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Post by corobo »

zppln wrote: post #126
zzzeek wrote: post #22

Saw a great toot yesterday. Startups and media business are looking to make a windfall on AI generated art, music, code, writing, and other services. The payment models will be subscriptions, pay per use, and other models that make more money the more content is produced. But there's still no AI (with associated mechanics) that can fold laundry. (I think the latter would be really useful.)

I'd be happy just to have the moving of wet clothes from the washing machine into the tumbler automated. But not even this science can provide. :(

I've had a combo washer dryer ever since moving out of my parents place lol

You gotta also buy the things science provides!

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Post by artur_makly »

_xnmw wrote: post #118

Am I the only one disappointed by this new wave of AI hype? Seriously, autogenerated avatars? When are our best minds going to work towards actually improving the lives of people? Not monkey JPEG scams, not chat bot bureaucracies, not self-driving cars that fail in bad weather and kill you, but something that actually alleviates humanity's biggest problems. Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, afforda…

thank you for saying what I have felt for the last 20yrs in tech. I will humbly add going to Mars to the list of wasted resources. It’s already gone beyond the funny meme phase.

Re: Bunny AI

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Post by zzzeek »

happytiger wrote: post #115
dweekly wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was impressed with FoldiMate's approach here and really liked the CEO, Gal, but unfortunately the founder foundered and FoldiMate folded, mate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoldiMate

Yes, but I want an AI that tells me what kind of laundry folding machine to build, or better yet designs it for me. That's where we're going.

that's what I'm talking about. I think AI would approach "laundry folding" in ways we never thought of, using simpler machinery than would have been expected in novel ways. this is pretty specific to something very geometric / topological like folding things.

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

_xnmw wrote: post #118

Am I the only one disappointed by this new wave of AI hype? Seriously, autogenerated avatars? When are our best minds going to work towards actually improving the lives of people? Not monkey JPEG scams, not chat bot bureaucracies, not self-driving cars that fail in bad weather and kill you, but something that actually alleviates humanity's biggest problems. Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, afforda…

>Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, affordable housing crises in the West, content moderation, the loneliness epidemic

I think if an capable AI in the future is given the opportunity to fix this with zero restrictions, Then most likely it is going to uproot entire system of governance along with several ultra-rich and powerful people.

Hence they'll try to never let it happen.

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

meling wrote: post #117
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a robotics engineer I don’t think it’s true that “if it were a robotics problem it would be solved.” Robotics for non industrial uses are basically in their infancy. Also I am of the opinion that the best way to make a meal is a purpose built series of small machines to perform different tasks. So you have an onion preparation machine which peels and cores the onions and maybe also performs onion-specific slicing.…

Interesting . I agree that arms and hands are probably not necessary and that custom tools are better suited. One think that came to mind when you mentioned many chambers and cooking systems; these must be easy to clean to avoid food waste getting stuck.

Oh absolutely. My view is that integrated automatic cleaning must be part of the system design. Such a system would be a huge pain if it was not self cleaning.

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

amelius wrote: post #121
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a robotics engineer I don’t think it’s true that “if it were a robotics problem it would be solved.” Robotics for non industrial uses are basically in their infancy. Also I am of the opinion that the best way to make a meal is a purpose built series of small machines to perform different tasks. So you have an onion preparation machine which peels and cores the onions and maybe also performs onion-specific slicing.…

> Also I am of the opinion that the best way to make a meal is a purpose built series of small machines to perform different tasks. But these machines take a lot of space and require cleaning. Much better to have a robot with two hands that can perform more generalized tasks.

They can stack vertically such that they take up less space than a commercial kitchen, which cannot stack vertically (at least not on the scale of multiple separate operations in one vertical meter) and requires space for humans to move around. An onion prepping machine might be 30cm x 30cm x 100cm. You could fit 11 mechanisms of that size in one cubic meter.

My view on cleaning is that the systems must be automatically self cleaning. Otherwise yes cleaning would be a pain.

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Post by sneak »

EMIRELADERO wrote: post #87
sneak wrote: post #39

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The software is proprietary and is governed by the license. It's not the hardware.

Can't wait for a court to toss that particular one out. "Consumers who purchase a product containing a copy of embedded software have the inherent legal right to use that copy of the software" (Chamberlain v. Skylink)

The drivers are not embedded in the hardware. They are gigabytes of additional downloads.

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Post by wwilim »

_xnmw wrote: post #118

Am I the only one disappointed by this new wave of AI hype? Seriously, autogenerated avatars? When are our best minds going to work towards actually improving the lives of people? Not monkey JPEG scams, not chat bot bureaucracies, not self-driving cars that fail in bad weather and kill you, but something that actually alleviates humanity's biggest problems. Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, afforda…

Don't you think working to solve homelessness has a slightly threshold of entry than 128x128 image generation?

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Post by LBJsPNS »

corobo wrote: post #141
zppln wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be happy just to have the moving of wet clothes from the washing machine into the tumbler automated. But not even this science can provide. :(

I've had a combo washer dryer ever since moving out of my parents place lol You gotta also buy the things science provides!

I prefer the Unix approach - single function appliances that do a single job well.

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Post by antifa »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #132
_xnmw wrote: post #118

Am I the only one disappointed by this new wave of AI hype? Seriously, autogenerated avatars? When are our best minds going to work towards actually improving the lives of people? Not monkey JPEG scams, not chat bot bureaucracies, not self-driving cars that fail in bad weather and kill you, but something that actually alleviates humanity's biggest problems. Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, afforda…

Why not think of it this way: these tools free up our time and make it possible to spend the rest of it on more substantial pursuits. I volunteer at an animal shelter. If AI tools can free up 10 hours/week from my schedule, that’s 10 extra hours I can potentially volunteer

But that's not what's going to happen. 99% of the time that 10/hours a week is going to be liquidated in the form of 25% less high-paying jobs.
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