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It's humanity correcting the growth rate - it's been well overdue, it's just going to be tough for a little while but we'll manage. If anything, robots could ma

by bArray 10y ago

It's humanity correcting the growth rate - it's been well overdue, it's just going to be tough for a little while but we'll manage. If anything, robots could make this a lot better for us. People are relatively content in the West and the rise in living costs are putting people off kids.

collyw 10y ago
So far we have robots for doing the vacuuming. I don't see why everyone is so optimistic that there things are just around the corner.
- Joof 10y ago
  I think our robots that do manufacturing or driving are more sophisticated than the ones that vacuum. AI has hit a boom and is producing a lot of potentially useful achievements (that it hadn't before). It wouldn't surprise me if they become more prevelant. Of course, we still need the resources to build them...
  - bArray 10y ago
    Exactly, people take for granted the AI that drives Siri and Google talk - these are amazing advances. It's enabled family members who are dislexic to completely transform their ability to engage in technology and the world. Of course driverless cars are s massive feat and I see more robots entering the house soon in less subtle ways.
    - collyw 10y ago
      I am curios, a lot of people talk about Siri on here, yet I have never seen anyone use it in real life (I see plenty of iPhones). Does it only work well with American style English (I am Scottish and am pretty sure the accent would cause it problems).
      - bArray 10y ago
        Not sure, a lot of my family is London-ish area English and it works well for them. I think the detection algorithm will look past accent and probably do some deep-learning based technique. Google are probably smart enough to tailor the voice recognition algorithms geographically - if you spend time in Scotland it will probably use the Scottish trained net to detect what you want.
- bArray 10y ago
  Because all house robots so far don't really incorporate the more advanced aspects of AI, such as neural networks / deep learning, empowerment and general research done into social robotics. Even with what we have, they still have the potential to really wow the world.

by bArray 10y ago

collyw 10y ago

So far we have robots for doing the vacuuming. I don't see why everyone is so optimistic that there things are just around the corner.

Joof 10y ago
I think our robots that do manufacturing or driving are more sophisticated than the ones that vacuum. AI has hit a boom and is producing a lot of potentially useful achievements (that it hadn't before). It wouldn't surprise me if they become more prevelant. Of course, we still need the resources to build them...
- bArray 10y ago
  Exactly, people take for granted the AI that drives Siri and Google talk - these are amazing advances. It's enabled family members who are dislexic to completely transform their ability to engage in technology and the world. Of course driverless cars are s massive feat and I see more robots entering the house soon in less subtle ways.
  - collyw 10y ago
    I am curios, a lot of people talk about Siri on here, yet I have never seen anyone use it in real life (I see plenty of iPhones). Does it only work well with American style English (I am Scottish and am pretty sure the accent would cause it problems).
    - bArray 10y ago
      Not sure, a lot of my family is London-ish area English and it works well for them. I think the detection algorithm will look past accent and probably do some deep-learning based technique. Google are probably smart enough to tailor the voice recognition algorithms geographically - if you spend time in Scotland it will probably use the Scottish trained net to detect what you want.
bArray 10y ago
Because all house robots so far don't really incorporate the more advanced aspects of AI, such as neural networks / deep learning, empowerment and general research done into social robotics. Even with what we have, they still have the potential to really wow the world.