my main concern is that in an interview with lex, he said he would be using all of the camera data as training data. This means they are going to capture peoples personal lives and have it stored on their servers somewhere, audio+video and all.

As much as I would love this thing to do my laundry, it’s too much to have an insanely invasive spyware device in your home or at work. 

 A 100% with you on this one. They need to strengthen the privacy regulations and only test on people giving content to be recorded or overheard! 

 Meta is being very careful with their AR glasses for instance, when it comes to face detection & voice recording… 

 I have serious issues with the anthropomorphisation of machines; i get they are modeled after the human body because it is a sensible way to interface with the outside world (mostly because it is already structured for us humans). I can also (somewhat reluctantly) understand that 'talking' like a human is a nice/simpel way for us human to interact with the machine.

But the thing does not need to emulate emotions, does not need to say 'euh' and whatnot while speaking, does not need a 'face' with emotional expressions, and sure as hell does not need a creator that suggest the thing could be your friend. 

People designing these things (not just robots, much of the AI stuff as well) with the notion that not able to differantiate between it and a real human is the holy grail/goal, because it smoothens out interactions, are very dangerous. 

 I agree, although it must be easier to interpret a robot in its “human-like”, rather than an “animal-like” form. And I guess it’s up to you to decide whether you interact with it as friend or an assistant 😁