Forget Self-Driving Cars. They will be replaced by AI Humanoid Robots driving any car. And they will also cook your food.
Scott Marean
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) | FinTech SaaS | Global Leadership | Specializing in Technology Strategy, Cloud/Data/AI Modernization, and Revenue Growth
If you're old enough to remember when mobile phones first came out in the early 90's, they started as "car phones".? They required a lot of power, a separate antenna, and they were installed into your car as a permanent fixture.? Eventually the "portable cell phone" emerged, and it was a heavy lunch box with a handset on top… but you could carry it around!? I remember the first time I saw someone walk into a restaurant with one, and everyone was pointing and talking about it… that guy is talking on the phone that's attached by a wire to that big brick… how cool is that!?!
Fast forward 30 years, and we're all excited about self-driving cars.? It's so cool… you can install all this gadgetry permanently into a car, and it drives you around.? Well, sort of.? You can't put it into an existing car.? You need to build a whole new car with self-driving embedded into it from the ground up.?
If you haven't heard, AI humanoid robots are coming, and they're coming fast.? You should start taking videos of public spaces now, so you can show your grandchildren what it was like back when there were no robots.? They will wonder how we ever survived, because robots will do everything a person can do… including… driving any car.
Why would you buy a self-driving car, when you could instead buy an AI humanoid robot that can not only drive a car, but clean the house, cook your dinner, mow the lawn, teach your kids, and whatever else you need.? Why park your intelligent assistant in the garage and not use it 23 hours out of the day??
But, you say, the self-driving cars have 360 degree cameras and radar and lidar and they'll be better than a humanoid robot in the driver's seat.? OK, so then the robot takes out a little bag of magnetic/clip-on wireless sensors that it sticks around the car, then it gets in the driver's seat, buckles up, connects to all the sensors, and it has the same 360 view your old-fashioned self-driving car has.? And it can do with a 1990 Toyota Corolla.
If your mind isn't blown yet…
Guess what the ex-CEO of Uber is up to??
Let's take a step back… when the iPhone first came out, did you say to yourself, "this is going to kill the taxi industry"?? It wasn't obvious at the time, but looking back it makes complete sense.
So Travis Kalanick , the guy that figured out how to use mobile phones to create Uber is now… wait for it… using robots to cook food for humans.? His company is called Lab37.? Look into it.?
The humanoid robot company CEOs are predicting the average household robot will cost around $30k when they're released in the next few years.? Today, you can lease a $30k car for about $300/mo.? If you had an AI humanoid robot that could do anything a human can do… and it costs $300/mo, or $10/day… and it can operate 24 hours/day… that works out to about 42 cents/hour.? Let that sink in.? This is not low-skilled labor, mind you.?
If you can hire someone that is the expert at everything for 42 cents/hour, what happens to the world economy?? What will we even do at that point?? One thing that will definitely be needed… humans will still have to eat.
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So the ex-CEO of Uber, the great example of disruption that everyone always refers to, has already made the leap 10 moves ahead on the chess board and is working on using robots to cook food for humans.? Genius.
And I'm sure he'll deliver the food by a robot driving a car.? And why is that better than a self-driving car delivering the food?? Because the delivery robot can get out of the car, bring it to your door, ring the doorbell… and hand it to your robot.
Or maybe your robot isn't home, because you sent it out to drive a truck or do some other side gig to make some money for you… after all, it only costs you 42 cents/hour, and it can make a lot more money out there in the workforce when you don't need it around the house.?
Buckle up.? It's going to be quite a ride.
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Retired
2 个月I was looking at cars. Tested a BMW 3-series with parking assist. Thing could park itself - parallel and in a perpendicular parking spot. I didn’t like it at all. I felt a little trapped when it was doing its thing.
Head Of Technology (US & Canada) @ Beazley
2 个月Spot on. I increasingly see this to be a mainstream case in the next 5 years given the chips advancements we are seeing. Service industry will be embracing human+humanoid interplay, initiatially with humanoid in the loop maturing to human in the loop with increased humanoid reliance. Programming the humanoids is the immidiate need in AI engineering space underpinned by ethical AI constructs. AI programmers will program and train humanoids!
CIO | FinTech | Leadership | Transformation | Strategy | Cloud/Data/AI | Innovation | Visionary | Results | Board Member
2 个月Not 100% sure I like where this is going ?? It's going to be interesting to see how this unfolds.
Product Leader | Data | Fintech
2 个月I'm going to get my AI Humanoid Robot to press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on my keyboard to continue moving data from one LLM to another.