Why robotics folks stay quiet on AGI: dishes and laundry first, hype later
MannyKayy · x · 2026-09-11
filippie509: ten years ago computers beat humans at Go while robots fell over at the DARPA challenge; now AI solves millennium math problems while robots crash into a wall — Moravec's paradox holds up extremely well. MannyKayy adds this is why the robotics community stays silent on AGI/RSI: he'll buy the hype only when a robot can reliably do dishes and laundry in any house with no human in the loop — what looks like a small gap to the physical world is actually a chasm.
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