• lledrtx@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “AI” researcher here. The only reason there are models that can “write” and “create art” is because that data is available for training. Basically people put massive amounts of digital text and images on the Internet and the companies scraped all of it to train the models. If there were big enough datasets for ship building, that would happen too…

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      4 months ago

      Besides, what the guy is yapping about it is 80% a robotics problem not an AI problem. It’s apples and oranges.

      He’s essentially saying why can Will Smith finally eat pasta normally while we still don’t have the robotic workforce from the 2001 Will Smith movie “I, Robot”.

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        4 months ago

        He’s a programmer, why doesn’t he stop working on aligning buttons on web applications and work on shipbuilding robots!?!?

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      4 months ago

      Not really. You would still need to, you know, build drones or automated factories to actually perform the salvaging. But the point is that nobody DID, because capitalism values profit over human life. Nobody who “matters” is interested in solving that problem.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        4 months ago

        Actually that’s not true at all, there’s lots of interest in robotics (check out Boston Dynamic) but it’s a really really hard problem. The main issue is developing a controlling intelligence sophisticated enough to be able to use the robot to do a diverse range of tasks. The actual physical mechanical building of the robot isn’t that hard.

        Of course the way you get that controlling intelligence is AI. So he is complaining about people developing a solution to the problem he’s demanding that they solve. He’s not happy because they’re not magically skipping steps.

        This idiot wants fully sapient robots without developing AI in the first place, not sure how on earth he expects that to happen.

        • ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works
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          I think you’re underestimating the mechanical and chemistry problems that still need to be solved before autonomous robots that can perform a task like ship salvage effectively. There’s a very good reason that basically all industrial robots spend their lives plugged into a wall socket.