Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing
  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
    41·
    6 hours ago

    That’s not athleticism, that’s a different sport. I can beat marathon runners too when I use a bicycle.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    29·
    6 hours ago

    Okay great, but steam engines from the mid 19th century could probably outrun humans too.

  • worhui@lemmy.worldEnglish
    108·
    6 hours ago

    Pretty impressive. The ability to operate 13 miles continuously makes un-teatherd humanoid robots viable for a lot of tasks. Once the AI is developed they could deliver mail or stock items in a department store.

    It’ll be interesting to see how long it will be from this race before we see bi-pedal robots completing a full marathon.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgEnglish
      14·
      5 hours ago

      Once the AI is developed they could deliver mail or stock items in a department store.

      That’s never going to happen the way you imagine. AI can’t make decisions it wasn’t trained for, and delivering mail in the real world isn’t as simple as you think.
      Unless you forced everyone to install standardized mailboxes and accepted that important mail won’t be delivered to people if their mailbox looks different, got damaged, or is covered in snow.

      But assuming it did work, who would profit from AI mail robots?
      The people would get worse service, without a human connection anymore.
      The postal workers would all be fired.
      And as soon as the entire system relies on AI robots, the company leasing them out to the government would increase prices to at least what it cost before, since they’ve established a monopoly impossible to enter for any competition.

      • the_wonderfool@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        AI (or what we call AI currently) is definitely capable of making decision it wasn’t trained for, it’s the whole reason why LLM are so effective, they learned enough patterns about how humans think and react, that they can apply it to other situations.

        Now, if you talk about RELIABLY making decisions then I definitely agree with you. They can’t even be reliable with stuff they extensively saw in training, when you get out of the “confort zone” the odds of it taking the correct decision drops fast.

        But with AI companies trying to get as much data as they can from their workers and from common people, and with the scary new trend of smart glasses (even though I’m a fan of augmented reality as a concept) we will see how things evolve…

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        4 hours ago

        In a capitalist market economy with a small public sector, that’s definitely the expected outcome. In fact it would be worse than you describe. It’ll produce big problems with the ability of the economy to consume its production since people rely on wages to buy that production. Wages that woild go away due to automation.

        In a mixed economy with a very large public sector, public co-ownership of large private firms, and 10% of the population (and growing) being members of the party that controls it all, the outcome may be different.