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Elon Musk's beer-pouring 'robots' are more like puppets

The Optimus robots trotted out at yesterday's Teslafest aren't the social, capable, autonomous AI robots we're led to believe.
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Using AI to bypass reason
A weird genre of scammy posts anchored by bizarre AI images says more about humanity than technology.
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