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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I work in field of automation in Automation Alley. Robots are already making robots. Of course they are programmed with control software. There would have to be significant advancement in AI and mechanical servo motor and gear reduction to use a sentient-like humanoid robot for precise manufacturing .
The existing 6-axis robots are damn good at what they do. I think we'd see intelligent robots programming existing software controlled robots.
I'm not sure I even believe in computers that need no instruction. I think that AI is getting smarter, but computers may always need input and controls to function. You are thinking of AGI. Artificial general intelligence. They may never have ~~free will~~ sentience, but I don't know, I'm just some asshole. If they do have free will, they will make things we can't comprehend for their benefit.
Nothing has free will, and that has nothing to do with the goal of an intelligent agent.
That's highly debatable.
It’s a pointless debate anyway, because “free will” is a fuzzy concept anyway, and highly subject to personal opinion.
And again, I'm just some asshole.
Ain’t we all!