> Consider: this is the worst they will ever be. This is probably what people in the 18th century thought when they saw that digesting duck automaton [1]. Tech

> Consider: this is the worst they will ever be. This is probably what people in the 18th century thought when they saw that digesting duck automaton [1]. Technological progress isn’t a magical linear thing that always leads to things getting better over time. There’s some very hard problems to solve before the promises made here can be made true, and it’s not a given that they will or even can be solved. Building the robot was never the hard part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck