If almost all jobs were automated, then prices would plummet massively, and the government could tax corporations and the income of the wealthy, not just their spending. There would be no hiding from taxes. They could also implement price caps on any and all products.

Bernie needs to retire. This would kill innovation, and put the US at a major disadvantage.

Apparently the headset will have a magnetic disk that sticks to the phone and draws power that way, and it is less than half the weight of the Oculus Quest 2. I have a feeling it is going to be absolutely amazing, and everyone will want one, as it will give users amazing abilities: hands free map navigation, zoom capabilities, language translation, hands free message notification, etc.

The answer is a wire tether to a phone’s battery. It looks like Apple is going to do that with their VR headset

Impressive, but in reality, it's a $5M toolbag fetcher that requires a team of engineers and programmers (who earn $1M+ a year each) weeks to plan and execute this stunt. It seems like we are a long way off from robots replacing many construction jobs.

It’s much bigger than what a human hand requires

It looks more impressive than it actually is. The human hand is infinitely better than this, and this requires a huge valve/pump/hose/manifold system.

Bro, I am an OG armchair futurist from back in the original KurzweilAI forum days, we saw tons of articles from physicists, scientists, engineers, programmers, philosophers, and other experts. I don’t have the time to research that stuff, as I am focusing on researching how to survive, and live a prosperous life in the coming age of AGI.

I remember that guy Set/ai talking about how 2023 was going to be the year that AI really takes off and it looks like he was right, although his reasoning was cryptic and hard to interpret.

A decade ago most experts were saying it would take “hundreds of years” and recently changed it to “a few years or decades”

Experts need to be cautious when making predictions so they don’t jeopardize their careers.

What’s your prediction for 2025-26? Any autonomous robots by then?

Dude, I always thought you were absurdly optimistic, but your predictions from years ago are very accurate! WTF are you doing to see this?

Do you think this AI generated movie technology could be used for animating robots?

Agreed - Google could add hyperlinks throughout the response text, as well as banner ads above and below, and perhaps even video commercials before you get to see the ai’s response. Then they could charge a subscription per employee for companies that want to buy, just like they do with Google Workspace. Google will make mountains of money off of this.

The ChatGPT app costs money, and they can easily place ads within it, and around it.

Having AGI doesn’t mean we will have the hardware to create human equivalent robots. The human hand is absolutely amazing, with it’s strength to size ratio, it’s speed and it’s dexterity. We have nothing even close to that, so many jobs will require humans for a while.

I was thinking about how Google might figure out ways to get ads into their version of a chatbot, and they will probably figure out how to do it, albeit in different ways. I can see ads after every sentence or two, hyperlinks to websites within the chatbot’s responses, and banner ads above and below the responses.

That’s because of all of the anti-middle class economic changes that the republicans implemented during the last 50 years.

These AI chatbots won’t know specific details about certain jobs, like obscure things that are very specific to a given job which it likely wasn’t trained on. That, and the fact that it is still prone to making mistakes means that it won’t replace that many jobs.

Any type of hands on technician job will be around for a long time

Yes, it’s not a consumer friendly strategy, but they need to do something to stop the cash hemorrhage.

I have gotten used to having a bunch of Alexa’s around the house, but all we use them for is music, timers, alarms, the weather and the date. I would say that they should strip down the servers to just the main functions like I mentioned above, and increase the price of the individual units.

Exascale is a Quintillion Floating Point Operations per second, or: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPS. That is an absolutely enormous number

The entire tech sector is down massively due to higher interest rates. Once inflation cools down, the tech sector will roar higher. Now is a great opportunity to buy in.

I’m left-leaning but energy prices are sky high right now, and people are hurting because of it. We NEED to keep producing oil until we have a sufficient supply of renewable energy. Unless you are ok with everyone paying $300 for a sandwich, and $50 for a bag of chips?