Meanwhile in robotics everyone is glad that computers are getting faster. There are a lot of things that used to be impossible to do inside a 1000 Hz control l

Meanwhile in robotics everyone is glad that computers are getting faster. There are a lot of things that used to be impossible to do inside a 1000 Hz control loop. >What do we do with the problems that are too hard to solve with the limited compute that we have? Lie down for 80 years and wait for compute to catch up? Or solve a smaller problem using specialized tricks that don't require a $10B super computer to build? Solving a smaller problem using specialized tricks has gone nowhere in robotics. Almost all the advancements in robotics control happened in the last ten years as a result of computers getting faster. We are very close to the cusp of non linear MPC becoming a solved problem for up to 64 degrees of freedom and a horizon of 20 time steps at 1000Hz, but we aren't there yet. It would definitely be possible with an ASIC built for MPC. >The bitter lesson is nothing of the sort, there is plenty of space for thinking hard, and there always will be. The bitter lesson doesn't say that human ingenuity is worthless. It guides it in a useful direction. A lot of human ingenuity was put into compute scaling solutions for transformers.