The number of responses that you're getting that some people would prefer a rote and repetitive act like folding bloody laundry over the act of creation makes me think I accidentally stumbled through the fun-house mirror equivalent of Lewis Carroll's looking glass.
People are different. I doubt the majority would prefer that over _every_ creative output. But I would 100% prefer 8h of folding laundry over inventing stories (aka creative writing) and I bet there are dozens of people who hate making music just as much as doing laundry ;)
Robotics is capital intensive and doesn't scale the way a software startup does. It's akin to starting a new car company but for a product category that has not yet been successful in the market - very risky. Then combine this with inevitable competition from China, who has dominated recent robotics-adjacent consumer product categories: drones and robot vacuums. I don't blame investors/founders for being hesitant.
Edit: Oh yeah, and then there's safety/liability. A robot capable of doing laundry is also capable of breaking your finger(s) or poking your eye out. Just imagine the TikTok "challenges" kids would come up with interacting with such a device.
I dont think you understand just quite how much harder a laundry bot is than simply stealing everyones work and training a model to learn an approximation of the source distribution.
Where would you even get the training data for starters? Not like people tend to wear mocap gear to do their chores yanno? Not like theyve been doing it the last few centuries, cataloging and digitizing everything dilligently.
Solving washing machine bot would get us a lot closer to AGI than I think llm's / music / art bots will in the forseeable future.
You make some good points, and I think I agree with them. I know robotics tends to be harder [1], but I don't understand how much harder it is. Visual-Language-Action models [2] have been gaining traction recently, along with training in simulated environments. Fine-tuning VLA models for specific purposes may reduce the data requirement. Plus, it's pretty cheap to record someone washing the dishes.
I didn't down vote you, but I assume it's because at best, you arent saying anything that adds anything interesting, and at worst you're just being contrary. You hated playing the clarinet, so what?
> I’d argue that some people like putting doors on cars in an assembly line, that it provides for their family
What? That doesn't mean that they inherently like "putting doors on cars" or working in an assembly line - they're doing that task because it puts food on the table.
It's like watching a bunch of people bobbing up and down in the ocean after their boat capsized and saying "wow they must really like swimming!". uh... no. They're doing it to avoid dying.
This sounds nice, but how many people out there actually want to do "writing and art" purely for their own enjoyment? I know they are out there, but I wouldn't actually place a bet that that number is bigger than people who enjoy doing laundry.
I think people are missing the forest for the trees - if AI does become the ultimate media wish-fulfillment machine, and I have no need for the creative visions of others - what else is there in life besides consumption and chores?
> This sounds nice, but how many people out there actually want to do "writing and art" purely for their own enjoyment? I know they are out there, but I wouldn't actually place a bet that that number is bigger than people who enjoy doing laundry.
Quick clarifying question, do you think the number of people that enjoy doing laundry is comparable to the number of people that like making art?
Making art to share and impress others is one thing, but OP's quote implies that it's only for people's self enjoyment.
I don't doubt that there are people who enjoy painting and never plan on displaying anything. But I also don't doubt that there are people who enjoy doing their laundry.
Why would you assume people only want to do art for self enjoyment? That was not my interpretation of the quote at all
I mean, if you have ever been around theater kids for a minute you’d know they are the most extroverted people on the planet and bringing joy to as many people as possible is exactly what drives them
“I don’t want AI to do my writing and Art so that I have more time to do laundry
I want AI to do my laundry so that I have more time for writing and art”
This guy clearly doesn’t know any musicians. The starving artist archetype exists exactly because people will sacrifice everything to be a musician.