Re:How Computer Vision Is Changing Manufacturing in 2023
by amluto on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:34AM
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I suspect this is related to a serious upcoming bottleneck in AI. A skilled human can do all manner of physical handyman-style tasks, and I can imagine AI tackling a lot of the cognitive parts: reading the manual, figuring out what generally needs to be done, reading industry standards, etc. But a human has also trained themselves about how a screwdriver and a saw actually behave, how to get all the pieces to stay together while doing a job, and a bunch of other physical things work, and can real the manual, etc with this context. AI doesn’t have access to the physical part, at least for the time being.
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Re:How Computer Vision Is Changing Manufacturing in 2023
by ghaff on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:41AM
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This runs right into a lot of cognitive science research and debates. Which have not really resolved a lot of things related to AI historically and have been pretty much on the sidelines as GPU-driven machine learning has done some impressive things (and a lot of parlor tricks).
One of the ideas around cognition is that a lot of what we regard as intelligence in the physical domain, including intelligence below human levels, involves creating physical models about how the world works, which AIs are literally not able to do at all. You can instruct them in various ways, e.g. Boston Dynamics, but they have no way to internalize and actually understand novel physical world situations.
Some very smart people suspect that ML is a very powerful technique but that "better ML" only gets you so far.