I find Sony's work valuable. In my opinion, the primary purpose of AI is still, first and foremost, to relieve us of the physical labor we don't want to do. The next step to be taken is to create a universal basic income. Evolution will then unfold, as creative people will be able to dedicate their whole life undisturbed to the problems they deem important.
Here a video where one can actually see the robot in action:
I agree with you. The people developing AI don’t agree.
UBI is a phantom. If (when?) AI takes over and everyone is put on UBI, the problems we'll deem important will be finding enough food to survive.
> In my opinion, the primary purpose of AI is still, first and foremost, to relieve us of the physical labor we don't want to do.
Why only physical labour? There might be a lot of admin or thought labour (non physical) that we don't want to do either.