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Marques Brownlee has put up a video about a US$20,000 robot. The company behind it claims it can do a whole range of household tasks 'through the power of AI', and will be delivered next year. They even demonstrated a prototype to a journalist. And the entire demonstration was being remotely controlled by a human operator. And the company admits that, other than one or two simple tasks like opening a door, all tasks will be completed by a remote human operator. Those tasks will need to be scheduled in advance. So. Assuming this thing can be put into mass production, a huge if, it's basically a mechanical Turk. Mark my words. If this thing makes it to market, and that's a big if, the operators will be in a low-wage country. It will almost exclusively be a way for rich white Americans to have human servants do their chores, without them being in their house. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmodZ-5c" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmodZ-5c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmodZ-5c</a> <a href="/tags/robot/" rel="tag">#robot</a> <a href="/tags/robotics/" rel="tag">#robotics</a> <a href="/tags/marques/" rel="tag">#Marques</a> <a href="/tags/marquesbrownlee/" rel="tag">#MarquesBrownlee</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/vulturecapital/" rel="tag">#VultureCapital</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a>

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NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations">https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations</a><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/transportation/" rel="tag">#transportation</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#safety</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#artificialintelligence</a> <a href="/tags/googleai/" rel="tag">#GoogleAI</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a>

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The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.More of my work for Trouw: <a href="https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/">https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/</a><a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/creativity/" rel="tag">#creativity</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#work</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a>

Cartoon showing a street in the rain. A man on a bike is delivering food, while another courier is delivering packages from Amazon. Two other workers are collecting garbage. Inside one of the houses on the street, we see robots labeled 'AI' sitting dry and warm, engaged in making a paining, playing the violin and writing.

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I think it is meaningful that Marvin Minsky, sometimes called the "father of AI", seemed to hold human beings in low regard. Here's John Searle in 1983: Marvin Minsky of MIT says that the next generation of computers will be so intelligent that we will ‘be lucky if they are willing to keep us around the house as household pets.' Here's Joseph Weizenbaum in 2007: Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT, once pronounced—a belief he still holds—that ‘‘the brain is merely a meat machine.’’ He goes on to note that meat is dead and might be eaten or thrown out. Flesh is what's alive. He also draws attention to the word "merely", as in "nothing more than". I share with Weizenbaum the belief that Minsky has clearly expressed a disdain for human intelligence. We're on the order of household pets. Our brains are no more than food or trash. Obviously Minsky doesn't speak for all AI researchers then or since, but his "meat machine" language is all over the place, and this disdain or even contempt for human intelligence and achievement is also common. It definitely doesn't speak to a curiosity about intelligence, which I think requires at least a little bit of love and esteem. <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/intelligence/" rel="tag">#intelligence</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a>

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DAIR is a research institute that is highly sceptical about AI hype and the big tech companies behind it. You can follow their excellent video account at:➡️ <a href="https://peertube.dair-institute.org/accounts/dair" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dair</a> They've already published over 100 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at <a href="https://peertube.dair-institute.org/a/dair/videos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="peertube.dair-institute.org/a/dair/videos">https://peertube.dair-institute.org/a/dair/videos</a>You can also follow their Mastodon account at <a href="https://dair-community.social/@DAIR" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@[email protected]</a> <a href="/tags/featuredpeertube/" rel="tag">#FeaturedPeerTube</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a>

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Remember the cyberattacks on the U.S. government in the early 2020s? The Biden admin asked tech companies to help and got some “free” upgrades.The Trump admin is doing similarly with AI. But our reporting shows there’s no such thing as a free lunch. <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post">https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</a><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#Cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a>

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