Elon Muskannounced a humanoid robotdesigned to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing.
Musks robot is being developed by Tesla.
Dystopian sci-fi overtones aside, the plan makes sense, albeit within Musks business strategy.
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Together, these make a formidable toolbox for creating transformative technologies.
Musk imagines humans ultimatelytranscending our evolutionary heritagethrough technologies that are beyond-human, or super human.
In Musks telling, its a small step from human-inspired robots on wheels to humanlike robots on legs.
Impressive as this technology is, its proving to be less than fully reliable.
This track record doesnt bode well for humanlike robots that rely on the same technology.
Yet this isnt just a case of getting the technology right.
Teslas Autopilot glitches areexacerbated by human behavior.
Could something similar happen with the Tesla Bot?
The Tesla Bot comes with a whole portfolio of orphan risks.
For example, AI algorithms have producedsexistandracistresults.
Just because we can, should we?
But the audacious plans underpinning it are serious and they raise equally serious questions.
For instance, how responsible is Musks vision?
Just because he can work toward creating the future of his dreams, whos to say that he should?
And who will suffer the consequences if things go wrong?
