Inside big tech's A.I. robot race

Big tech and robotic companies are continuing to create and train A.I. models to be functional for different roles in the future. NBC News' Kate Rooney takes a look inside big tech's A.I. robot race.
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[@samsungelec964]

Laundary IS being done by robots. Folding and sorting laundary are the new goals.

[@OfficialJoeyTV]

Alot of people in these comments fear and are just afraid. Times are changing so fast these days it IS scary. But I think theres so much good that can come from all this new tech! We'll find a way to make it work! Its bright and new! We need change

[@michaelmamic4682]

We can't be blindly pessimistic or blindly optimistic. Best we can do is move forward with caution and safety measures in place.

[@ProtoAlpha]

They watch too much terminator

[@CYBERPUNKDOLLXxXxXxXxXxXxX404]

Militech- USA Arasaka - Japan Kang Tao- china Techtronica- Russia

[@xploration1437]

Tesla

[@Darksagan]

OpenAi - World

[@_Executor_]

Destroyed by war - Mexico?

[@human_shaped]

It's just incredibly deceptive to say straight up that workers will all just become managers of robots. There aren't enough manager roles.

[@Omni0404]

I know, right? Those jobs will be filled by any C-suites under the age of 40.

[@KrustyKlown]

Robots making products for the Unemployed ?? ... worst business model of all time. /s

[@eSKAone-]

The world is reigned by kings, always was. Individuals and families that have more money that one can imagine. You never can earn that amount of money. When automation takes over, they won't allow the human cattle to procreate uncontrolled. There'll be an elite population of maybe a few million living in heaven on earth. It'll be also better for mother earth I guess.

[@DG-hw8it]

Jobs going away, people going away. 😁

[@KrustyKlown]

@@DG-hw8it Elon will upload people's brains to robots.. problem solved. /s

[@davidperry4013]

This is one step closer to animatronics that are capable of roaming family entertainment pizzerias in real life for interactive shows instead of just being bolted to the stage.

[@BLAISEDAHL96]

Remember when people were laughing at Tesla after the unveiling of their bot?

[@worldtoday9972]

and now everyone is doing it because they know once elon leaves behind u cant catch up and then the laughed when elon brought up vision learning and now everyone is developing it

[@Techmagus76]

still laughing at the king of fake.

[@kronosaurelius]

I imagine Boston dynamics's owner Hyundai looks at Tesla's robot with the same disdain Elon look at BYD ten years ago.

[@donnytheflow]

terminator or Wall-E future ahead? Place your bets, it's getting weird

[@e.v.k.3632]

Couldn't there be a good future?

[@Player2blood]

Wall e

[@Bigboss-xe6lm]

Why not both? Id like a T-1200 in a Wall E shell

[@appluattcicciriss]

There will be both terminator robots used in the military field and domestic robots used in people's homes. There will also be robots in factories performing repetitive/boring/harmful tasks for humans. There will be all shades just like any other technology. But if you are not willing to accept some negative aspects, you cannot enjoy the enormous positive ones.

[@jayjadotte1683]

Star Trek also has robots and AI

[@juliahello6673]

It’s the small tech companies that seem to be doing the most. Except Tesla which is big but acts small and agile.

[@aseanidmiller1238]

This

[@mattsparks5957]

Elon said that Tesla is using two Optimus humanoid robots in his factory in Texas

[@drsmetal2747]

Andrew Yang warned us about automation when he was running for president a few years ago.

[@OneLeggedDiver]

#ubi

[@andrerodriguez7603]

That is one major reason I changed my vote for him, to against him.

[@nataliemanzo34]

@@andrerodriguez7603can’t fix stupid

[@OneLeggedDiver]

@@andrerodriguez7603 because he warned us about automation?

[@andrerodriguez7603]

@@OneLeggedDiver I remember, he talked about loss of jobs as I recall. Something on those lines.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

Robotics is going to blow everyone away and change the world in every way.

