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the PC metaphor is cute but it leaves out a few things imo. programming a robot to e.g. move things around in your workshop is intrinsically harder than eg. pro
by notbetter 8y ago
the PC metaphor is cute but it leaves out a few things imo. programming a robot to e.g. move things around in your workshop is intrinsically harder than eg. programming a home computer to do your taxes (for the robot you need computer vision, sensor fusion, motion planning etc). it will take the equivalent of BASIC before widespread use is feasible (= something that automates away the low level sensor-motor complexity). so is that coming soon?
- melling 8y ago"that moment when computers stopped being massive machines that only a handful of corporations could operate to something everybody found a use for—small businesses first, homes some time later"
- notbetter 8y agoyeah, I just read the article. true, for small-medium businesses it's more feasible. probably also an important point that machine learning can address some of the basic complexity