Marques Brownlee has put up a video about a US$20,000 robot. The company behind it claims it can do a whole range of household tasks 'through the power of AI', and will be delivered next year.

They even demonstrated a prototype to a journalist.

And the entire demonstration was being remotely controlled by a human operator.

And the company admits that, other than one or two simple tasks like opening a door, all tasks will be completed by a remote human operator. Those tasks will need to be scheduled in advance.

So.

Assuming this thing can be put into mass production, a huge if, it's basically a mechanical Turk.

Mark my words.

If this thing makes it to market, and that's a big if, the operators will be in a low-wage country.

It will almost exclusively be a way for rich white Americans to have human servants do their chores, without them being in their house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmodZ-5c

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