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What's interesting to me along these lines is I assume most of the companies funding the research are targeting the "creative" media in terms of image generatio
by pixelesque 1y ago
What's interesting to me along these lines is I assume most of the companies funding the research are targeting the "creative" media in terms of image generation, music generation, avatars, speach, etc.
I can understand it's very interesting from a researcher's point-of-view (I'm a software dev who's worked adjacent to some ML researchers doing pipeline stuff to integrate models into software), but at the same time: Where are the robots to do menial work like clean toilets, kitchens, homes, etc?
I assume the funding isn't there? Or maybe it's much less exciting to research diffusion networks for image generation that working out algorithms for the best way to clean toilets :)
- dingnuts 1y agorobotics is difficult and since transformers are just next word predictors they can't actually help us design those robots :) also the billionaires have help so they don't give a shit if the menial stuff is automated or not. throw in a little misogyny by and large too; I saw a LinkedIn Lunatic in the wild (some C-level) saying laundry is already automated because laundry machines exist fucking.. tell me you don't ever do the laundry without telling me. That guy's poor wife.
- einarfd 1y agoThere are companies out there working on those problems as well. How the funding climate for them are. I don't know. But the market for smart robots, should be gigantic. So there must be some. Keep in mind that what is easy, and hard for a human, which is the result of billions of years of evolution. Isn't necessary the same things that are hard or easy for our technologies.
- cherry_tree 1y agoThere was a recent talk about using vision language models to train robots to do household tasks: https://youtu.be/a8-QsBHoH94 https://youtu.be/a8-QsBHoH94 I wonder how advanced world models like genie 3 would change the approach if it all.
- lentil_soup 1y agoOr replacing CEOs, investors, bankers? I would have thought those would be easier to replace than creating robots to clean or replacing artists, or even developers. Maybe I am wrong?
- SirHumphrey 1y agoAll these jobs are more who you know not what you know. The social network of these people is often an integral part of the work, so they are in a sense much safer than programmers, accountants and artists.