I understand that it is not easy to relate to the author who pays (or was paying) $150 for a house cleaner, I understand that this is a 1-person history and may be highly biased, I understand the author is motivated to create a story from it.
However, if you think that any of the conditions described in the article are acceptable or that this is a fair price to pay for having AI, I think you are a horrible human being and I hope you'll be expelled from civilized society.
Is it, though? Can we really keep saying that "hardware will always be cheaper than human labour" when RAM prices are soaring, GPUs are becoming prohibitively expensive, and we're looking at a probably chip shortage?
I think the era of "poor software for fantastic hardware" is coming to an end.
Why do you believe they wont? I think it's reasonable to assume that we will hit a ceiling that current models will not be able to break.
> We have robots walking just fine now, by the way.
Walking and reasoning are unrelated abilities.