Those promising “general-purpose autonomous intelligent robots” are the same people who swore we’d have fully self-driving cars years ago and yet, here we are. In 2016, Tesla said every car it sold already had the hardware for full autonomy; nine years later, it still can’t drive itself from A to B without human babysitting at level 5 autonomy. Billions have been spent, thousands of engineers burned out, and mountains of hype delivered but not the product. The reality is that general intelligence, in machines or in mobility, isn’t a firmware update away; it’s a frontier we barely understand. So when you hear promises of household robots that think, reason, and act unsupervised, remember: they said the same thing about your car.
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