Kevin Surace says the tipping point where robots beat humans isn't coming, it's already here. A $25,000 robot does far more work than a million-dollar one and can double its capacity with a software upgrade in a year. It pays for itself in twelve months, then runs free for two decades.
So the tipping point isn't near, but it's actually here. We saw the million-dollar robot. Here's the $25,000 robot. It does much more than the million-dollar robot did, and with a simple software upgrade, doubled its capacity in 1 year. Can you double your capacity with a software upgrade in a year? I can't. This is faster than any human can do the job, and it pays for itself in 1 year, and after that it's free for the next 20. So now we're reaching a tipping point where the technology as a whole— computers, sensors, robotics, and communication— are faster, smarter, more reliable than humans already today. They'll work all the time, far less expensively, and they're factual. They don't lie and they don't guess.
