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Comment by dyauspitr | Hacker News Reader

A robot that does all of the chores in your house and outside your house is not useful? I’m going to stop reading right there.

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Do you think we are anywhere near that? Do you have a vacuum cleaner robot?

Yes we are. It’s all very recent and physical AI is exploding now. Here is literally a 3 hour autonomous stream of a robot folding and stacking clothes.

https://youtu.be/a2HZyURUE_o?is=2fCIZRpNxkCFP-83

Is this an actual, real example, or is the robot being operated by an off-screen human being ?

Autonomous

Those folds are bad, I like my folds tighter than that

Good for you, literally everyone else will take this fold over doing laundry themselves.

Touche, a more or less decent pool robot cleaner is around 3k and doesn't last more than a few years without changing every part but the case itself. Ok I take it - it operates in somewhat "hostile" environment but the point still stands

Back in my day (80's-90's), our Polaris vac-sweep was pretty simple reliable. Late stage capitalism / neoliberalism made it worse.

It didn't need an LLM or deep learning to do its job because it would randomly crawl around so long that it was on. I don't understand adding complexity, fragility, or cost to a solved problem, but I guess there are enough people who engage in competitive conspicuous consumption to signal status.

Roombas have been a thing for many years, long before the current llm craze.

And they are completely useless.

Not in the current context no, opportunity costs exist.

Well, given that stunning list of zero opportunity costs, I'm sure forced to reconsider my stance. Very persuasive!

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