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Re:GPT-4o by bamboozled on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @08:53AM (#40354687)
I would expect a LOT of funds to go into research all sorts of actuators, artificial muscles and any other technology that will be useful in building better robots.

If you had an ASI? I don’t think you’d need a lot of funds to go into this area anymore ? Presumably it would all be solved overnight.

Re:GPT-4o by trashtester on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:21AM (#40356132)
Once we have godlike tier ASI, you're probably right. But I expect that robots could become extremely lucrative even when avaiable AI's haven't reached that point yet.

Companies that have a head start at that point, may get a huge first-mover advantage. Also, those companies also very well may have the capability to leverage AI in product development, just like everyone else.

And just as important as the products themselves is the manufacturing capacity to build them at scale. Until we have massive numbers of robots in service, building such infrastructure is likely to be slow and expensive.

EDIT: Also, once we really have the kind of Godlike ASI you envision, no human actions really matter (economically) anymore.