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We ended up here because we have a propensity to share our creative outputs, and keep our laundry habits to ourselves. If we instead went around bragging about
by __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
We ended up here because we have a propensity to share our creative outputs, and keep our laundry habits to ourselves. If we instead went around bragging about how efficiently we can fold a shirt, complete with mocap datasets of how it's done, we'd have gotten the other kind of AI first.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y ago> We ended up here because we have a propensity to share our creative outputs, and keep our laundry habits to ourselves Somehow I doubt that the reason gen AI is way ahead of laundry-folding robots is because it's some kind of big secret about how to fold a shirt, or there aren't enough examples of shirt folding. Manipulating a physical object like a shirt (especially a shirt or other piece of cloth, as opposed to a rigid object) is orders of magnitude more complex that completing a text string.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoIf you wanted finger-positioning data for how millions of different people fold thousands of different shirts, where would you go looking for that dataset? My point is just that the availability of training data is vastly different between these cases. If we want better AI we're probably going to have to generate some huge curated datasets for mundane things that we've never considered worth capturing before. It's an unfortunate quirk of what we decide to share with each other that has positioned AI to do art and not laundry.