Sounds like NVIDIA doesn't know what the hell the future is going to look like but hopes it's something to do with robotics, and is taking some the boatloads of

Sounds like NVIDIA doesn't know what the hell the future is going to look like but hopes it's something to do with robotics, and is taking some the boatloads of money from the past few years to build out product lines for every conceivable robotics need. Good for them I guess. The article references a "ChatGPT moment" for physical robotics, but honestly I think the Chat GPT moment has kind of come and gone, and the world still runs largely as it ever did. Probably not the best analogy, unless they're just talking about buckets of VC money flowing into the space to fund lots of bad ideas, which would be good for NVIDIA financially. As an admitted non-expert in this field, I guess the one thing that really annoys me about articles like this is the lack of a concrete vision. It's like Boston Dynamics and their dancing robots, which while impressive, haven't really amounted to much outside of the lab. The last thing I remember reading was a military prototype to carry stuff for infantry that ended up being turned down because it was too loud. The article even confirms this general perspective, ending with "As of right now, we don’t have very effective tools for verifying the safety and reliability properties of machine learning systems, especially in robotics. This is a major open scientific question in the field,” said Rosen." So whatever robot you're developing is incredibly complex, to be trusted with heavy machinery or around consumers directly, while being neither verifiably safe nor reliable. Sorry, but almost everything in this article sounds like a projection of AI-hype onto physical robotics, with all the veracity of "this is good for Bitcoin". Sounds like NVIDIA is doing right by its shareholders though.