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Re:Something Big Is (Not) Happening by red75prime on Friday February 13, 2026 @07:20PM (#47009771)
Language allows higher-level and longer-term planning and better generalization than purely vision-action models. Waymo uses VLM in their Driver[1]. Tesla decided to add some kind of a language model to their VA stack[2]. Nvidia's Alpamayo uses VLA[3].

[1] https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/demonstrably-safe-ai-for-auto...

[2] https://x.com/aelluswamy/status/1981760576591393203

[3] https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/solutions/autonomous-vehicles/a...

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Re:Something Big Is (Not) Happening by irishcoffee on Friday February 13, 2026 @07:23PM (#47009806)
> Language allows

If a tree falls...

Waymo, X, Nvidia. You fucking nailed unbiased.

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Re:Something Big Is (Not) Happening by red75prime on Friday February 13, 2026 @07:36PM (#47009933)
[0] if you want something more academic. What's your gripe with language, anyway?

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24044

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Re:Something Big Is (Not) Happening by irishcoffee on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:10PM (#47011141)
Language is a construct.

> allow[s] higher-level and longer-term planning and better generalization than purely vision-action model

People do that part. Languages don't plan, they don't think. They don't _do_ anything at all.

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Re:Something Big Is (Not) Happening by red75prime on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:38AM (#47013118)
Sure. Language just seems to structure a general learning system in a way that allows it to do all those things.
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Re:Something Big Is (Not) Happening by irishcoffee on Sunday February 15, 2026 @07:31PM (#47029373)
> Sure. Language just seems to structure a general learning system in a way that allows it to do all those things.

That's like saying python structures a general system.

Python does nothing at all. People use python to create constructs. We've covered this. :)

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Re:Something Big Is (Not) Happening by red75prime on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:29AM (#47031995)
Python is not a natural language. A natural language communicates things that are not here and now (essentially everything that occurs naturally). Moreover, language can convey abstractions that exist because of language itself.
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