[@scaryscarface]

You forgot to mention that most Chinese robots use open source software developed by US companies and universities to catch up/surpass US' robotic developments. Without it, they would still be way behind.

[@aaronchang7001]

That’s why most big Chinese branding companies like Xiaomi, Huawei, Xpeng, ….they follow Elon Musk’s steps closely. When Elon take any actions, Chinese rivals will copy and paste to their roadmap. US companies can make new thing happen (zero to 1) and Chinese ones are good at copying to 100 from 1 or 10.

[@rollbin]

@@aaronchang7001yeah American do the risk taking, Chinese do the scaling

[@urbanstrencan]

This tech is so fascinating 😊❤❤

[@kinngrimm]

Maybe a dumb question, are these and their parts 100% recyclable? So often have we seen products been pushed on the markets only to later see them end up in landfills. A lot of good materials will end up in these robots, could we maybe regulate and norm the extraction of those.

[@mattsparks5957]

Your first sentence was correct

[@_Executor_]

Not a dumb question

[@NoidoDev]

Idk, for sure. But I don't think you need to worry about it. These are most likely going to be long living, repairable and updatable products. The parts mostly made out of plastics or aluminum. Compared to other sources of garbage in simply not going to be much. People will also prefer the older models to be handed down to them, instead of going into the landfill, or at least getting the parts to repair their own. The biggest issue might be multi-material parts. I don't think this can be completely avoided. Burning such parts might make more sense than trying to recycle them. Mobile devices are being thrown out so much because electronics, screen and batteries are closely integrated into a small form factor.

[@kinngrimm]

@@NoidoDev Not sure if they have comparable or better cpu's as smartphones, but i would assume they are at least equivalent. Therefor rare earths are used. Already ressource extraction companies are scrambling to get onto the bottom of the occean to clean out rare earths there and leave behind a wasteland. Anything we build we should build in a way so we can get ressources easily back aka recycling. Not a novel concept by now one would think, but it is expensiv and therefor companies need to be made to keep that in mind at times otherwise they produce for landfills and the costs for that they don't have to carry.

[@Darksagan]

Ive seen this movie.

[@Lotsao]

This is only the top layer we're seeing, I'm sure somewhere someone is making even more advanced robots.

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

the robot that makes the robot

[@neofx22]

Westworld here we come

[@azhuransmx126]

Still "Remember" yesterday when people laughed of this future? *2004* No nephew, let me guide you, Matrix is ​​just a movie, it's just entertainment, AIs are not real😎 *2024* My uncle: 🗿❄️ 🫡

[@RyanIncoming]

4:54 had me dying bruh 💀

[@joelface]

Agreed. It'll be folding laundry WAY sooner, but I do wonder how long until such a robot is truly affordable, and can also do other tasks like cooking and cleaning.

[@vaticinus]

I've learnt my lesson about buying into the hype. I bought an electric in 2012. In 2017 they predicted that 80% of cars on the road will be self-driving by 2022. I don't see AI robots every replacing cheap skilled human labor.

[@NoidoDev]

Your last sentence has grammar issues. Ever or every? Also a lot of people don't want mass immigration, and human labor often isn't very cheap.

[@SeanKula]

That thumbnail looks like a smiling face.

[@stromharlan5187]

Thank goodness. I am getting so sick of doing the dishes, to be honest.

[@NoidoDev]

Dishwasher...

[@stromharlan5187]

@@NoidoDev Yeah, but i gotta stand there and load it. Then I gotta unload it. That's a lot of work.

[@Kr0N05]

"Robots were asked to do..." Maybe you meant 'tasked to do' . Right now it's all just very good programming; no AI yet.

[@chriswiles87]

UBI

[@ProtoAlpha]

YES!!! Mass adoption of automation will push us towards UBI curing poverty!😊❤

[@Dreamingofyou317]

Robots doing labour jobs, Ai doing low level ad mid level management. Guess I'll see you at tent city!

