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Of course it will appear BS to you. That is why it works.
Why couldn’t this trick be pulled off two decades ago? After all autonomous vehicles has been well funded research since the 1980s the DARPA grand challenge being one of the previously most important benchmarks. I think you might just need a history lesson friend
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After all this time it's still a pain point just to pay them for a Gemini API key.
So crazy, at one point they had 3 different systems for interacting with Gemini, all with different auth. For a company that prides themselves on the smartest engineers, they really struggle with the basics
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I could not disagree more with the claim about no improvement in robotic actuators. The torque density and price of actuators has fallen dramatically since Ben Katz's MIT work on mini cheetah. The actuators on the Unitree G1 based on that work are powerful for their size and near quasi-direct-drive. The motors on the BD E-Atlas are completely passively cooled and appear to have really good torque density. Actuators h…
Exactly, the last year or two has been insanely innovative for actuators, with some new material combinations, approaches and multiple startups that are starting to scale up their innovations in this space. Give them a few years to sort out the vaporwares and the robotics revolution will begin.
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> this is very good if capital is effectively democratized Are there any indications to think it's possible in our world?
I mean, there's a time in history when the population successfully brought out the guillotines and made real change against centralized power.
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> We may be atypical, but my partner and I don't want to hire out a cleaning service and deal with the whole human component I kind of understand where the feeling comes from, but this also saddens me. What happened to our generation? We're scared of people.
Eh, I'm a pretty social and outgoing guy. I think its fair to have some reservations about people in one's own home. I'll admit I'm slightly neurotic in my own household in that I like things to be done a certain way. I'd also feel like I needed to maintain certain levels of tidiness to enable a traditional cleaning service to perform well.
I share those feelings too, it's self-reflective.
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Google DeepMind disbands its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold team https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098375
I won't comment much on this, but I'd say these articles are 2-3 years late and reduces the agency of the people, who in many cases moved to Gemini because they wanted to work on LLMs
This page is just marketing…more interesting is that: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/go... Success-rate of ~60% Accuracy: ~80% That’s pretty low and definitely not production ready
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This is absolutely not true check out Sunday robotics and their robot that folds clothes. Sunday robotics says it does holding of clothes correctly 99% of the time that is real world usage today. They even have three hour video of the robot folding the clothes.
They didn't mention anything about folding clothes so I suspect this comment is just an ad
we'll be having sex with robots in the near future
And then why voice it?