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Post by theplumber »

jldugger wrote: post #98
user_7832 wrote: post #64

I'm not sure why some comments here are so pessimistic. I was grinning ear to ear while seeing the video. You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? And the model is at least as free as beer? To quote the lyrics/meme, we used to pray for times like this . This is what robotics should be used for.

> You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? Did you watch it actually fold that shirt? Super slow and bad at it.

I am worse than the robot and I don’t mind if it takes 3 hours to do it.

Re: Xiaomi-Robotics-1

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Post by XorNot »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #236
XorNot wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God this whole comment section is weird. It's like all the people who are so proud they don't use dishwashers.

Nobody is proud of this. Where the hell did you get that idea? I think weak and scared people tend to not want to face the truth about AI. I said the above not because I support it (I don't), I said it because it's the god awful truth. All trendlines point to steadily improving AI, and tons and tons of people continue to call it slop even though it is clearly becoming better. My question for you is, in order to sleep…

No definitely weird.

Re: Xiaomi-Robotics-1

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Post by bob778 »

whilenot-dev wrote: post #160
user_7832 wrote: post #64

I'm not sure why some comments here are so pessimistic. I was grinning ear to ear while seeing the video. You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? And the model is at least as free as beer? To quote the lyrics/meme, we used to pray for times like this . This is what robotics should be used for.

> This is what robotics should be used for. I disagree. We should use robotics to extend our reach into hazardous environments, enhance our physical capabilities, or to provide a steady handling of things where it's absolutely needed - doing laundry in my household is none of these. Folding laundry takes me 10 mins every 10 days. I organize my closet once in a while according to my sense of fashion, and now I'll just…

Sure but the robots that extend our capabilities often start by replicating our current capabilities, even if those are as simple as folding clothes. It provides a baseline for the next generation of robots that can do more.

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Post by wolttam »

This is very cool, and the paradigm that scales to bringing truly useful robots to virtually all domains of life - just as LLMs have scaled to that degree across virtually all domains of knowledge work.

I picture a lot of perfectly tended gardens growing food.

Re: Xiaomi-Robotics-1

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Post by 21asdffdsa12 »

idiotsecant wrote: post #221
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every single thing that’s come out of China in the entire AI/Robotics space lately has been a massive net positive for the world Open Source is a good thing, regardless of where it comes from

It's also relevant that China isn't open sourcing results because that's something China will do forever on some philosophical grounds. They do it because it is currently in the best interests of the Chinese state (and the world, as it turns out, coincidentally) but as soon as that stops being true there is zero chance it'll continue to be open source.

Reminds me of the american reprint market for books back in the colonial war area.

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Post by torginus »

idiotsecant wrote: post #221
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every single thing that’s come out of China in the entire AI/Robotics space lately has been a massive net positive for the world Open Source is a good thing, regardless of where it comes from

It's also relevant that China isn't open sourcing results because that's something China will do forever on some philosophical grounds. They do it because it is currently in the best interests of the Chinese state (and the world, as it turns out, coincidentally) but as soon as that stops being true there is zero chance it'll continue to be open source.

Eh, I take what I can get. A lawyer doesn't argue that his client is innocent (though that might be tha case), because of some innate sense of justice, but because he gets to paid so.

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Post by resiros »

nitin7 wrote: post #33
resiros wrote: post #21

The video cuts to a new shot every couple of second instead of one continuous shot like all robotics research. This makes it hard to trust it. The robot probably failed a million team and they stitched the video from 100 experiments.

The video also tells you that there is an uncut video at the bottom of the page. Did you take a look at that?

Nope did not notice. Updating my comment

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Post by mwigdahl »

idiotsecant wrote: post #219
adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #212

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Genuinely curious, who is Donald Trump genociding? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by "genocidal fantasies"?

A fantasy is something you'd like to do but don't.

Sure, but the original comment said "living out" those fantasies.

Re: Xiaomi-Robotics-1

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Post by adjejmxbdjdn »

baal80spam wrote: post #224
mlrtime wrote: post #176

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There has not been a pro-US exceptionalism tone in any HN thread in awhile. Go to any thread recently and it's pretty anti-capitalism/anti-US.

I've definitely noticed even more than that - any submissions painting the current USA in a good light are instantly and mercilessly buried (you can check my submissions for examples), while anything even remotely on the "USA bad" side gets to the top. It's really a sad state of affairs.

You may take this as “USA bad”, comment, but let’s take the U.S. life expectancy reaches record high (in 2024) link you posted.

That sounds like a good thing and it is. But it’s not a US story. In fact, other wealthy countries didn’t just already have a higher baseline life expectancy pre-COVID, they rebounded to it post-COVID sooner than the U.S. was able to its already lower level.

So what this actually is, is a story of “global modern medicine good”, and unfortunately, even within that, the U.S. is among the worst performing.

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Post by h8hawk »

desterothx wrote: post #196
mlrtime wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There has not been a pro-US exceptionalism tone in any HN thread in awhile. Go to any thread recently and it's pretty anti-capitalism/anti-US.

In all open weight model discussions there is at least some anti-Chinese sentiment

They are likely Effective Altruists highly attuned to AGI (With current LLM's) risks, fearing an LLM uprising and human extinction, which they regard as the world's most critical challenge.
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