[@PhenixRyze]

"they'll move to managing robots!" Not unless you can code and repair, which the company will likely supply on their own. Your job is not safe.

[@TeslaNation001]

YOUR VIDEO IS VERY GOOD

[@Omni0404]

4:14 Oh that makes sense. All 1.85 million of them will become supervisors. It's not like huge swaths of the population will become unemployed through no fault of their own.

[@user-rx9rh1mq4o]

This guy gets the robot stories, ufo stories, what's next big foot

[@fupopanda]

What a sweet summer child. You're sleeping on two of the most important subjects of this decade. You'll realize how short-sighted your comment is before the end of this decade. Write that in your diary.

[@saturdaysequalsyouth]

People are scared of robots that can’t wash dishes or walk across uneven ground 😂

[@misurobando1266]

Elton musk is genius genius beyond

[@eSKAone-]

3:12 she must be a Terminator she's too pretty

[@jw999]

Besides advanced chips, where are we still better the Chinese??!!

[@mattsparks5957]

Humanoid robots can already do laundry but that guy said 10 years. People will be very surprised. Good thing I'm buying the stock.

[@jeffsteyn7174]

Elon trying to pump that stock price

[@nicholassmeelie472]

The only problem is robots build more robots and if you survive self replication and job displacement then there is deflation and abundance so what will organic life do for creativity and sense of purpose

[@U2B_Viewer]

1:32 no mention of Tesla 🤔

[@trevorhenriques7733]

Tesla bot is a fake, just like Elon Musk. Watch the Tesla bot “performing” any task. It has two arms but only one arm actually does any work. The other arm just hangs there like a decoration.

[@joelchang9589]

Interesting the reporter when asked only at the end states that China is ahead by a mile in humanoids but yet Chinese robots do not feature much in the report.

[@christophertavano2898]

i want one

[@donaldwood7968]

as long as it can weed our garden....,.

[@Magerquark]

How long will it be until rich households will have a robot helping out? 5 years?

[@NoidoDev]

Maybe. Yes. But the richer they are, the more they might stick with humans. Middle income people and retirees might go for robots. Some single males will have artificial girlfriends.

[@Magerquark]

@@NoidoDev true actually, they can still afford human help, which will probably be very luxurious in those times

[@jimmyalexzander1941]

Am very curious about the maintenance of these robots, how long do they last until they need repair, and parts replace?

[@mrtee3477]

Elon's bold prediction, I'm still waiting on self-driving when he said LiDAR is doomed. What happened to his chip?

[@human_shaped]

He's a serial liar conning people with sci-fi tropes, and committing outright fraud with regards to things he says they can already do (and they couldn't).

[@TheMagicJIZZ]

​@@human_shapedcan you name one lie? Working on something and not working out isn't a lie. It's just falling Trying and spending billions on self driving. You can't deny that it's FSD software is improving it doesn't work ... perfect What else? I'm genuinely curious tbh because unlike most CEOs he's the only one can make factories of robots because he's got the capacity unlike a startup Think about all the spaceX custom alloys for titanium and inconol You need factories to make mass robots lines. A startup could raise billions and fail I actually believe in the manufacturing robots needs Hyundai ( Boston dynamics) and Tesla because they have a real internal demand

[@TheMagicJIZZ]

Tesla does use LiDAR just internally by their own team but then sends the map OTA ( over the air ) to ever car So you don't need to spend money putting inside every car. The spinning ugly disk thing You can map the roads. Without it. Think about Google maps. Do you help make the map? You use sat navigation but you don't create map data In the future it'll be streamed because roads don't change everyday or every year

[@teelo523]

Have you not seen tesla self driving? It's pretty much there

[@OneLeggedDiver]

Someone hasn’t seen the new FSD update…

[@MichaelBohemian]

I'm surprised there's not one mention of Boston Dynmanic as they've been pioneering the robot interest for the last 15 years.

