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It's incredible that GP has never heard of these devices!
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He's referring to his general practitioner
Why no car-sized quadracopter though?
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There's smart washing machines now that automatically sense what is inside of them by weight and color and wash accordingly.
I just used one, it did everything in 51 minutes, minus folding. Amazing.
I have to load and unload those and put away the contents. I also don't have the space for either whereas a robot body with an AI in it could (in this hypothetical) just sit in some corner, folded up, while it's not doing anything. Not to mention all the other chores it could do.
What you're asking for is not an ai but a robot. A robot that loads and unloads appliances does not need AI (though it may be the easiest way to get it to work now) because the tasks has to do at so restricted, but it does need manipulators capable of holding wet crockery without dropping it.
The reason we don't have that is because, if the ai art sucks, it is of no consequence, but if the robot dishwasher unloader fucks up, it smashes all your plates. And robotics is harder than LLMs.
We already solved all the easily automatable problems in laundry and dishwashing.
The robot needs a way to determine which jobs need to be done and how to do them efficiently so that I don't have to bother with all that bullshit and can instead do art (/writing/math) all day and night. That's what we're talking about, that's what people want out of automation. Whether that's possible or not isn't part of this conversation.
Eh. Pretty sure that aspect is trivial. I already have an automated system to determine which jobs need doing - it's a task tracking app and it just puts them on rotation. The mental capacity it would take to think "does the bin actually need taking out" when prompted by the app is negligible compared to the capacity required to remember to think about the bin, and the physical effort and time required to take it out and replace the bag. So no, I don't think what we lack is a way to determine "which jobs need to be done". If an AI tool somehow could tell me that, it would make virtually no difference in my life. The task is the same every single time and so does not need any efficiency planning either.
The fact is that a robot which can successfully take the bag out of the bin, tie it off, carry it through the flat, down the stairs, open the dumpster and throw it in does not exist or, if it does, it's still a research project not an affordable consumer product. If it did exist, it would save me time and effort every week. Whatever it is you're talking about would save virtually nothing.
Laundry, to return to that, needs doing at a near constant rate, so there is usually no question of whether it needs to be done. Putting the laundry on is, again, the same task every time (maybe you want it to separate your whites, but the difficult task is the physical separation, not deciding how to do this). Hanging it out would be an interesting software challenge but, once again, if you don't have a robot capable of hanging out laundry, I don't need an AI telling me where to put each sock, something which gets me nothing.
The remaining things we can automate with household chores are almost all physical. The prospect of software being able to know exactly whether the bin needs taking out or the laundry needs doing is completely insignificant in comparison.
A whole lot of text not talking about the fact that what we call "AI" today is bullshit and useless and takes away the joy from life and its good parts, leaving us with the bullshit, when we were promised that automation would do the bullshit for us.
It's explaining why the bullshit is left. If you don't want to hear that, and instead just want to moan about how AI is not solving a problem that it literally cannot solve because it doesn't have any physical existence, then that's your choice, but it doesn't seem a productive use of time, like complaining that your dishwasher can't drive you to work. So yeah, I'm not going to talk about that, because it would be dumb.
AI hasn't taken away any of the good parts of my life. I do more art and writing than I did 5 years ago. I play the same amount of music. It has impacted my job but it's not yet clear how significant that will end up being.