Weekly Buzz & Insights: AI Agents and Humanoids Don't Care About Work-Life Balance
December 13, 2024
This week, startup Artisan grabbed headlines in Silicon Valley’s crowded tech scene with a marketing campaign designed to make waves. Their billboards, plastered across San Francisco, declared bold messages like “Humans Are So 2023” and “Hire Artisans, Not Humans.” Unsurprisingly, this got people talking. The campaign has been a massive success, driving tens of millions of impressions, thousands of online comments, and hundreds of articles.
But, to be honest, this is a relevant and ongoing discussion. AI will take over jobs, and it could be not good—or it could be really good, making our lives better.
Also, this week, the first-ever Humanoid Summit was held in Mountain View, highlighting robots that might soon move into our homes. Norwegian company 1X Technologies presented humanoids as solutions to workforce shortages and an aging population. That is a good thing, but for me personally, it will take a while to get used to robotics looking like kinky characters from Star Wars. I can see myself in 30 years, waking up from a nap, a bit confused, wondering why C-3PO is in my kitchen folding laundry.
But maybe that is the trick to get the humanoids into homes. Elon Musk made EV cars fun to drive, so maybe the selling concept is to make humanoids fun to watch.
