For factories and closed environments, stuff is getting good fast, but for the rest of the "real world", no robot or AI is practical without human supervision. I automate physical things for a living and have thus become convinced.
The first thing that robot will do is start a dryer that a toddler climbed into because it isn't that aware of the world around it.
And that will be the end of general purpose domestic robots.
That or knocking over candles or fucking up something else simultaneously trivial and terribly dangerous in context.
I dream the same dream of a general purpose machine, but I think it may never be possible, and if it is we're a long way out.
The first thing that robot will do is start a dryer that a toddler climbed into because it isn't that aware of the world around it.
And that will be the end of general purpose domestic robots.
That or knocking over candles or fucking up something else simultaneously trivial and terribly dangerous in context.
I dream the same dream of a general purpose machine, but I think it may never be possible, and if it is we're a long way out.