Personally I would rather shoot for a world where the ever present
nano-swarm saw that I wanted a cup of good coffee and effectively
created one out of thin air on the spot, cup and all. Assuming I still
took pleasure in such archaic practices and ways of changing my internal
state of course. :-)
I am not well qualified to give a good guess on the original question.
But given the intersection of current progress in general environment
comprehension and navigation, better robotic bodies, common sense
databases, current task training by example and guesses on learning
algorithm advancement I would be surprised if a robot with such ability
was more than a decade out.
- samantha
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