About whether robots will be able to repair each other.
Has this happened?
Yes 3 (3%)Not sure 18 (16%)No 91 (81%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether robots will be able to repair each other.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Just like the Turing test turned out to be the wrong problem, AGI is the wrong goal. As long as AI can stoichastic parrot its way to success, who cares if it's AGI? My washing machine broke and I want my robot to fix it. it doesn't need AGI to diagnose and fix the problem, it just needs to have seen that in the training data.
The real shift comes when the robots are dexterous enough to fix each other. that's when no new jobs will be created to fix them because they can do it themselves.