I wouldn't be so sure about that. The technology for telerobotic labour is already here. This doesn't require any AGI breakthroughs, just wireless networking infrastructure and some suitably creative engineering designs.
Telerobots operated by humans from wherever the labour can be sourced most cheaply would make good economic sense in many cases, and provide an incremental route towards more intelligent robots. Even with intelligence considerably lower than the human level (more like guppy level) vision guided robots using algorithms similar in principle to those seen in the recent Urban Challenge are beginning to perform useful work which was previously only done by people, such as warehouse transport. On 11/11/2007, Edward W. Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's why I tell people the value of manual labor will not be impacted as > soon by the AGI revolution as the value of mind labor. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=64099356-9def11
