AI-Powered Robots’ Limited Capabilities Still Open Exciting, Scary Futures

While intelligent robots aren’t likely to take over the world anytime soon, they could change key domains of modern civilization, boosting economic efficiency and day-to-day convenience while unleashing ample potential for misuse, according to several experts.
In recent years, the world has been rocked by riveting advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, from ChatGPT composing poetry and autonomous Waymo cabs traversing San Francisco to Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas performing acrobatics.
On a more sinister note, the war in Ukraine has previewed some of the lethal potential of unmanned vehicles.
Such advances may conjure a notion that humanity is on the cusp of creating a robot that could compete with humans in real-time agility and intelligence. Yet that expectation is unrealistic, several AI and robotics experts have told The Epoch Times….

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