Comment on At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science

• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Lmao, if you think that piece of garbage can do anything useful in a real environment you are lost. They might get there eventually, but not for a while longer.

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  • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What’s the basis of this statement?

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=S67z2aekBrI I’m not seeing many experts who don’t think this is around the corner and you can really see why in this video where he does the work himself.

    I don’t see any reason to think this is more than ten years out?

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Its about generalization. A robot like this only works in a very controlled environment. Any unforeseen variable will completely stop it in its tracks. To be able to do a trade job it would need to be much more flexible. Good luck building a single machine that can work outdoors, in rain, in mud, in a sewer, in a narrow cable or pipe shaft, buy material, analyze problems, drive to its work site, verify results, deal with customers, etc. One hunan can do all those things and much cheaper and more reliably than any robot or swarm of robots ever could. The real world is messy and complex, not a show room prepped to only include problems the machine can solve.

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      • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes, it’s hard, but we are pouring billions of dollars into this, and have the necessary frameworks. None of that factors in the exponential rate of progress and the vast amount of additional funding going to this project now. It will be difficult, but a chore robot is still on the horizon and once it’s done and working in homes, the next step will happen too.

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