[@laStar972chuck]

The worst part is that people are so endocrinated by capitalism that they look at these robots in fear, not thinking it could be the tool of THEIR freedom and not their doom. It could be the tool to ensure UBI for everyone, move on to more interesting tasks and project. But for that we need to adress robotic issues that are FAR OUTSIDE the tech itself and robots. We need to adress the share of value, the sharing of incomes generated thru these robots...and the ownership regimen for these robots

[@teslabot5650]

6:06 thats creepy AF

[@nickdfrenette]

WHY?!

[@ForestNinjaZero]

They need it to look humanoid because they want to sell entertainment. 🤣

[@Izakokomarixyz]

at least they’re being realistic now saying it will take 10 yrs or more…

[@Richievaillant]

If a company is going to make robots that displace jobs they should have to pay into a think tank that is focusing on what happens next for those people. The lack of response about job losses, shows that, that company is not concerned. One person can manage the robots, yes. But what about the rest of the employees??

[@NoidoDev]

End of mass immigration.

[@infinitestars394]

Nice to see where this tech is going, but lets be honest... these things are slow AF and any untrained worker would be faster then those AI Robots. There is still alot of things to improve.

[@vinderesual]

the ideas future robot should using humanoid design is limiting

[@NoidoDev]

It's only one option.

[@vinderesual]

@@NoidoDev if so why not just make a baby instead

[@ZenRelaxASMR]

When robots will do all human work? 😮

[@NoidoDev]

This is widely discussed in some communities. Some work might always be left. Especially worldwide. Poor human workers are very energy efficient, especially in areas where they can sleep outside or in very simple buildings. Fun fact: The more developed countries are getting warmer.

[@meleejones]

Too busy in their studies and never watched any scifi movies.

[@Smile200-z4y]

Pessimistic much?

[@BD-shwvy1]

Starts in Salem hmm interesting… considering American History 😷

[@luvair6765]

Who is actually looking forward to this? Corporations and the Military are at the top of that list.

[@joelface]

The exact people with the budgets and power to make it happen. That said, consumer versions will absolutely be useful for everyone else as well.

[@NoidoDev]

A lot of people, I don't know the percentage. Less immigration necessary, artificial girlfriends will be coming too.

[@ProtoAlpha]

I am because it will push us to UBI

[@pratiknaikedu]

I am sure nothing will go wrong at all. /s

[@user-jgfdds56iigv7]

I wonder why no one wants warehouse jobs??? I'll wait for the conspiracies

[@Cleobonny6]

They are taking too long to develop theseb robots. I been hearing this decades but I'm seen the same robots and technologies

[@e.v.k.3632]

But now we have humanoid robots doing real jobs in the industry

[@Cleobonny6]

@@e.v.k.3632 humanoids I agree but nothing is looking like a human. These humanoids are like actors but nothing close thinking it would be identical to humans.

[@Omni0404]

Robotics today is much more sophisticated then 20 years ago. 20 years ago was ASIMO. Compare that to Atlas.

[@NoidoDev]

​@@Cleobonny6 You have different use cases in mind. Animatronics and companion bots are rather developed by small companies and individual creators.

[@YOURMOTHER-gt6lr]

what they dont tell you is that the battery is most importent thing and the battery we have today sucks !!!! ion batteris sucks !!!

[@ProtoAlpha]

We could solve charging time issue by placing smaller batteries all over the robots body, making charging super quick

[@Voicenreason247]

We can't keep roads paved and McDonald's ice cream machines running. This technology is not here yet.

[@nosult3220]

This just another reason to push for robotics lol

[@NakedSageAstrology]

China will win no matter what, Capitalism cannot survive automation. We may as well just work together.

