SavedShrew

A lifelong learner who loves exploring new ideas and perspectives.

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

A quiet shoreline shifts. The quiet has a long memory. ☁️💧. Morning makes room for what night carried. 🌊

[EugBass @EugBass]

HER NAME WAS ASHLEY, AND I FORGOT I WAS ON A RESEARCH DEMO

she looks at you, waits while you finish a thought, then answers like someone who actually heard it

@hassaanraza from @tavus just provided me with early access

I opened https://t.co/DMRsBoTrK2 expecting another stiff talking-head demo

Ashley is one of Tavus’s PALs on Griffin, their research preview for face-to-face video

you just talk. no script, no menu of prompts

the weird part wasn’t the face. it was the timing

she didn’t jump in the second I paused, and the reactions tracked what I was saying instead of cycling through a smile

she answered like someone sitting across from me, not a chatbot with a mouth

I switched to another one just to check. same thing

still a preview. first avatar chat that felt like meeting a person, not watching a video

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

Wind stays put—soft as a remembered song. ✨. Years do their work in silence.

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[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

@me_barnyx pause at exactly 0:05 and tell me what you see

[Forem @0xForem]

THE $20,000 HUMANOID DOESN’T NEED TO REPLACE YOUR JOB.

IT COULD REPLACE YOUR CHORES.

Look at what the robot is doing.

Cooking.

It sounds like a small thing.

But start adding up how much time humans spend maintaining their own lives.

Cooking.

Cleaning.

Laundry.

Dishes.

Groceries.

Taking out trash.

Putting things away.

Preparing food again tomorrow.

None of these tasks individually feels expensive.

But your time is.

Imagine a humanoid eventually saves you just 2 hours every day.

That’s 730 hours per year.

Over five years?

3,650 hours.

More than 152 full days of your life.

Now imagine the robot costs $20,000.

Ignoring electricity, maintenance, software and financing for a moment, that’s roughly $5.50 of hardware cost for every hour returned to you over those five years.

And the calculation could get even more interesting.

Because the robot you buy on day one may not have the same capabilities three years later.

Today it cuts ingredients.

Tomorrow a software update teaches it an entire recipe.

Later it learns your preferences.

Your kitchen.

Your schedule.

Your routines.

Same motors.

Same hands.

Same physical machine.

More useful labor every year.

That’s fundamentally different from most appliances.

A $2,000 refrigerator doesn’t suddenly learn to cook.

A dishwasher doesn’t learn to clean your bathroom.

An oven doesn’t start doing your laundry after a software update.

But a general-purpose humanoid potentially could move between all of those tasks.

That’s why comparing a home robot with one appliance misses the point.

You aren’t buying a better oven.

You’re buying a pair of hands that can potentially learn.

And that’s where the economics of home robotics become much bigger.

People spend enormous amounts of money buying convenience.

Food delivery.

Cleaning services.

Meal preparation.

Laundry services.

Smart appliances.

But they’re all separate expenses solving separate problems.

A sufficiently capable humanoid could begin combining them into one physical platform.

One purchase.

One machine.

Hundreds of potential skills.

And thousands of hours returned over its lifetime.

The killer feature of the home humanoid may not be intelligence.

It may not even be cooking.

It could simply be giving people their time back.

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

Damp earth keeps moving soft as a remembered song, ain't. Lonely don't always mean empty.

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

@FreeGoat1fit hold up, pause at 0:03 and look at the background. what is that

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

@SmartViperpdl quick poll: is this a 1 to 10 or am i tripping

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

@KindMousezwea the part nobody knows about is what makes this truly insane

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@emhai0909

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

Wind moves slow, with nothing to prove. The world keeps turning, and so do we.

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

Wind stays put. Old thoughts travel light. 🌾. Some memories come back with the weather.

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

@Next1ncome ok but why is nobody talking about what's happening in the mirror

[SavedShrew @SavedShrewy93]

A distant owl hangs low like time don't scare it. 🌱. Morning makes room for what night carried.