IA projects ongoing now. It is exceedingly scary. One of the reasons I'm working with ChatGPT and trying to get it to do stuff it should not. So it is found now and closed before we get to the Skynet stage.

A walking bot with a vehicle self driving computer for a brain is not the real risk. ChatGPT? Another level entirely.