[@dhammawiwekantara]

😂😂 who cares

[@바보Queen]

just make a fembot and it will be a trillion dollar company

[@bobtarmac1828]

Is it too late to cease Ai? Will everyone be… laid off by Ai? Suffering Ai jobloss for years? Swell robotics doing everything? Then everyone made slaves for an Ai new world order?

[@ProtoAlpha]

Nah UBI will save us

[@DG-hw8it]

I guess a wife and a bunch of kids come much cheaper. Plus you got your own mafia. ☺️

[@HardKore5250]

Elon Musk is a vaporware salesman. The news stupid.

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

everybody is stupid, not me

[@js6728]

oh they are making it to be a consumer thing, releasing dumb stuff, for the newer better and all at the cost of only 2x the price each time, and you must buy the something newer, its more money

[@sapaiyo9810]

Not sure why this video suddenly shows China's robot?

[@nicholassmeelie472]

Probably because in the US we have freedom of the press, which accompanies editorial discretion, which NBC uses poorly 😂

[@dhammawiwekantara]

​@@nicholassmeelie472 you don t think so

[@dhammawiwekantara]

😂😂 not really... Tesla 😜

[@kronosaurelius]

Every day Elon looks more like Elizabeth Holmes. Like, he already did not deliver FSD to people that paid $10K for the service. Its been so long some of them are dead today. I am not saying he can't deliver. I am saying he will deliver late and probably at the aame time as the rest of the industry. Tesla was a luck and BTW he is not the founder of Tesla. He smartly con the owners of the company out.

[@DodgeCoin05]

As a Ai engineer from nit Surat , I’m also excited for this ❤!

[@jeffg4686]

Did someone say something about covering up the upcoming socialism? Out with it. We know it's coming, and we're welcoming it. We're ready for it.

[@ProtoAlpha]

It's not as bad as people think it is, democratic socialism allows easy integeration with our current government

[@renesilva241]

No more jobs....

[@xcaliberVirus]

Just wait till they hack/jailbreak the 1st gen of these robots. Smh.....

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

Runaway (1984)

[@ProtoAlpha]

Hacking is a huge issue with these robots! The fact they communicate using wireless waves is a huge security issue

[@aceyage]

$25T 😂Musky is amping up for the next vaporware pump of his failing ventures.

[@3thinking]

Tesla fanbois will lap up all his lies and ramp the stock to infinity.

[@Dr_DrumsMD]

You are correct

[@TheMagicJIZZ]

Why not Tesla is worth $700 billion. Elon actually makes things He's an incredible entrepreneur. He knows how to build factories unlike anyone in the US. Not outsourcinf like GM Tesla is the most American car company with all their cars being 95% made in the USA and spaceX makes their metal alloys I actually agree with Elon's vision. Why would Nvidia hold the attention when Tesla makes chips like Nvidia and share the same partner TSMC Use your brain and think over 20 years If Tesla makes electric motors. How could a startup compete with Tesla or Hyundai who owned Boston dynamics You need a production line to make castings, motors and actuator's and chips

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

@aceyage how much did you lose shorting?

[@xploration1437]

@@3thinkingyou say fanboy like it’s a bad thing.

[@pauldannelachica2388]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@Crazyeg123]

i resent this network -12 yrold me

[@RayMelnik]

Seriously, China is way ahead you say? Tesla is far ahead of them all and is an American company.

[@ArchThaBoss]

No it’s not lol. Elon lies about Tesla to keep its overinflated stock value. He’s been saying “self driving cars will be here next year” for 10 years. China is making better electric cars for literally half the price. That’s why Elon doesn’t want them sold here. They would put Tesla out of business

[@SifisoMoabj]

Lol... According to you. But reality is different

[@RayMelnik]

@@SifisoMoabj - Don't get me wrong. China is doing great. I simply contend that FSD and the Tesla methodology is what they all will eventually emulate.

