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Most of the self-proclaimed 'emperors' have no clothes

The actual emperors? They are dressed (or, at least, in the fabric section of the hobby store and have a sewing machine at home)

>why did they try so hard to hype it in anthropomorphic terms?

Marketing, pure and simple

People relate better to something that sounds humanesque (even though it is not) vs calling it what it is (in this case, a massively-backed (ie LLM-based) Markov Chain generator)

>How close are we to where a robot could get into a car from 2010 and drive me around?

A long way away

And here is why - driverless cars are a thing ... essentially making the car the "robot"

General-purpose robots are an amusing scifi trope, but have no practical benefit in reality

Purpose-built robots (even ones that can flex within that prupose to different applications) make far more sense (and have already been around for decades)

Genetically engineered, properly “educated”, politically controlled, and brain washed humans would be far more useful than electromechanical robots we can build any time soon. This too is a common scifi trope.

And it’s true. Industries have shown time and again that they’d rather send the work to paupers’ hands in countries without rather than automate to metals hands within.

>And it’s true. Industries have shown time and again that they’d rather send the work to paupers’ hands in countries without rather than automate

I disagree, to the point I'd say the statement is nearly false.

You have to look at what the 'expensive' point of the work is.

In some cases it's electricity, those things generally don't get sent overseas, but instead are highly automated.

In some cases it's waste by product. Those get sent to countries where they don't care if you dump it and poison it.

In some cases it's proximity to other manufacturing of parts you need.

In some cases it's cheap labor without the need for paying healthcare.

Are you suggesting high tech manufacturing moves to china because of cheap electricity?

Surely it was for the cheap labor regardless of how it was achieved.

No, the opposite that there is a considerable amount of automated manufacturing in the US because electricity is cheap.

This is precisely why nVidia is providing GPU to AI companies, and not trying to be one themselves ... loads more money to be made selling shovels to prospectors than in being a prospector

The valid use cases for blockchain are relatively few

The use cases where it gets applied are far more than the valid ones

As for NFTs ... there never was (and never will be) a valid use case - it does not matter if you "own" a digital asset (like an image): a screenshot of it is good enough for 99.99999...% of people, so why pay for the "real" thing?

> The use cases where it gets applied are far more than the valid ones

Yeah, and im seeing the same pattern with AI i think

Define "malicious code"

Now define "unintended side effect"

Now add "no one is maintaining it anymore"[0]

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[0] https://xkcd.com/2347/

how much of a propulsion system could you feasibly pack in a cubesat?

Very very little, but not nothing. I've seen a few tiny deployable solar sails and a few tiny electric motors in my brief research for my video. They seem mostly experimental, to test out theories and miniaturization.

Enough to maintain your CubeSat's orbit and do a bit of pointing, but you'd need something bigger to have the propellant and power to get out of the solar system

Sounds like you have yourself a YCombinator startup proposal in the making

>Yep, but students love reinventing the wheel ;).

And ... professors love making students reinvent the wheel

I thought professors loved making students by the latest version of the book they wrote discussing how the wheel was invented

And that