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Still no flying cars (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by prafeuriz@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

            
              Flying cars - impractical
Jetpacks - do exist, but limited to trained operators in special locations
Robot butler - robot waiters already exist, so it wouldn't be terribly difficult to repurpose one (although they're only sold to businesses as far as I could tell)

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

The amount of times I've thought about liberating one of those sushi waiter bots you see sometimes is more than zero.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Robot butler - robot waiters already exist, so it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to repurpose one (although they’re only sold to businesses as far as I could tell)

There's an Asian AI lab that's demoed an early version of an AI-driven humanoid robot domestic servant. There are suggestions in might hit market within a few years and cost about as much as a decent used car. Figure those estimates are always too optimistic and something like 2035 and $15k is a possibly realistic estimate assuming nothing goes catastrophically wrong.