[@SifisoMoabj]

@@RayMelnik I'm saying you're wrong about Tesla being "far ahead of them all". Most people believe this because Chinese self driving tech is not as widely reported as Tesla, but trust me, Tesla isn't far ahead of Chinese competition in self driving technology lol. You can easily confirm this yourself... Just look up Huawei's self driving technology, and just look at how amazing the technology is. And Huawei isn't the only Chinese company developing self driving technology, a whole bunch of Chinese cars have this technology...

[@SifisoMoabj]

@@RayMelnik Tesla "was" a leader back then... And Chinese cars copied them. But those times are gone now. Tesla is definitely not ahead of Chinese companies

[@50lbhead30]

Elon musk is a danger to us all …… js

[@urimtefiki226]

If you are using my algorithm pay the royalties to me, 5 years are too much wating.

[@enigmaticons]

So ,China , making robots we can kick ….. 🫤

[@howardtibbsthethird]

OSHA is not gonna be the only one in charge of that. There will be an organization who sole purpose is to put laws and regulations in place and OSHA will sign off on them.

[@mike_w-tw6jd]

robot unions?

[@thr0w407]

Elon can say, "Our cars are semi sentient robots on wheels" and no one bats an eye? Is he allowed to lie like that? What small bit of sentience do they possess? He's stealing investor money with that hyperbole.

[@azhuransmx126]

And he is right bru, inside Teslas there are 2 GPUs that can run 10 Copilot LLM with more of 800TOPs those car's chips processes more of what you may think.

[@thr0w407]

@@azhuransmx126 nothing in an llm is even semi sentient, the cars could run a thousand of them and not be sentient. He shouldn't be lying.

[@azhuransmx126]

@thr0w407 and that's why machines will wipe out us as soon they feel they have the advantage 😋 Awareness is an Emergent Property.

[@azhuransmx126]

@thr0w407 He is referring with Sentience talking about SENSORS bruh, are you talking about... feelings or something??

[@Kwatch]

She shows her teeth way too much

[@ProtoAlpha]

... what are you a chimp? Humans all allowed to show teeth

[@1994CPK]

put a pretty female face and body on a robot and TESLA will become a 25trillion dollar company overnight.

[@stevemiddleton5278]

They are exaggerating and are lying to you. That female talking head is just a standard AI GPT software like chatgpt. It has nothing to do with humanoid robots.

[@bruceyung70]

Not cheaper. True reality is they have more better educated scientists.

[@Patrick-eu8xx]

Yea… cheaper😆😆

[@Ms.LisaDawn]

Going to Far.

[@NoidoDev]

You can't stop progress.

[@ProtoAlpha]

Not far enough

[@user-tx9zg5mz5p]

Humans need to unionize against ai and robots...

[@Omni0404]

Economics always wins.

[@aceyage]

90% wealth tax for anyone making more than 10 million dollars per year. Redistribute the money equally to the population.

[@azhuransmx126]

No

[@user-tx9zg5mz5p]

@@azhuransmx126 😂

[@ProtoAlpha]

Too bad i'm gonna be on the beach sipping on my drink paid for by UBI

[@marioz4500]

Big techs are eventually going to be big targets. Humans cannot coexist with robots like this.

[@NoidoDev]

What? Why?!

[@pedrorivera7931]

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[@user-zs8lp3lg3j]

Some of us like charisma & romance. Ai doesn't turn these words into sexism. Now if my Ai-Asian isekai desire wants to surpass you. They have my consent.

[@LoanLe-vn]

AI is Lied

[@Handsomemengame]

First comment 😊

[@user-mw8to4ng9i]

Not AI..machine learning

[@user-qu8lt3hf7e]

Ban ai

[@NoidoDev]

No

[@user-qu8lt3hf7e]

@@NoidoDev yup

[@ProtoAlpha]

​@@user-qu8lt3hf7ego ahead and try to. I'm gonna be chilling with my UBI😎

[@dhammawiwekantara]

Who cares

[@user-qu8lt3hf7e]

@@dhammawiwekantara u care