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We're a long, long way from having a reliable, inexpensive robot that can snake out a plugged toilet.
by nradov 1y ago
We're a long, long way from having a reliable, inexpensive robot that can snake out a plugged toilet.
- ben_w 1y ago1) From what I've heard*, IQ 85 is about the lowest you can be and still function as a plumber. My statement stands about everyone less clever than the worst — not average, worst — plumber. 2) for all values of X in the last two years, every time someone suggests "robots/AI are nowhere near doing X", if X is coherent**, either an AI can already do X, or at most ends up doing it within six months. So, anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJIuns9nRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJIuns9nRk * Which is really vague due to (1) how mediocre IQ tests are in practice and (2) the internet being full of oft-repeated nonsense since day zero ** The two things people end up correctly saying AI can't do, are (1) "solve the halting problem", and (2) reinvent literally everything starting from first principles.