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173 – Oh Lawd, Strong AI is Comin’

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Usefulness of a Car?

The utility of a car is clear to me. What would I do with a Tesla bot? Yeah, so I mean, maybe people wouldn't want to have robots at like, at this point, if they're not actually, you know, full butler droids,. Even if it was a bad but look, can it carry stuff for me? You can answer the doors? I mean, I think it can carry stuff for you. So that leads to the second thing I wanted to talk about, which is the brain of the thing.

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Speaker 2
But the utility
Speaker 3
of a car is clear to me. What would I do with a Tesla bot?
Speaker 1
Yeah, so I mean, maybe people wouldn't want to have robots at like, at this point, if they're not actually, you know, full butler droids, right? Even if it
Speaker 3
was a bad but look, can it carry stuff for me? You can answer the
Speaker 1
doors? I mean, I think it can carry stuff for you. So like one of the demos they had of the Tesla bot was it like working in their Tesla factory where it's like moving around and like identifying a part and then like picking it up and then like taking it out of its packaging and then putting it on a
Speaker 2
different surface. So it's like it's, if it could take packages out of the back of a van and put them in front of a door and ring a doorbell, that's a chunk of people's employment in the world right
Speaker 3
now. A big chunk of a people's employment is also just loading trucks full of boxes. Okay, so
Speaker 1
this is, I can see where this is going. So that leads to the second thing I wanted to talk about, which is the brain of the thing. So like Boston Dynamics, I'm going to pick on them a lot because they have presented themselves as like, we have the coolest robots and it's like, okay, you do have the coolest robots from the perspective of like,
Speaker 3
it looks cool. And it's hard to kick over your dog
Speaker 1
bot, but still. But they don't have the AI technology. They don't have the brain, right? Tesla basically has has really, really good self-driving cars, right? And you know, I can already hear people screaming like, oh, but they, you know, they fail in certain conditions. Okay, here's the thing about it. If the Tesla, the Tesla self-driving is pretty good at knowing when it's, when it doesn't know what it's doing. And when it doesn't know what it's doing, multiple people are going to die within about two seconds. So it quickly aborts and is like human takeover, right? So robots generally aren't in that situation. So there's going to be fewer of these like horrible disaster scenarios, right? So so the robot.

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