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We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

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Re: We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably not. Who cares at this point? No one is stopping ML sets from being primarily pirated. The current power is effectively dismantling copyright for AI related work.

> The current power is effectively dismantling copyright for AI related work. Out of the loop apparently, could you elaborate? By "the current power" I take you mean the current US administration?

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Re: We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

#52
I just wrote a reply to a comment talking about the AI tells this writing has, but it got flagged so my comment disappeared when I hit post. I'll rephrase out of spite:

My first thought upon reading this was that an LLM had been instructed to add a pithy meme joke to each paragraph. They don't make sense in context, and while some terminally online people do speak in memes, those people aren't quoting doge in 2025.

There's also a sense of incoherence in the whole piece. For instance, this section:

"- after: 22 million videos + 1 million images (now we're talking)

they basically hoovered up everything: something-something v2, kinetics, howto100m, and a billion youtube videos"

Was it a billion vids or 22m? It turns out the latter sentence is just rephrasing the list of sources in a cool casual way, and the last one is called YT-Temporal-1B. That's a billion frames of video, not a billion videos.

Re: We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

#53
post #38

Someone watched 'Devs' ? if you havent - highly recommended.

Do you have a link or a less generic search term?

It’s a TV show made by Adam Garland https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/ It’s pretty good sci fi IMHO

Re: We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

#54

This is interesting for generalized problems ( "make me a sandwich" ) but not useful for most real world functions ( "perform x within y space at z cost/speed" ). I think the number of people on the humanoid bandwagon trying to implement generalized applications is staggering right now. The physics tells you they will never be as fast as purpose-built devices, nor as small, nor as cheap. That's not to say there's zer…

analogy: a CPU is more expensive, more complicated, more energy demanding than custom made circuitry, in most cases.

Re: We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

#56
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably not. Who cares at this point? No one is stopping ML sets from being primarily pirated. The current power is effectively dismantling copyright for AI related work.

> Who cares at this point Anyone who has a shred of integrity. I'm not a fan of overreaching copyright laws, but they've been strictly enforced for years now. Decades, even. They've ruined many lives, like how they killed Aaron Swartz. But now, suddenly, violating copyright is totally okay and carries no consequences whatsoever because the billionaires decided that's how they can get richer now? If you want to even t…

Aaron Swartz died of suicide, not copyright.

His death was a tragedy but it wasn't done to him.

Re: We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

#57
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably not. Who cares at this point? No one is stopping ML sets from being primarily pirated. The current power is effectively dismantling copyright for AI related work.

> Who cares at this point Anyone who has a shred of integrity. I'm not a fan of overreaching copyright laws, but they've been strictly enforced for years now. Decades, even. They've ruined many lives, like how they killed Aaron Swartz. But now, suddenly, violating copyright is totally okay and carries no consequences whatsoever because the billionaires decided that's how they can get richer now? If you want to even t…

> If you want to even try to pretend you don't live in a plutocracy and that the rule of law matters at all

Can't even pretend anymore, this season jumped the shark

Re: We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

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post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very good point! This area faces a similar misalignment of goals in that it tries to be a generic fit-all solution that is rampant with today's LLMs. We made a sandwich but it cost you 10x more than it would a human and slower might slowly become faster and more efficient but by the time you get really good at it, its simply not transferable unless the model is genuinely able to make the leap across into other domain…

Note that the username here is a Korean derogatory term for Chinese people.

It's an interesting comment, it has the same "compliment the OP, elaborate, raise a further question" format I've seen used by apparently LLM-generated spam accounts on HN. But, the second paragraph is so incoherently structured that I have a hard time thinking an LLM produces it.

Re: We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

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post #52

I just wrote a reply to a comment talking about the AI tells this writing has, but it got flagged so my comment disappeared when I hit post. I'll rephrase out of spite: My first thought upon reading this was that an LLM had been instructed to add a pithy meme joke to each paragraph. They don't make sense in context, and while some terminally online people do speak in memes, those people aren't quoting doge in 2025. T…

Also, the author of the blog "Ksagar Atharva" doesn't appear anywhere in the list of authors on the linked FB research paper with Yann LeCun as a co-author. Unless the blog author is using a heavily modified pseudonym.

The research is very real but the blog post appears to be very fake.

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