Not quite, but interesting
In the newsletter, Bari Weiss says “I Gave a Robot Access to My Apartment.” The actual title of the article is “Training Robots In My Apartment.” Which is closer to the thing. I don’t want to subscribe, so I didn’t read the whole thing, but the teaser was interesting enough.
She allowed a company to send two college students and a chef, to clean her apartment and cook her a meal. This they did for free, wearing cameras. The point of the exercise was to use the resulting film to train robots to do those jobs.
I still think we’re a long way out from functional robots for household tasks. And one of the college kids says to her, “What could happen, in 50 years, is basically all services and goods are free, or are close to free” and I don’t see a way in hell that works out. Who pays for the robot? Who does the maintenace? Still, worth reading the bit you get for free.
Have a good weekend, everyone!
June 12, 2026 — 6:24 pm
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