A headline from earlier this week was ‘Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics’. Google once owned Boston Dynamics and sold it as they didn’t think it had anything to sell. I bet they regret that now. Even its AI training data would have made it worth retaining. The things you don’t see when you take the short-term view.
I wonder if that’s the same with this warning from China’s National Development and Reform Commission. Yes, humanoid robotics are at their gold rush stage, but that’s because people know the future probably means billions of these robots, and trillions of profit building them. At the turn of the 20th century, the nascent automobile and aerospace industries had hundreds of small firms all over the world operating out of workshops. Robotics looks like it’s at the same stage.
Just learn from "Open"AI and make spicy sex robos, that’ll sell and won’t have any negative consequences for society (not that they care as long as it makes more money, so it’s all good), o no!
