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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40641106

In 2000 Avery Brooks did some television commercials for IBM:

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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:

NPR timelapse gif animation from 2015 of BRETT the "Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks" taking 10 minutes to fold a towel

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!

[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

If only investors would dump 1 trillion dollars into this instead of ChatGPT.