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Maybe I don't want a Rosey the Robot after all

I used to think I wanted Rosey the Robot to run my smart home, but now I’m having second thoughts.

“Building foundation models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems to solve in AI today,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said of the launch. Not to mention the various smart speakers scattered around my home, packing artificial intelligence inside, including one with a screen on a robotic arm that swivels to face you when you talk to it (yes, it’s creepy). Unsupervised mechanical devices moving around your home come with consequences, and the fewer responsibilities — and appendages — you give them, the less catastrophic those will be when things go wrong, and the better they will do the job they’re designed for.

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