Current Events > Am I the only one who thinks AI robots wont actually ever happen in the future?

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if there's one thing history has shown us, it's that humans can NEVER predict their own future. 100 years ago, people thought today, we'd be in flying cars while still wearing fedoras and black suits while implanting memories into our own brains. But look how damn wrong they were on nearly everything.

Also with the immense amount of fiction dramatising the abuse of robots to the end of humanity, honestly do you think we as humans would actually follow through with such nonsense in reality?

Remember Sophia, the famous female robot? Well, she's still as half-baked and dumb as ever. Also go look at tech news. Most businesses are rather investing into other more functional forms of technology like self-driving cars, flying taxis and space travel instead of some silly intelligent robot. Fictional works have already stoked investors' fears as well that robots will run about uncontrolled

robots will only ever remain as hogwash dumb sci-fi fiction. feel free call me out 50 years from now. I predict the world will still be mostly as stagnant as it is today

Sounds like something an ai would say

It can happen eventually but I doubt they'll ever be humanlike to the point where you can't tell people apart from robots unless you get into cybernetic implants

It definitely won't be happening in our lifetimes though no matter how much Elongated Musk w/ zero credentials claims it will

Source: My research is literally to help make intelligent robot teammates that don't need every single thing explained to them for them to do something not dumb in uncontrolled environments

I guess itll come down to cost vs usefulness. There were some samsung? serving robots announced on CES not long ago so maybe we''ll see them for retail in a not so far future.

But I dont think we'll be seeing any sophisticated humanoid robot any times soon. And if we do ..theyll probably be sex robots for the price of 200k.

Mackorov posted...

self-driving cars, flying taxis

So, KITTs (and KARRs) all around?

But I want my sexbot

JuanCarlos1 posted...

I guess itll come down to cost vs usefulness. There were some samsung? serving robots announced on CES not long ago so maybe we''ll see them for retail in a not so far future.

But I dont think we'll be seeing any sophisticated humanoid robot any times soon. And if we do ..theyll probably be sex robots for the price of 200k.

Intelligent robots are actually impossible (as of now at least).
Because humans can't even discover the source of consciousness till this day. If we can't even figure out how the brain 100% works, how can we possibly make robots with the same brain function of consciousness?
The hard problem of consciousness remains a hugely controversial but unresolved philosophical dilemma for that matter.

The so-called 'intelligent robots' invented in today's age are merely robots running on code and learning algorithms but their cognition is still very limited to straight black and white answers. They're basically just internet chatbots baked in with voice recognition and speech and modelled as humans lol

We will see sex robots in our lifetime. Remember how the world came together to find a covid vaccine super fast? It's like that. Everyone wants to fuck a robot. It's just a more complicated problem.

Whether or not we see it in the future is going to be driven by chemistry and physics more than anything else. We pretty much hit the physical upper limit of the amount of efficiency we can extract from a battery, and those big impressive Boston Dynamics robots require a big ass backpack to do anything for more than 15 minutes. They also have to compromise on things like torque strength on joints in order to keep the robot light enough to not overwhelm the motors, meaning they can't exactly lift very much and they have to do it in very specific ways where they break.

But even if you were resolve the battery problem, the sheer volume of energy you need to generate on a consistent basis just to keep all of them power to produces its own problem, and one that would require a significant increase in something like nuclear power plants to generate that kind of power without completely obliterating the environment.

Once you get all that stuff solved, there's still the issue of onboard processing power. Either your robot needs to have a really strong Wi-Fi connection at all times or you'll need to deal with the fact that the amount of hardware you can fit onto a robot is going to limit how quickly it can make a decision because of efficiency limitations in the algorithms with regard to the chipset. So maybe you can solve the energy crisis, but then you're still stuck with a robot that has to stand at a street corner for 90 seconds before it can make a decision on what to do.

And all of that above is really just about the physical challenges without even touching the broader set of challenges around creating generalized intelligence.

Mackorov posted...

Intelligent robots are actually impossible (as of now at least).
Because humans can't even discover the source of consciousness till this day. If we can't even figure out how the brain 100% works, how can we possibly make robots with the same brain function of consciousness?
The hard problem of consciousness remains a hugely controversial but unresolved philosophical dilemma for that matter.

The so-called 'intelligent robots' invented in today's age are merely robots running on code and learning algorithms but their cognition is still very limited to straight black and white answers. They're basically just internet chatbots baked in with voice recognition and speech and modelled as humans lol

Well I didnt mean true AI. Just sophisticated enough to carry a seeming realistic conversation based on algorithms. A more advanced siri whos settings can be tweaked.

We will most likely go extinct or have a major event that will bring us back to the dark ages before we get AI and robots that can take us over.

Mackorov posted...

Also with the immense amount of fiction dramatising the abuse of robots to the end of humanity, honestly do you think we as humans would actually follow through with such nonsense in reality?

Youve met a human before, yea?

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Well I didnt mean true AI. Just sophisticated enough to carry a seeming realistic conversation based on algorithms. A more advanced siri whos settings can be tweaked.

I'm pretty sure Alphabet (Google's parent company) has achieved this...