So remember that 12-year (or 10 or 500-year) prediction that Licklider made about AI machines being able to perform most military problem solving? Well, it looks like Stanford AI-junkies have made another prediction on a similar, more pedestrian use of AI: a chore-doing robot, a la Rosie the Robot Maid.

Do you think this robot is a feasible idea? I feel like IF made public and IF it experienced widespread use, the gap between the techonologically-speaking haves and have-nots would split wider than ever.

Also, how about their timeline? A decade?! That seems pretty ambitious to me, but maybe I'll be keeping my mouth shut come 2017 . . .