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Nah they are still a long way off. I have watched the androids they have been making and the intelligence just isn't there. They can do limited tasks as long as nothing goes wrong but if something does, which it will, they can't solve it. You would have to program in every possible variable and it's solution. Until there is a vast improvement in machine or AI learning androids just aren't feasible. Just assembly lines with engineers watching things, they already took that step long ago so I'm puzzled why you think they wouldn't go further. As I said machines have no rights, you can make them work in hazardous situations that would require all sorts of legal paperwork and pay incentives for human workers. They don't require rest or time off, you keep raising initial investment which is a MINOR factor versus long term earnings. This is something wealthy business owners are more concerned with, they will happily lose in the short term if long term earnings are basically guaranteed. This is also a large reason why the poor stay poor because they can't or wont risk short term losses for long term gains. The "give me now" philosophy. They are also using machines in complex surgeries because the fine motor motor control is there now, even the steadiest of surgeons hands and assisted optics are just no competition for a robot. Granted it's still controlled by the surgeon because of the stated learning issues, the surgeon is still way more capable of figuring out what to do.
I really believe that if the learning problem is solved they will start rolling them out. The scary thing is the government which will happily replace all law enforcement and troops with androids they can program not to question their orders. They control the money fallacy so throwing about billions or trillions of money they created will have no impact, hell they can just make more. However there is always the chance that an intelligent machine can think around it's programing and do whatever it wants. Just a bunch of what-if's right now. Will be interesting to see what the future holds.