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Robots can do a better job of cleaning.


No they can't because it requires a surprising number of details to be able to do all the things a cleaning lady actually do. Getting in between the books, under the rug, up on the shelves, cleaning the toilets etc.

If a robot could do all that we would basically be close to a general purpose AI. We aren't even close.


And yet my Roomba gets tangled up with the rug fringe and stuck under the coffee table.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/15/poo...


Perhaps true, but one "robot" can do the job of 1,000,000 radiologists whereas one robot might be able to do the cleaning of 2~3 cleaners at best. It's a software vs. hardware scaling issue.




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