Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
by WhompingWindows on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:13PM
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Computation existed for more than 40 years before apps started making a ton of money on it. If BD develops robotic platform-"workers" that can be trained in 5 seconds to do any manual labor, that's the new "app" that one would be making money off of in the future.
Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
by tibiahurried on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:42PM
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> Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has.
This thinking will never take humans on Mars! Someone must work on hard, expensive problems.
Human race does won't move forward with a chat but with the hard work of scientist, engineers etc ...
Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
by jskajakzkjx on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:37PM
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A lot of the hard work of scientists and engineers is enabled by chats, though.
Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
by jessaustin on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:59PM
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"On the joyous and satisfying occasion of this, our first successful journey to Mars, we think back not only on all those who died along the way, but also on the Slack clone that allowed us avert disaster on this mission..."
Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
by teknopaul on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:16PM
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I do wonder why we want humans on Mars. Given the huge amount of fossil fuels that must be burned on this planet to get us there.
We may find Mars is dry and arid when we get there, and so is Earth.
Robots are very hard, and Boston Dynamics has been around for almost 40 years and still isn't anywhere close to making a lot of money.
Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has.
Fwiw I interviewed with BD a few years ago, and am focusing on robotics, so I'd like the opposite to be true