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'Jetsons' robot finally arrives: Sweater-wearing Neo Gamma android helps with household chores
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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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People can do this job, and better, and cheaper. Anyone who can afford something like this, and I think well into the future, can easily afford a house cleaning service. Also, people don't record everything they see and everything you say and upload it to corporate servers to be stored forever.
I’m with you 100% from the privacy and cybersecurity perspectives. That said, if they can be solved (e.g. at some point there will simply be no need for any more training data, and computers will be fast enough to do all the fancy stuff locally), I’d vastly prefer having an appliance do my housekeeping chores than a cleaning service.
They will become cheaper over time. In the future buying robots like these could be like buying a new car i.e. expensive but still reachable for most and for others they might be able to buy used ones.
But I dont have much faith in modern tech companies to not fumble this really badly. Will probably end up like the IoT stuff nowadays which have potential but are handicapped by cloud BS and enshittification.
But who will need one in the future? If we don’t have houses to clean or many clothes to fold due to being poor neo-feudal serfs.
Won't someone please think of the rising oligarch class? While poors are whining they will need their toys.