Ben Goertzel: an AGI breakthrough could compress warehouse robotization from years to months
bengoertzel · x · 2026-10-31
Ben Goertzel comments on an article about how Amazon's human warehouse workers and robots interact in complementary ways. He notes the article's tone implies whatever robots can't do now may be indefinitely far off, but argues the real variable is who drives robotics development: with humans rather than AGIs, robotizing the remaining warehouse work will take years — yet once there's an AGI breakthrough, that timeline should compress to a quite small integer.
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