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>Robotics? lights-out operations in automated factories are already a thing, so I don't know if they're the "next thing". Eh, I do think this is kind of undere
by pixl97 7mo ago
>Robotics? lights-out operations in automated factories are already a thing, so I don't know if they're the "next thing".
Eh, I do think this is kind of underestimating the changes in robotics that are occurring. LLMs incorporated with other ML kernels extend the capabilities a long way. That and the amount of computing power now usable to train robotics is far far larger.
- SideburnsOfDoom 7mo agoAre large Language Models of use to move robot limbs around?
- pixl97 7mo agoI mean yes, just tell a robot to go pick up a green apple that has an integrated LLM and it can setup a course of actions to the other things like movement models to accomplish that task.
- SideburnsOfDoom 7mo agoIt doesn't seem to me that voice control of ad-hoc tasks would be such a big area of automated manufacturing, but ok.
- pixl97 7mo agoVoice control is one thing, generalized vision is another, actual development of the automated manufacturing systems is another.
- SideburnsOfDoom 7mo agoI take your word that there is progress in this area, but it doesn't change my view that the Solar+battery+EV stack really is the biggest technology transformation of our times.
- jimbokun 7mo agoELI5: how do LLMs facilitate better robotics? I don't see the immediate application of language generation to navigating and manipulation in the physical world.