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Robot Brains Getting Super Smart at Doing Boring Chores!

Imagine if a robot could do ALL your homework... well, almost!

Hey future tech whizzes! Imagine if you had a super-smart robot helper that could do all the boring, repetitive tasks on your computer. Like filling out forms, organizing files, or sending out emails. Sounds like a superpower, right?

Well, some very clever people, including two famous inventors named Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, are starting a new lab called Prentis. They're trying to raise a whopping $100 million (that's A LOT of allowance money!) to make these robot helpers even better.

Their big idea is that soon, these "robot chore-doers" will be even more useful than robots that write computer code. Think of it like this: instead of teaching a robot *how* to build a car engine from scratch, we're teaching it how to tighten the same bolt 100 times perfectly.

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Based on reporting by TechCrunch.