The tech industry is soon going to need another thing to hype.
And that’s because A.I. ain’t likely to make big revenue gains for a long, long time – if it ever is the money maker that’s promised.
My suspicion is that the next hype cycle will be robotics. Why?
Because robotics is tangible. People instantly know the utility of a robot because they’ve been the focus of science fiction for the past 100+ years. For generations, the public has been sold on robots.
You can also tie robotics to A.I. and say, “Look, here’s the use case for the previous thing we hyped!”
OK but robotics is HARD.
@futurebird @atomicpoet not harder then actually useful AI. The imagined need to make them humanoid will make it much harder though.
Robotics is hard. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly hard it is. I mean, you may think it's hard to build a useful AI, but that's just peanuts to robotics.
