The humanoid-looking robot would make it more refined, no doubt about that, but all these applications can do without it:
- Make it process customer-support requests.
- Make a virtual nurse for when you call the clinic.
- Make it process visa applications, particularly the part about interviews ("I know you weren't born back then, but I must ask. Did you support the Nazis in 1942? There is only one right answer and is not what you think!")
- Make it do job interviews. How will you feel after the next recession, when you are searching for a job and spend the best part of a year doing leetcode interviews with "AI-interviewer" half-assedly grading your answers?
- Make it flip burgers at McDonalds.
- Make it process insurance claims and ask bobby-trap questions like "did the airline book you in a later trip? Yes? Was that the next day? Oh, that's bad. But, was it before 3:00 PM? Ah, well, you have no right to claim since you weren't delayed for more than 24 hours. Before you go, can you teach me which of these images depict objects you are willing to suck? If you do, I promise I'll be more 'human' next time."
- Make it watch aggregated camera fees across cities around the world to see what that guy with the hat is up to.
- Make some low-cost daleks to watch for trouble-makers at the concert, put the AI inside.
In all cases, the pattern is not "AI is inherently devious and is coming for you, but "human trains devious AI and puts it in control to save costs".
- Make it process customer-support requests.
- Make a virtual nurse for when you call the clinic.
- Make it process visa applications, particularly the part about interviews ("I know you weren't born back then, but I must ask. Did you support the Nazis in 1942? There is only one right answer and is not what you think!")
- Make it do job interviews. How will you feel after the next recession, when you are searching for a job and spend the best part of a year doing leetcode interviews with "AI-interviewer" half-assedly grading your answers?
- Make it flip burgers at McDonalds.
- Make it process insurance claims and ask bobby-trap questions like "did the airline book you in a later trip? Yes? Was that the next day? Oh, that's bad. But, was it before 3:00 PM? Ah, well, you have no right to claim since you weren't delayed for more than 24 hours. Before you go, can you teach me which of these images depict objects you are willing to suck? If you do, I promise I'll be more 'human' next time."
- Make it watch aggregated camera fees across cities around the world to see what that guy with the hat is up to.
- Make some low-cost daleks to watch for trouble-makers at the concert, put the AI inside.
In all cases, the pattern is not "AI is inherently devious and is coming for you, but "human trains devious AI and puts it in control to save costs".