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According to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

To answer your real question though, I need an AI that will actually convert a basket of dirty laundry into a stack of neatly folded clean clothes.

I mean we have two machines that together convert a basket of dirty laundry into clean clothes. And then by appeal to authority ("There's no law that says I have to fold my clean clothes."), voila! It's done.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Unacceptable. Pathetic. Is that the best humanity has to offer? Some brutish, crude machine that just agitates my clothes in soapy water? And a second machine that just blows hot air on it as it spins it?

    No.

    I should be able to put my dirty clothes in a receptacle, and say "Hey, Robot Overlord Google. Start clothes cleaning cycle" and when I return the clothes are separated, cleaned, and neatly folded. At a minimum. Really the clothes should also be put away in my dresser by the AI.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What if a robot came and gathered all your dirty clothes, made listings for them on craigslist (or whatever people use now), marked up above MSRP or whatever you paid (people will still buy them, even used, even at a higher price than new, if you include a note saying they were owned by a woman, whether they were or not), shipped them to the interested buyers, used the proceeds from those sales to purchase new, identical clothing to what you previously owned?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm sure at first I would love it because instead of having to purchase this robot it would be "free" to me.

    But after everyone gets used to the clothes robots there would eventually be paid subscription tiers and the next time you open your drawers all your pants have DraftKings ads on the butt.

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