Easy to laugh now, but think where we were with this stuff ten or even five years ago. Where do you think we’ll be in another 5, 10, or 20 years from now?
Elon Musk is making HUGE investments in this area.
I’m sure they laughed at the Wright Brothers, too, back around 1902-1903.
No robot shall ever run faster than 21 mph, for if it did it would surely suffocate.
“Where do you think we’ll be in another 5, 10, or 20 years from now?”
More jobs now done by us humans will be done by brainy, brawny machines. Note also that human employees are expensive with their expected bennies that machines don’t need.
There are two frontiers now: the enormous data centers, whatever they’re doing, and robots.
Also there’s more and more surveillance, facial recognition, license place reading.
"Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly", New York Times. , October 9, 1903
[It] might be assumed that the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years... No doubt the problem has attractions for those it interests, but to the ordinary man it would seem as if effort might be employed more profitably.
https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=301 has a more complete version.
Ironically on the day this was published, the Wright Brothers were starting to unpack and assemble the plane they brought from Dayton, Ohio to Kitty Hawk, NC.