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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40641106
In 2000 Avery Brooks did some television commercials for IBM:
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2025
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This legit hits hard, even today.
We are waaaay the fuck in the future, scifi-wise. It's about to be 20-fucking-26. I was promised so many awesome things.
"Best I can do is AI that writes music and paints and writes novels for you, you know, all the stuff humans consider fun"
Fuck it, just have AI play our video games and watch our movies for us so we have more time to do dishes and laundry. IT'S THE FUTURE. I SHOULDN'T BE DOING DISHES OR LAUNDRY. What are we even doing here?
WASHING MACHINES EXIST
JFC, it's the flying car problem. We have flying cars, they're called helicopters.
How come everyone on lemmy thinks after you put your dirty clothes in the washing machine that the machine magically folds your clothes and puts them away?
Tell me you don't wash your own clothes without telling me you don't wash your own clothes.
Holla at me when there's an AI clothes robot.
It's a hard problem, but some of the scientists of all time are working on it:
It took a decade for FoldiMate to admit defeat and declare bankruptcy, but Laundroid accomplished the same task in only four years - so, soon, we could have robotics companies able to give up in under a year!
If only investors would dump 1 trillion dollars into this instead of ChatGPT.