"Robots are quickly becoming part of our everyday lives"

Are they really?

This capability will help accelerate robotics research, as it reduces the need for human-supervised training, and is an important step towards creating a general-purpose robot.

The future people are striving to build just seems so fucking creepy to me. I don't really understand the enthusiasm for it. Maybe I would if I saw said future and maybe it would be awesome and I'd regret saying this, but right now, I just don't get it.