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Optimus ins’t gonna be a master welder, electrician, HVAC technician, general contractor anytime soon.
by nodesocket 1mo ago
Optimus ins’t gonna be a master welder, electrician, HVAC technician, general contractor anytime soon.
- bdamm 1mo agoDebatable. Optimus will be programmed by watching thousands of YouTube videos and by indexing the entire NEC. It is entirely possible that a single Optimus can be a master welder, electrician, and HVAC technician. What Optimus can't do is take responsibility for the completion of the work as being done to code. Nor is it clear how much Optimus will cost to buy or operate. Underestimating humanoid capabilities is a mistake; the real challenge will be the economics and the flow of responsibility. But imagine a future where every structure built has a pov video documenting its construction. I don't like the implication for the trades any more than I like the implication of Claude for putting me out of work either.
- dmitriy_ko 1mo agoLatest LLMs that have good visual understanding (Gemini and GPT) are able to tell if construction work is up to code. You can give it a picture of electrical wiring, plumbing, framing and it will tell you if it's up to code with very good accuracy.
- imtringued 1mo agoOk, but if you think that's true, then it would be a huge mistake to put Optimus on two legs instead of a boom lift.