Huge funding round makes “Figure” Big Tech’s favorite humanoid robot company

Investors Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Intel value Figure at $2.6B.

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Why does all technical progress have a dystopian flavor now

 

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Pardon the pure optimism a few moments more... but a world with mass solar power, absorbing the suns energy, powering batteries, robots maintaining almost all of these devices and recharging themselves, helping to farm, clean, do dangerous work, deliver food, build buildings, repair roads, synthetic materials nearly as good as wood and non-renewable resources... The transition to this world will be like the integration of the internet into society. Rife with problems and vulnerabilities, but would we ever go back to a world without it?

That sounds great and all, but real humans, billions of them, have their entire short lives built around the current system. Some VC firm shouting "surprise!" and removing jobs one by one until we decades later are at a point where it finally applies to everyone is a recipe for mass unemployment.

I was in the graphic desig industry before. The digital version. When print died and the market was flooded with job seekers nobody gave a shit. We just got slowly mass unemployed over a period of two years. There was no magic solution.

The same boiling frog effect will happen here. Over several decades of cascading economic turmoil. We're going to have our lives ruined so some dipshit 100 years in the future can lounge around. I vote no to sacrificing my short life for them. There has to be another way to transition to this than relying on the mercy of profit seeking companies (they have no mercy)