• Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    You have no sense of wonder or imagination, do you? We have been making robots for decades, and this is the first time we have ever made humanoid ones which is able to outperform actual humans in this way. At last year’s robot games, the highest one was able to jump was under a meter, and now they can beat the human world record of 2.45 meters.

    That’s absolutely phenomenal engineering, and it’s completely reductive to equate it to completely different technologies that exist to solve completely different problems. It’s phenomenal in the same way that it was phenomenal when we created the first chess bot that a human was unable to defeat.

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      44 minutes ago

      You have no concern for the future of humanity, do you?

      Maybe there are better things to waste resources on than pointless clunker that nobody wants or needs.

      Even if computerized chess were some kind of major achievement (it’s not), it wasn’t the massive waste of energy, resources, and hype that this nonsense is.