Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti
by noduerme on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:51PM
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Or a generalized model to develop them in a virtual sandbox before deploying them physically, which I think is more likely.
Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti
by don_esteban on Friday September 05, 2025 @10:03AM
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I think the bottleneck for this is still the cost of the physical hw of the robot, and its maintenance.
You need a fairly robust one that needs little maintenance, with a multitude of good sensors and precise actuators to be even remotely useful for sufficiently wide range of tasks (so that you have economy of scales). None of that comes cheap.
There are endless corners of the physical world right now where it's not worth automating a task if you need to assign an engineer and develop a software competency as a manufacturing or retail company, but would absolutely be worth it if you had a generalizable model that you could point-and-shoot at them.