• GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    1 day ago

    Genuine curiosity and something I've asked many people who have said they want a robot. What for?

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        1 day ago

        Why would you want that and how would you expect that to happen? How would you know you've accomplished this?

        • xj9 [they/them, she/her]
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          1 day ago

          For me, it would be like having a kid. I'd raise them and we'd hang out until they develop an affinity for independence and hopefully they wouldn't hate me.

          Tech wise they'd need a building sized supercomputer to update their neural net in real time as their context fills up with independent power so basically a proto starship. Nobody really knows how to create embodied sentience, but a sex bot and a dedicated TPU cluster would probably be a good starting point.

          Maybe when they're grown we can make ghost guns together and discuss political philosophy idk

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        1 day ago

        I feel like for that something more like a roomba that is specialized for a task and more importantly not shaped like a human is the best option there. I feel like having your labor robots be human fascimilies is kinda weird. Like Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons is basically a slave. She can make quips! I'd feel weird having a humanoid robot like that taking orders from me.

        • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 day ago

          Sorry, I assumed roombas were robots. I didn't mean humanoid robot exclusively. Honestly, I'd rather have a grey goo nanobot fleet that could shape change.

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            1 day ago

            Fair enough. I'm a sci fi brained nerd and humanoid robots in Sci fi always bugs me unless it's something like Data where the purple was to see if you could make a human robot. Otherwise just have a child.

        • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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          1 day ago

          There are tasks only humanoids can do, like get boxes off of high shelves, open them and move things around. Idk there’s a million varied aspects of domestic labor and only something tall with at least two limbs with good manipulation and dexterity could achieve

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            1 day ago

            That's because we designed houses for human use. Redesigning kitchens with built in robot parts that has a differen design than a standard kitchen meant for human use is way more likely and practical than bipedal robots designed like humans.

        • blame [they/them]
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          1 day ago

          once roombas figure out how to properly get the crumbs under the kitchen counter it's over for us all.