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the future can be wonderful if we make it so

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in an automated economy, the special purpose machines get built by increasingly general purpose machines. at the base level you have general purpose robots which make factories if that happens, let's hope it's good for all and not some crazy scenario - marshallbrain.com/manna1
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@shariq25 Jan 2024
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the form factor which makes sense for a general purpose robot probably differs based on the environment in which it operates. different indoors, in the wilderness, ocean, air, and floating in space. they might also be different depending on the scale they operate at
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Nicer video of Alfie cleaning an office.. next up, we’re working with Buck Lewis ( issuu.com/risd/docs/risdxyz_… ) to redesign Alfie to be more ✨🫧⚡️
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Probably the most level headed view on where general purpose robotics AI is at today, recommend reading if you’re into that :) Not sure about the long horizons point, but otherwise all very sensible
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@nishanthkumar2325 Nov 2023
There was a lot of good and interesting debate on "is scaling all we need to solve robotics?" at #CoRL23. I spent some time writing up a blog post about all the points I heard on both sides: nishanthjkumar.com/Will-Scal…
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Long context windows probably get solved with various tricks, like with audio/image generation, or somehow operating in latent space
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We decided to rent a warehouse and set up a lost PLA investment casting line ourselves lol — this is the first test part. Surface quality should dramatically improve in the next few weeks with tweaks to the process
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@shariq4 Sep 2023
Would be cool if someone tried making turnkey lost PLA casting with chemical surface finishing a thing.. 3D print part with PolyCast PVA/support, chemical surface finish in a chamber, dip in slurry, dry slurry, burn off PLA in furnace, pour in metal in next furnace, break off clay, post machine in CNC In theory allows cheap low unit volume metal parts, with casting alloys / nice crystallinity / low porosity, and more complex geometries
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Would be cool if someone tried making turnkey lost PLA casting with chemical surface finishing a thing.. 3D print part with PolyCast PVA/support, chemical surface finish in a chamber, dip in slurry, dry slurry, burn off PLA in furnace, pour in metal in next furnace, break off clay, post machine in CNC In theory allows cheap low unit volume metal parts, with casting alloys / nice crystallinity / low porosity, and more complex geometries
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Prosper Robotics has built a robot that can do the cleaning, the dishes and the laundry, bringing a Jetsons-style future closer than ever sifted.eu/articles/robot-but…
An OpenAI alum is building a robot butler for your home

An OpenAI alum is building a robot butler for your home

Prosper Robotics has built a robot that can do the cleaning, the dishes and the laundry, but will it be affordable?

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An early timelapse video of Alfie, the general purpose teleop robot we've been building at @prosper Here it cleans a kitchen table, wipes the surface, rinses dishes in the sink before placing them in the dishwasher, throws trash, and puts other items away.
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The general purpose robotics race probably comes down to who gets to 10k-100k robots deployed first, to get the data needed
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Coming back from a week in a poorer city in the Philippines.. the hope for millions of people at call centres and outsourcing companies is now that they aggressively lead in adoption of AI and benefit from the increased productivity, instead of waiting for eventual decline
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Generative models (text/image/video) with lots of users could one day be optimised to maximise engagement, like FB/TikTok. Scary thought: our devices are already addictive; how much worse will they get? I think it's OK if we have System 2 control over our AI's reward function
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So instead of optimising purely for short term clicks/views (System 1), there should be a way to make a System 2 choice about what to optimise for. Maybe it's how good you feel after; or how much you learned; or how little you regret it. It should be up to the user, and flexible
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Just had a @prosper robot clean up my living room while I was showering, remotely piloted... Feels like having a futuristic friend taking care of you, very comforting. We need a "prosper freeze" voice command though for coming out of the shower 😂
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:))
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Weird that we don't have public figures with high approval ratings. Many public figures don't think it's possible, so it's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. Biggest factor in eroding trust in institutions: it starts as trust in people.
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A world in which technological development is driven by more and more advanced magic shows, because that's way cooler than economics so all the talented people go into that
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The doors are alive and greet you, the way they greet someone is a sign of how polite they are
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Heck it's all alive
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