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trimethylpurinetoday at 6:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Right. My comment wasn't about maids from the Jetsons. General purpose robots are not soon. But for more specific tasks we've come very far in the last decade.

Warehouse automation is a reality today. Package delivery is also, just not broadly across the US. But it is very much happening right now.

Specifically my comment was about package delivery, which appears to be around the corner for most major cities, and already in place in several major cities around the world.

For indoor delivery, you don't really need Atlas. A 4 wheeled "full self drive" can fairly easily navigate cubicles and press elevator buttons. It's really not that crazy, and doesn't require any reasoning whatsoever. Basic preprogrammed pathfinding borrowed from any modern video game works fine for this. I don't think you need any advanced AI, let alone AGI.


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obliotoday at 8:19 PM

Going up random stairs is not the same thing, though.