Twenty years ago, some savvy engineers created the Rumba. It’s a kind of annoying overpriced vacuum cleaner, but you can at least see the edges of a useful appliance.
Ten years ago, everyone was smelling their own farts about the advent of autonomous taxis. And, idk, we can at least pretend we’re in the ballpark right now.
Today, it’s noticeable how AI feels like a surrender on actual autonomous machines. Like, the idea of doing actual robotics is out the window. We’re only going to spend our money on a solved problem - data processing - and see what we can wring out of it.
I do wonder what this will mean in another ten or twenty years.
Yeah, that robotics stuff is happening still (e.g. little robot mowers using machine vision for easier guidance).
But you are right that the prospect of advanced robotics gets a fraction of the attention that chatbots get. Trillions of bets on datacenter bound LLMs that can generate images, videos, and text but a relative pittance for advancements that would translate to physical labor…
I get that there’s value, but the value proposition seems way out of whack.
So this is scary. We already know that POTUS has no quams about using ai to make shit fake videos. I would be surprised if his plan for indefinite term is actually chat gpt plan.
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Twenty years ago, some savvy engineers created the Rumba. It’s a kind of annoying overpriced vacuum cleaner, but you can at least see the edges of a useful appliance.
Ten years ago, everyone was smelling their own farts about the advent of autonomous taxis. And, idk, we can at least pretend we’re in the ballpark right now.
Today, it’s noticeable how AI feels like a surrender on actual autonomous machines. Like, the idea of doing actual robotics is out the window. We’re only going to spend our money on a solved problem - data processing - and see what we can wring out of it.
I do wonder what this will mean in another ten or twenty years.
Yeah, that robotics stuff is happening still (e.g. little robot mowers using machine vision for easier guidance).
But you are right that the prospect of advanced robotics gets a fraction of the attention that chatbots get. Trillions of bets on datacenter bound LLMs that can generate images, videos, and text but a relative pittance for advancements that would translate to physical labor…
I get that there’s value, but the value proposition seems way out of whack.
So this is scary. We already know that POTUS has no quams about using ai to make shit fake videos. I would be surprised if his plan for indefinite term is actually chat gpt plan.
Ps. Chat gpt DOES actively try to manipulate you.
No, it doesn’t “try” to do anything. Don’t antropomorphise it.
No your just not sharp. Chat gpt actively tries to copy your vernacular, To relate to you. Ask it next time.