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anything involving an interface with the physical world. For example, running a lemonade stand. You'd need thousands, if not millions of dollars to build a ro

anything involving an interface with the physical world. For example, running a lemonade stand. You'd need thousands, if not millions of dollars to build a robot machine with a computerized brain capable of doing what a 6 year old child can do - produce lemonade from simple ingredients (lemon, sugar, water) and sell it to consumers. Same with basically all cooking/food-service and hospitality tasks, an physical therapy type tasks (massage, chiropractor, etc)... heck, even driving on public roads still doesn't seem to be perfect, despite 10+ years on investment and research by leading tech companies, although there is also a regulatory hurdle here.

roenxi 2y ago
You seem to have shifted the conversation's goalposts there - those are things that computers can do, it just costs a lot. And, more to the point, they aren't indicative of intelligence. Computers have cleared the intelligence requirements to run a lemonade stand by a large margin - and the other tasks too for that matter.
- jcgrillo 2y ago
  > those are things that computers can do, it just costs a lot One could travel between continents in minutes on an ICBM with a reentry vehicle bolted to the front but we don't because it's too expensive. It's a perfectly reasonable constraint to demand that a technology be cost effective. Otherwise it has no practical value.