Humanioid Robot company, FigureAU, has received $675 million in funding from a group of investors, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, OpenAI and Microsoft.
They are not only powerful investors but strong partners for the development and rollout of humanoid robots.
I, Brian Wang, described the massive investments coming into humanoid bot from all of the Big Tech and other players.
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God made man in his own image, and it’s happening again. There has to be a reason all the aliens in Star Trek are humanoids with a few bumps on their heads or pointy ears. Also, UFO occupants are mostly humanoids. Someone is going to put these facts together and arrive at a definitive conclusion.
Fear of Elon and Tesla Optimus robot
exciting times.
I look forward when I can retire early, and I’m not forced to bust my ass for a meager paycheck to scrape by.
That sounds good to me too until I start to wonder who will be giving me money to keep me alive—effectively a pet. Both governments and private enterprises have, over various periods of time, shown themselves willing to revoke what I would consider essential services to enforce their own politics on us. Whether it’s banks and credit card companies cutting off services to people involved with wrong politics or governments creating so many laws that no one can be truly “law-abiding” so they can selectively enforce laws to control people. Just think at how much easier it will be to do that if we are dependent on governments for income instead of them needing us for taxes or if corporations do not needing us for labour.
Free lunches are never free.
Not that I’m really worried about tech induced unemployment. There will always be things for humans to toil at. Probably cleaning up after robots and doing things that are too dull, dirty and dangerous for robots to do.
I have also wondered, a great deal about our future. Every road leads to UBI, likely 2030, likely 2-3k per person 18-∞.
That’s not even the crazy part, BTW, that will be funded through companies using robots, a tax on every robot they employ in their factories, warehouses, etc.
The crazy part, is money itself, will disappear, becoming completely irrelevant in 20-30 years. In a word, Utopia.
The hardest things humans will have to do, is not go crazy. We need a purpose, and if a humanoid robot can do everything better then you, why do it at all. A humanoid robot with AI will be better suited to explore the oceans, other planets, or just building a bird house here on Earth. Ironically, us having it all, could lead to us disappearing as a species.