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How could you sleep with one of these in your house? How could you trust it around small children? If we see rapid advances in robotics will alignment become a visceral concern for the population at large?
"HERE'S ROBBY!"
/cut to door chopping and robot led eye lights ...
I stopped using my Roborock because it was such a pain to move everything out of the way (chairs etc.) so it could do a good job. Once I had a toddler, it was basically impossible to use. Given that this is a much simpler problem than a fully humanoid robot, I'm not going to hold my breath for those.
Your Roborock is not the state of the art. https://www.wired.com/review/matic-robot-vacuum/
I love the idea of robot helpers but I don't love the idea of putting cameras all over my house and having ad companies surveil my intimate space. I do not think people are even recognizing the security ramifications of these devices. A picture of your key is enough to replicate it[0], and yet we're just going to put these devices everywhere? LLMs have been pretty easy to jailbreak too, you think thieves aren't just…
>and having ad companies surveil my intimate space So don't buy one from an ad company then? There are home robots that run entirely on-device.