• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    13 hours ago

    While I understand the meaning behind the quote, the quote itself doesn’t make any sense.

    AI isn’t necessarily generative image systems, that’s just one category of AI. Currently there are no commercially available robots and the ones that do exist can’t do domestic chores with any degree of reliability.

    It’s a lot easier to get AI to generate images than to get it to make your bed. So the quoter is demanding it do the hard thing, rather than the easy thing.

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      8 hours ago

      can’t do domestic chores

      My robovac is pretty good at domestic chores, no LLM involved tho. My dish and clothes washing machines also do a better job than I could by hand, and only require me to load and unload them.

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      13 hours ago

      Yeah, in all honesty, it’s not really my ideal as a quote to capture the idea. Among other things, it’s comparing what is for the quoted person, household tasks and employment, whereas I’d generally prefer employment vs employment for most of these.

      And for the quoted person, the issue is that AI is doing work that we tend to think of as potentially-desirable, rather than in the context I’m writing about, where it’s more that science fiction often portrays AI-driven sex robots that perform for humans (think Blade Runner or A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)), but doesn’t really examine humans performing for AIs.

      Still, it was the closest popular quote I could think of to address the idea that the split between AI and human roles in a world with AIs is not that which we might have anticipated.