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meatlamma t1_ja41ack wrote

Like many said before: Language is the low hanging fruit for AI. Language encodes information, highly structural and logical, and most importantly of all, we have petabytes of readily available training data. NLP really is the "hello world" app for AI.

Now try this: open an electrical j-box, and swap out the light switch for a dimmer. Now imagine a robot trying to do that, moving all the actuators with mm precision, haptic sensing, 3D visual processing, all to find the right wires in the spaghetti mess of a typical j-box, to strip and bend the wires, handling small screws, now folding it all back neatly in the box while it all trying to spring back at you. That problem, that most humans can handle with no problem, is not even close to be anywhere solvable by AI. Now imagine snaking a wire for a new outlet, or sweating some old copper pipe, yeah forget about it. We are at least 30 years (very optimistically) away from an android going into your house and doing __any__ work that a handyman can do.

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sashavie t1_ja4u6cr wrote

I'd say most humans wouldn't be able to handle the mess of wires of a typical j-box haha let alone AI

It takes an *experienced* handy or electrician to open up a spaghetti of wires, identify all the mickey mouse jobs done by previous homeowners (or incompetent handys, or generations of patching around various workarounds), and then solve it haha

Everything is "easy" to fix when it's new construction or near-new

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sgt_brutal t1_ja65r1i wrote

Unsupervised learning has led to the discovery of novel algorithms and architectures that can outperform human-designed systems. The potential for future breakthroughs, like the invention of a completely new substrate or material base for robots (think about slime and nano robots for start), should not be underestimated.

Things will speed up dramatically when AI takes over the task of invention. Even LLMs based on the GPT architecture has the potential to be optimized to become capable co-inventors. In just five years, we could be using trutos to sorder brightors!

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