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>Something with more dimensionality and integration of several types of input. like using a few degrees of freedom and little strength to chop onions and some
by logicallee 10y ago
>Something with more dimensionality and integration of several types of input.
like using a few degrees of freedom and little strength to chop onions and some vegetable, crack eggs, whisking them, pour a bit of oil into a pan and lighting a stove, pour the omelette, flip it onto the plate, throw the eggshells in the trash unless it's too full (and take the trash out if it is) and wash the chopping board and pan with a sponge (adding a little dish soap) and not too much water, then rinse them thoroughly but without too much water. Which poses no challenge to most adult humans who take just a bit of time to learn (if you never learned to make an omelette and you're an average adult, by Wednesday you can make a perfect omelette every time.) Even though objectively humans have very weak hands, see things very, very slowly compared with machines, and cannot do any single mechanical action as reliably and predictably as robots.
computers might be able to find and count all the primes between one and a million before I can count the ones up to ten[1], but they can't even scrub my bathtub with a sponge given a whole afternoon to do it - not without a lot of specialized robotics anyway.
[1] https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-the-fastest-algorithm-take-to-generate-primes-up-to-a-million-and-up-to-ten-million-on-a-standard-home-computer https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-the-fastest-algorithm-ta...
- Qworg 10y agoWe make up for hand weakness with hand dexterity, slow vision processing with incredibly rich feature sets and powerful cameras, and reliable actions with previsioning and prediction on every task. The human system is pretty incredible.
- logicallee 10y agoYes, this is the kind of task computers should "compete with" - using weak and semireliable motor functions and cheap cameras (no infrared or laser vision etc) and making up for it with "smarts" - the way humans do.