• Zorque@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Isn’t the point that we don’t bother looking into those specialized machines and tools because why bother when we can just throw meatbags at it?

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      8 months ago

      There are plenty of people working on automation for manual tasks, but it’s a really hard problem. Making machines that can move around freely and are compact as humans is really hard. Automation works really well on assembly lines where parts can move to the machine.

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      8 months ago

      But this is total nonsense because those tools are getting developed and have huge budgets. Many of them are already on the market and in use, especially remote control cutting tools.

      Far more money has been invested in self drive and ambulatory robotics than image gen, it just so happens image gen is far easier than walking or using a saw.

      Gpt 5 is coming around October and I think it’ll likely be the version that is able to effectively create task based workflow so it’ll be able to set up simulation training to evolve kinematic solutions within a framework, basically the thing we need robots to be able to do. When that’s possible you can expect to see a big boom in multiuse robotics.

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      8 months ago

      The image generator AIs are a byproduct of image recognition AIs, they’re related.

      Image recognition development is fundamental to advanced industrial automation. We’re getting there, the media is just not covering that part because it’s more fun to write an article about stupid computers thinking we have 6 fingers than about false positives dropping 2% because of some new development