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Robotics Is Harder(whattotelltherobot.com)
1 points by stefie10 12d ago|0 comments
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I Need Space(whattotelltherobot.com)
5 points by stefie10 3mo ago|0 comments
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Why Robotics Is a Pre-Paradigm Field(whattotelltherobot.com)
5 points by stefie10 4mo ago|0 comments
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The First Hit Is Free(whattotelltherobot.com)
4 points by stefie10 4mo ago|0 comments
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I Got Sycophanted(whattotelltherobot.com)
4 points by stefie10 5mo ago|0 comments
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Elephants Still Don't Play Chess(whattotelltherobot.com)
2 points by stefie10 5mo ago|1 comments
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How to Build Safe AI (Without Making the AI Safe)(whattotelltherobot.com)
3 points by stefie10 5mo ago|1 comments
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Where the Curves Cross(whattotelltherobot.com)
3 points by stefie10 5mo ago|0 comments
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The Deer Island Marvel: Wastewater treatment and engineering excellence(whattotelltherobot.com)
2 points by stefie10 10mo ago|1 comments
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by stefie10 10mo ago
Deer Island processes an average of 360 million gallons of wastewater daily for the greater Boston area Walking through the primary treatment tanks, secondary clarifiers, and the impressive egg-shaped digesters, you’re confronted with the
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The Grounded Turing Test(whattotelltherobot.com)
6 points by stefie10 1y ago|1 comments
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by stefie10 1y ago
There is a facet of intelligence that is missing from ChatGPT: embodiment. Crows, elephants, and chimpanzees have behaviors associated with this facet of intelligence, without having spoken natural language at all. From a capabilities persp
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Elephants Don't Write Sonnets(whattotelltherobot.com)
4 points by stefie10 1y ago|1 comments
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by stefie10 1y ago
What does it really mean for a machine to be intelligent? Despite the incredible linguistic fluency of LLMs, something profound is still missing.
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Robot Learns to Write and Draw(wired.com)
1 points by stefie10 7y ago|0 comments
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by stefie10 8y ago
Yes, but that is why it costs so much to deploy industrial robots. There are many applications where it is technically possible to automate today, but not economical, due to the cost of setting up the robot, due to it needing ample space a
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by stefie10 8y ago
We are faster than a CUDA graphics card. You get a win from designing custom hardware specifically for this task so that you don't have to load stuff on and off the GPU. The fastest previous approach takes seconds; ours takes millis
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Autonomous Driving with the Raspberry Pi(kickstarter.com)
2 points by stefie10 8y ago|0 comments
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Scanning the Internet for Robots(technologyreview.com)
30 points by stefie10 8y ago|1 comments
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by stefie10 9y ago
I think that's definitely true, in terms of net jobs. (But probably not always true.) However it will lead to disruption - the old jobs won't be the same as the new jobs. This disruption is potentially harmful to the people do
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by stefie10 9y ago
I agree, but technical advancements can also lead to a transfer of wealth from worker to capital owner. For example, there are roughly two million long-haul truck drivers in the US today. When we have self-driving trucks, they will lose th
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by stefie10 9y ago
I agree with that so much that I spend all my time working on robots. I am not saying we should stop automating. More the latter, that we should work toward applying the technology in a sustainable way. The advances in labor protections
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by stefie10 9y ago
We cannot do this today, but this capability, of using language, is one we are actively working towards. Eventually, you can imagine an AI that can engage in a dialog like this one, in words. For example, see the DARPA Explainable AI prog
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by stefie10 9y ago
I was thinking more like the Renaissance fair today. You'd visit the fair that recreates a hack-a-thon in the late 90s. At the fair, you'd see the old programmer at his terminal, coding in Perl in an emacs window... instead of
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by stefie10 9y ago
I started working in robotics because I wanted to empower people and make the world a better place. But what I have started to appreciate is that increasing automation is by default a transfer of wealth from labor to capital owners. The t
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by stefie10 9y ago
Why would you unlearn though? Eventually the AI will do all of the above as well. Maybe eventually programming will be like blacksmithing or weaving is today...
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by stefie10 9y ago
Someone wise once told me, even after we have strong AI and don't need to program, he will still program, because the process of programming leads to understanding, and he will still want to understand things. The AI might be able to
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by stefie10 9y ago
Yes but you can sue the company that owns the machine learning algorithm, probably for much more money than you can sue an individual. You can even imagine class action law suites and the like. (I am one of the researchers mentioned in the
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by stefie10 9y ago
Weapons of Math Destruction is also a good resource on this topic, about how bias is already being encoded in "black box" algorithms that has real effects on things like the availability of credit.
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Welcoming Our New Robotic Overlords(newyorker.com)
78 points by stefie10 9y ago|48 comments

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