About the commenter's bar for a tech singularity: an AI that cleans a toilet.
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About the commenter's bar for a tech singularity: an AI that cleans a toilet.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
But, as of right now, LLMs can't generate new knowledge
my bar for tech singularity is an AI that can clean a toilet.
GPT's language model is already sophisticated enough to "understand" this instruction. It's missing spatial understanding and a way to interact with the real world, but I'd be honestly very surprised if there isn't a GPT or equivalent already hooked up to cameras/motors/actuators in a lab somewhere.
within our lifetimes we'll be reading papers with titles like: "does my roomba have feelings?"