The Coming Humanoid Robot Revolution
You will be obsoleted, sooner or later. Plan accordingly.
Once upon a time, back when neckties still meant something and MBAs were issued like religious relics, a man could look down from his ivory PowerPoint deck and spot his place in the human pecking order like a hawk eyeing a rat. The suits had swagger. The blue collars had grime. Everyone knew who was who, who they were better than. The system was calibrated: GPA, job title, the car you parked, the watch you flashed, the house you bought. A neat little stack of social strata held together with money and bullshit.Enter the age of silicon, steel and the multi-modal model.
The Humanoid Robot or “Bot”, AI in physical form, made from the marriage of metal, motors, gears and software. You stand a bot next to a human, any human, it doesn’t matter if they’re a brain surgeon or a barista and they ...
Once upon a time, back when neckties still meant something and MBAs were issued like religious relics, a man could look down from his ivory PowerPoint deck and spot his place in the human pecking order like a hawk eyeing a rat. The suits had swagger. The blue collars had grime. Everyone knew who was who, who they were better than. The system was calibrated: GPA, job title, the car you parked, the watch you flashed, the house you bought. A neat little stack of social strata held together with money and bullshit.Enter the age of silicon, steel and the multi-modal model.
The Humanoid Robot or “Bot”, AI in physical form, made from the marriage of metal, motors, gears and software. You stand a bot next to a human, any human, it doesn’t matter if they’re a brain surgeon or a barista and they will be hit with the cold truth: with a tweak of the code, that bot wouldn't just match them; it'd leave them in the dust. Smarter, stronger, more reliable, more flexible and most importantly, cheaper. Cheap labor that doesn’t sleep, doesn’t strike, doesn’t take lunch. It'd outperform a human as a lawyer, a surgeon, an athlete, even as a lover, with the right hardware modifications that is.
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That's a hard hit to the human ego, finding out you're second best in a race you thought you were running alone. It’s not that the bots hate you. Hate takes processing cycles. They don’t care. You’re just a meat obstacle. An edge case in their runtime. Humans are just part of the scenery, background no...
