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Hey Gemini, tell me a story like my grandma used to. It’s called “Choke me gently”.
Grandma was clearly German. They have the best children's stories.
I find them a little Grimm
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#432If this makes it easier and faster to sort garbage, we could probably improve the efficiency of recycling 100x. I know there are some places that do that already, but there are so many menial tasks that could be done by robots to improve the world.
This is not going to be used for sorting garbage. That's just not how capitalism works
I disagree: capitalism will benefit from garbage sorting
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#434I always thought that Asimov's Laws of Robotics ("A robot may not injure a human being" etc) were an interesting prop for science fiction, but wildly disconnected from the way computing & robotics actually work. Turns out he was just writing LLM prompts way ahead of his time.
Not only wildly disconnected, but purposefully created to show ambiguity of rules when interpreted by beings without empathy. All of Asimov's books that include the laws also include them being unintentionally broken through some edge-case.
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Honestly I am so frustrated with the approach of "lets take a population of millions of people and ask them all to sort perfectly". 'Tis a silly thing. Some people won't care, some people will care but mistakes will happen, some people will care about money more and so will deliberately dump things in the wrong bucket. Get everyone to dump their crap into one pile and actually invest in industrial processes to sort t…
Picking up after your dog. Putting the grocery cart away after unloading. Shoveling the sidewalk in front of your house. Waiting to the side of the subway doors. Not talking during movies. We are asked to do hundreds of little things that mildly inconvenience us in order to maintain some social contract. Sure they could be made easier/nonexistent with better technology, but I: 1) don't see why asking people to do the…
> Picking up after your dog. Putting the grocery cart away after unloading. Shoveling the sidewalk in front of your house. Waiting to the side of the subway doors. Not talking during movies.
If 10% of people don't put their cart away, then 90% of carts still get put away. If 10% put things into the recycling bin that shouldn't go there, then 100% of that batch of material becomes unsuitable for recycling process unless expensive remediation is done first.
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#437I think plumbers are safe for a while.
> I think plumbers are safe for a while.
As a matter of fact,they may very well end up being the last bastion.
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#438Can you imagine what Google hcould have achieved had they not let “Astro Teller” burn it all up? If all the money that’s gone into X had instead gone to space tech could they have a 2nd place to Space X?
> Can you imagine what Google hcould have achieved had they not let “Astro Teller” burn it all up?
If you want to start a list of all the bozos Google wasted oodles of money on, you're going to be here a while.
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The cost of robotics is coming down, check out Unitree. A couple of robot arms would cost about the same as a minimum wageworker for 1 year right now. But of course they can go virtually 24/7 so likely 1/3rd the cost
Not the OP, but I think you might have missed their point, which I think was: if robots take away people's jobs, how will said people afford robots.
Nobody is doing house chores for me or remaining 99% of population...
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It doesn't get any better than this right now. And it won't ever get any worse.
You sure about that? Google Search is backed by a pretty big-serious ML model, and it's gotten a lot worse in just the last few years.
There are other search engines that are on par with Google search from a few years ago. Brave search is particularly good.
These were developed without the big bucks, so the tech has improved for smaller players at least.