vc4devil
In Asia if a company were to do these things the business would be burnt to the ground, and/or family selling the inferior by design products.
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This is silly, the printer biz has always been 'give away the camera, and take the first born when they need film'
You go abroad ASIA and every printer ink or cartridge, as a bladder attached outside where you have an infinite pool of ink/powder for printing, you buy the printer, and walk out the store with the bladder attached.
Now only in the USA do they sell the SIM card for the phone by ID, or make it a felony to put free ink or powder in a printer. HP? Canon and all have been doing this for years, but why is it that in USA you still walk out of the store with a boxed printer that has cartridge with a 1/2 life of 10 prints and then the ink/powder costs the same as the original printer?
The USA like the Epipen fiasco is FULL retard on screwing people, HP is just on the band-wagon.
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From poor medical care, to Epipen, to all the silly things that USA/UK people put with, its amazing the CORP Fascist government has such willing lemmings to go along with this BS.
The general machine that really learn's in the wild, anything and everything is the holy-grail, but its also the 'free lunch'.
For now its better to develop gadgets and hack code that solves explicit problems, I think in time there could well be a wiki-expert, where a generalized machine could call upon the wiki-expert to solve the specific problem at hand, or call 100's of such agents, and the only task is to pick the best.
For now we don't even have the best answer's for the specific problems, let alone tools to manage the general problems.
A robot is just that, specific tasks, but is it human? No, its not.
RP Feynman some 60 years ago said "We can't program a dog, because we don't even know how a dog works". Nothing has changed folks, we still don't understand how the dog works, then only then can we have a robot-dog, and then we can talk about a humanoid robot.