Short term profits. Recognition. The belief that it will make things better.
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But it can end well!* See the movie Wall-E. That could be our glorious post-robotic, Universal Basic Income, dream-come-true. But you ask, Why? That is a half-thought. Complete the thought process. You know the answers to your question.
*well is a matter of subjective opinion.
When will robots go mainstream? Despite a $1 trillion opportunity, robotics is only a $50 billion market today, and 95% of the world’s warehouse space remains untouched by robots...
I question whether it ever really will. Despite significant financial and time investments, much of it still generally remains useful to specific tasks. If you need 50 robots to do 50 different things because diversifying their usefulness remains a pipe dream, it's a tough sell. It's also a tough sell whether the majority of people actually want and/or see a benefit to their life on the consumer side in addition to a growing consensus that, in the case of GenAI, what it outputs still kind of needs verification and is about as trustworthy of a source as Wikipedia. The latter statement, in my opinion, will be a hard one to break since it has started off so poorly.
2025 will be the Year of ...
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I work with that every day in banking. Today, most online communication between customers and banks is done through robots. The problem, in my opinion, is that banks sell commodities. It makes little difference, or no difference, whether your credit card is from this bank or that. To give an example, the differential advantage is the quality of service, and with the arrival of AI, we're going to lose that.
More like frantically casting lead ingots and painting them gold...
I wonder how many workers will be replaced by non-humanoid robots? After all, why bother making them humanoid unless they are replacing sex workers?
Not a good sign: 
techcrunch.com
Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch
Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.
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Greed and vanity. Same as it ever was.
I think the likes of Spielberg (writer/director of the A.I. film) and Gareth Edwards (writer/director of The Creator film) deserve an overabundance of contempt for trying to humanize artificiality, and put it on a pedestal. This anti-human sentimentality should be seen for what it is, nihilism.
I plan to raise my kids right, and train them to join the anti-robot termination squads once the necessity arises. *tongue in cheek* (sort of).
