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The only doubt I have about this is the amount of electricity this personal labor servant robot will cost. I can imagine that what you describe is a certainty f
by scyzoryk_xyz 4y ago
The only doubt I have about this is the amount of electricity this personal labor servant robot will cost. I can imagine that what you describe is a certainty for the rich, but I do wonder where the cut-off will be for the rest of society. I can imagine a reality where those who don’t have such robots, will want to work hard to get them, and a number of lower-cost, less energy intensive helper bots will cater to the needs of those of us who can’t afford the full standalone-Alfred model.
There will be a billionaire with a 100 of these to do random shit with.
- mwint 4y agoElectricity is super cheap, really. You can move an entire car a mile for $0.025 - $0.125, depending on your state. I can’t see electricity prices being an issue unless we really bungle the building of energy capacity in the near future. (My Leaf gets ~4mi/kWh)
- ben_w 4y agoElectricity is usually much much cheaper than food calories — 2500 kcal is about 3 kWh, apply your local energy and food costs — so electricity won’t be the limiting factor, but construction cost/longevity and AI quality will be. Assuming equal capacity (not any time soon but might happen eventually), anywhere that electricity was cheaper than Germany’s famously expensive average of US$0.45/kWh would be able to afford to replace any human labourer with a robot, even if the humans were at the UN threshold for abject poverty (US$1.90/day, which is why I gave German electricity in USD rather than EUR) and that human somehow worked productively for 33h45m per day.