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I think it's in Heinlein's The Door Into Summer where the protagonist is a robotics expert. One part of the story that always bugged me was when the protagonist
by gcanyon 3y ago
I think it's in Heinlein's The Door Into Summer where the protagonist is a robotics expert. One part of the story that always bugged me was when the protagonist describes training household robots by showing them what to do. The line is something like, "Let it watch you wash the dishes once and you never have to wash the dishes again."
Teenage me read that years ago and scoffed, thinking "that's now how programming code works, like, at all." Now with this robot and the new Rabbit device from CES, it seems that Heinlein was exactly right.
- yardie 3y agoIndustrial robots have a training mode where the motors and clutches are disengaged so the operator can position this multi-ton robot through the movements it wants it to make. I thought that was really cool to watch them being programmed through physical input.
- Mutttttioi 3y agoThats why i think that AI/LLMs etc. are a gamechanger: Not because they can generate text (which is impressive by itself) but because they are very very good in translating human wishes into computer interfaces. Hi robot, here is my kitchen. Here are dishes etc.
- qgin 3y agoIt's a strange thing to see ML now making computers work how non-programmers think they've always worked.