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IMHO the race to build humanoid robots is dumb and useless.
Robots must be ugly, clanky, non-humanoid looking, but strong, and dedicated to single task not trying to copycat people.
Robots must do only the heavy work that people cannot do or is dangerous for them (into the fucking mines! )
All this bullshit with robots competing into sports is idiotic.
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Big missing part of the AI stack, and there's a demographics nudge over labor. China competing in AI means a lot of cultural and financial subsidy for them too. Japan was at the fore-front for decades given their electronics industry and labor issues, China doesn't have the labor issues yet but is otherwise working to domesticate the full stack at all costs.
Elon years ago now painted the picture of the potential size of the market so there's a lot of copy-cats in the US chasing that mind-share, plus now the compete with China t all costs effect.
we are much closer to humanoid robots everywhere than I previously was imagining
I'd like to think so, the hardware challenges seem largely solved other than scale. Seems more that LLM based AI doesn't translate to utility though. "World models" are the dragon nvidia/google/tesla etc are chasing. Those are relatively infantile but I also wouldn't be surprised if they hit an inflection point sooner than people think.
I found this presentation to be quite good at explaining the difference. Yann Lecunn is "the" world models guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Xj8k5WQX4
Jensen has discussed world models in interviews as well.
As always, Fireship has a must-watch on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB5LGrHISqY
You know, for the last year or so, i've been seeing more and more humanoid robot videos. Usually, they are just funny: robot runs into wall and explodes, robot smashes laundry and explodes, robot trips and explodes, etc -- almost always videos from some exposition in China. And I gotta say, seeing all these videos only makes me think woah, like how many people are building these things? If the people building humanoid robots have already failed this many times, we are much closer to humanoid robots everywhere than I previously was imagining. And also: how come i never see any videos of robots in the US or EU exploding (other than drones in Ukraine and Russia)?