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Imagine you’re a machine superintelligence that wishes a body to maneuver. Would you select a human form?
Probably not. Biologists haven’t any defined theory about how our bipedalism has developed, but like all the pieces else in biology, it’s more of a cludge than an optimal design. Moving and balancing on two limbs is a powerful technical performance, nevertheless it is difficult on rough terrain and exposes terrible pressure on a spine that first developed for 4 -legged friends. If we hadn't began from 4 limbs, may no century-like form be higher?
But within the technology sector, the humanoid robot is the cultural handmads to a different sacred grail: artificial general intelligence.
This week it was reported that Meta Tesla, Apple and Nvidia are planning a big investment in AI-powered humanoid robots. Your initial focus might be budget tasks.
Companies corresponding to Figure Ai and Agility Robotics are already constructing electronic doubts for warehouses corresponding to the move of products. But outside of very specific applications, these machines really don't need much.
It is not any coincidence that Humanoid robots and AGI are the fever dreams of nerds who grew up on science fiction (I say this as considered one of them). Both assume that the human form, whether physically or mentally, is the highlight of evolution.
However, the human spirit was removed from being a “general” intelligence that has developed for the very specific task of operating a human body that’s the results of evolutionary compromises. Simple computers can outperform us with any variety of brute force tasks. Even our forces of abstract pondering are limited. Just try to visualise a brand new mathematical object or to synthesize the arguments of 100 philosophy books at the identical time. AI can already do a greater job.
And yet we’re exceptional in other ways. Think of straightforward but delicate tasks corresponding to washing a wine glass, changing a diaper or placing a flower in an arrangement. Now imagine you make you along with your eyes closed. Note how little the duty relies on seeing and the way much the surprisingly effective -grained sensitivity of your skin and its ability to measure tension, pressure and weight by the muscles of your fingers, hands and arms are dependent. Setting up a tactile sensorium into every cubic millimeter of the body is a technical challenge that isn’t a totally solved problem in robotics.
Could a household robot ever be so sensitive? And even when it could, why must you limit it to 2 legs and two arms? Why not 4 and 6 in order that an older or sick person can easily absorb and move them without being afraid of stumbling?
One argument is that they’d look scary. The other is that human robot adaptation environments which can be designed for humans.
Both points have some merits. Regardless of this, there is no such thing as a robot, humanoid or in other ways as versatile as we’re – definitely not at a price that everybody can afford to pay.
Just as there may be a “jagged border” within the AI, by which systems that may develop into excellent in a task will probably be wild with a closely related robot capabilities. Flower arranging could also be possible – in any case, the worst could be a crushed flower – but reliable diaper change and older care may very well be out of reach without end.
In short, you expect robots focus on specializing.
This superintelligent -Ki would almost actually not select body design to hold his mind around. Why restrict the computing capability to what suits in a single skull? Or do you limit mobility to what a certain sentence can do of limbs?
Instead, it might sit in its server farm and make wirelessly with the robot shell, which at the moment meets your needs. It could even try a human form every so often – just for the novelty.
