Robotics. It will be a pivot to robotics.
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anakin78z@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“market reaction suggests that more capital isn’t going to be a viable substitute for a business model anymore.”
Time to find the next vague thing that investors can pour trillions into without really knowing what it is or does.
purrtastic@lemmy.nz 6 days ago
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Which will create a labor boom, to operate the robots, a la Tesla
jj4211@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Challenge there being that seems to have proven elusive. It’s not too surprising, but trying to use machine learning for robotics is actually really hard.
Driving is much easier, training data with video, audio, and other sensor input complete with how the human manipulated steering and two pedals.
But direct human interaction with the environment is both much more complicated than three controls and is not instrumented. They are trying to build training data from remote operators, but it turns out we aren’t very good at controlling these things remotely anywhere close to acting directly. We are terrible teachers and there’s a fraction of the actionable data that other more successful models had to work with.
If an AI sees a video of someone doing someone, it can make a similar video, but can’t model how that might map to what it would see as unrelated motor and hydraulic operation.
purrtastic@lemmy.nz 6 days ago
Indeed. It will be a shitshow with all sorts of attempts to juice the share price via obfuscation of the actual abilities, like musk has been doing already. It won’t have many tangible outputs, but they’re desperate for the next big growth idea, so here we are.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Don’t forget, though, it does that one thing for that one reason I forgot already as I typed it… But its still good, clearly!
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
It’ll be quantum computing. Since the last hype around it, a lot of progress has been made to the point that quantum computers are actually becoming useful, since error correction is now mostly resolved.
Grolly@feddit.dk 6 days ago
I would be surprised. Quantum computers haven’t even been proven to be theoretically useful.
slowcakes@programming.dev 5 days ago
The amount of cooling they need for a simple quantum CPU with 104 qubits. Can you even do anything with it that is useful, you can’t even brake encryption because you don’t have enough processing power.
The science is advancing, but then as always is the question of, how you scale it to be economical viable, which is a hard problem by it self to solve.
Don’t think the market is interested in tech that they can’t hype, or have a natural hype cycle.