I'm reminded a bit of this XKCD comic: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks My younge

I'm reminded a bit of this XKCD comic: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks My youngest son recently asked me to make a robot for him. Getting something up and running that connects to an AI voice assistant and can talk to him is now a fairly trivial task. The wheels, arms, and ability to play with him on the Nintendo Switch, that might take a bit longer. It's crazy how literally every part of this is getting easier and easier on both the software and hardware side though - you don't even need to do proper embedded programming at this point, a Raspberry Pi is small enough that you can get a real PC in a tiny box and implement things in the laziest possible fashion. Maybe in a couple of years... maybe in six months you'll be able to tell an AI bot what inputs and outputs it has, describe a task for it and a vague value function and it'll bootstrap into a decent Minecraft player. At which point it's probably time to smash all the machines and go for a nice walk outside.