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Re: Gemini Robotics

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Post by moralestapia »

The problem with Google is that they keep putting out "videos" but almost ship an actual product. I'm not sure what's the end goal of this other than "get some people excited" or "justify R&D spend to shareholders".

This is a great achievement and I'm not underestimating the work of the people involved. But similar videos have been put together by many research labs and startups for years now.

I feel like Google's a bit lost. And Sundai's leadership has not been good for this, if we're honest.

GOOG is around the same price as it was in 2022, which means the AI wave went by through them with zero effect. With other tech companies doubling/tripling their market cap during this time, Sundai really left 1 trillion of unrealized value on the table (!); also consider Google had all the cards at one point, quite mediocre imo.

Re: Gemini Robotics

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Post by dormento »

mupuff1234 wrote: post #6

I would have thought that deepmind/Google would understand by now thay they need to release actual products and not just more promo driven blog posts.

If they don't release it, it'll be less work when they inevitably discontinue it.

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#13

Post by delichon »

I read too much scifi, and almost none of it has updated on the current state of AI. For example spaceships swarming with low skill level crew members that swab the decks and replace air filters. Or depending on a single engineer to be the only one with the crucial knowledge to save the ship in an emergency.

If scifi authors aren't keeping up it's hard to expect the rest of us to. But the macro and micro economic changes implied by this technology are huge. Very little of our daily lives will be undisrupted when it propagates and saturates the culture, even with no further fundamental advances.

Can anyone recommend scifi that makes plausible projections around this tech?

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Post by fusionadvocate »

Robotics has been trying the same ideas for the last who knows how many years. They still believe it will work now, somehow.

Perhaps it goes beyond the brightest minds at Google that people can grasp things with their eyes closed. That we don't need to see to grasp. But designing good robots with tactile sensors is too much for our top researchers.

Re: Gemini Robotics

#16

Post by yorwba »

whereismyacc wrote: post #8
metayrnc wrote: post #2

I am not sure whether the videos are representative of real life performance or it is a marketing stunt but sure looks impressive. Reminds of the robot arm in Iron Man 1.

i thought it was really cool when it picked up the grapes by the vine edit: it didn't.

Here it looks like its squeezing a grape instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyQs2OAIf-I&t=43s Bit hard to tell whether it remained intact.

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Post by jansan »

To me the part where the two robots clean the desk while the person is working would be a dream come true. This could easily increase my productivity by 100%.

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Post by mitthrowaway2 »

delichon wrote: post #13

I read too much scifi, and almost none of it has updated on the current state of AI. For example spaceships swarming with low skill level crew members that swab the decks and replace air filters. Or depending on a single engineer to be the only one with the crucial knowledge to save the ship in an emergency. If scifi authors aren't keeping up it's hard to expect the rest of us to. But the macro and micro economic cha…

The problem is it's hard to tell compelling stories without people.

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Post by [deleted] »

moralestapia wrote: post #11

The problem with Google is that they keep putting out "videos" but almost ship an actual product. I'm not sure what's the end goal of this other than "get some people excited" or "justify R&D spend to shareholders". This is a great achievement and I'm not underestimating the work of the people involved. But similar videos have been put together by many research labs and startups for years now. I feel like Google's a…

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Re: Gemini Robotics

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Post by hermannj314 »

moralestapia wrote: post #11

The problem with Google is that they keep putting out "videos" but almost ship an actual product. I'm not sure what's the end goal of this other than "get some people excited" or "justify R&D spend to shareholders". This is a great achievement and I'm not underestimating the work of the people involved. But similar videos have been put together by many research labs and startups for years now. I feel like Google's a…

I'm cynical, but several hundred thousand patents are issued every single year, if you don't get one then your competitors will.

You don't have to release a profitable product, but to compete over the next several decades you are going to need to own valuable land in remote territories where patent wars being fought today. I'm guessing Google's meta-strategy is a type of patent-colonialism.

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