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>There's still no AI that can fold laundry

We're actually really close to general robot agents that operate in your home. Check out googleAI's saycan & RT-1 systems

https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/rt-1-robotics-transformer-....

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That's gonna be great until someone hacks it and has it stab me to death in my sleep.

More worried about government backdoors.

Much like my fears about bluetooth connected cars being hacked to crash on the highway, it turns out that - by and large - nobody wants to kill me (or at least, not badly enough to do anything about it).

Truly the most evil hacker is the one that leaves you to live out your life until old age and decrepitude catch up with you.

Ah yes the nobody wants to do it to me excuse. Until you piss off the wrong person and you suddenly crash into the railing and die in an 'accident'.

In a more Orwellian world. It can be used to assassinate dissidents or individuals who speak out against authoritarian regimes. It's just a tool in a box, but it's one that's simple, easy to use, and leaves no evidence.

Oh, Ada Palmer’s ‘Too Like The Lightning’ has this as an element.

> leaves no evidence

For a “car crash” I agree.

But if my laundry folding robot stabs me to death in my sleep, I hope that at the very least it raises some eyebrows :^)

I always felt like the HL7 interface is a huge vector for this. Change someone's medicine allergies, blood type, etc.

But that’s true with or without the AI. Anyone could decide they want to kill you. Most of the time we rely on “not everyone wanting to kill everyone else” to get by.

They can't get bluetooth to connect.

The thing about black swan events is they never seem likely to happen until they do.

just unplug the robot before you go to sleep, an easy solution

cars are great until someone deliberately runs into me

Also: https://kottke.org/10/04/the-robot-who-considers-towels

No way would I bring some company's robot into my house, especially not one that has anything to do with Google. Maybe it does your laundry and dishes for you, but you can bet that it'll be recording everything that it sees and hears and sending all that data back to the people it actually works for so that they can use that data against you or sell it to someone else who will.

Unless I can find a model I can verify has zero networking ability and isn't gathering and storing data for somebody else, no thanks!

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