From what I understand this is the first time training of the system. It’s brand new. Its going to take a while.
Some that would be analogous would be those arm robots. At the start they were very specific and I don’t think very flexible at all. But when I looked at them going into a factory they are very general purpose machines. The manufacturers would come out and install them and make changes easily. They were also talking about how they would train people onsite to make some alterations, e.g. new box sizes.
Seeing as its using neural networks, they are meant to be general purpose machines right? I’m sure they must be more flexible than other types of systems.
I mean grid as in utility built grid solar. Everyone uses the grid so everyone needs to pay for it. But mass development of solar in a field is always going to be cheaper way of building solar than niche solar panel installation on a roof.
It’s weird that solar has become so cheap, especially in certain countries. China is trying to trade and give loans to as many 3rd world countries as it can and simultaneously it is struggling to sell all it’s solar panels.
Why isn’t China giving loans to 3rd world countries to build solar power plants?
It seems like a win win for Chinese panels to go to places like Pakistan and Africa.
I thought and still think this will absolutely revolutionise the world and cause repair of the environment. But it looks like the market doesn’t have faith in this.
first lab-grown beef burger debuted in 2013 at a staggering $330,000, they still need to fall to under $10 per kilo — roughly a tenth of current costs — to be competitive in the mass market
The amount that has fallen, in that time, compared to the amount remaining seems like it isn’t that much.
Hopefully we just a little jump in the industry enough to build some hype and get things rolling again.
If every single job you can imagine, even the future ones, can be done by machines that are vastly cheaper than humans on the minimum wage, you cannot possibly have an economy that is anything like today’s.
UBI would work in a situation where no one has a job and the economy would work almost exactly the same as it does now. Everyone would be university students basically.
I was pretty confident on self driving cars all the way back when it was just google.
But I think the robot/ AI stuff is coming a lot faster than expected. I worked in factories a few year ago and a lot of it is 90% there.
The real key issue is the drop in prices. Robot arms especially I seen dropping. It used to be that one robot would replace the work of 4 or 8 people. (24/7 running) so the machine needed to be a little less than that. But now its so cheap if it replaces 80% of 1 persons work it only need to be really 50% the cost for business to bother to get one. Also that cost is so low it can easily be taken as a trial that might fail but we want to see, if it works we will get 50.
AI is going to be the same, to replace someone it needs to do 100% of the work and be slightly less than a lot of people. To replace some of the work it needs to be priced less than maybe even 1 person, and we are there.
Think they would be able to make some sort of artificial FMT. Probiotics aren’t enough.
I know personally I have taken a boat load of antibiotics as a child and I took some for Cellulitis which because it was a skin infection required a high daily dose, never been the same since.
Remove low density housing downtown and built higher density. Have a land value tax. Prices will drop.
Actually educate and train the local workforce. Only allow immigration when it meets certain requirements or from very close countries. E.g. you have a business with 10 engineers with 5 years of experience. Prove you have tried to hire 10 engineers with 0 years of experience and none have been made redundant in the last 5 years. If there is a country wide shortage of those engineers with 5 years of experience then you can hire foreigners. Have lower business taxes in places with high unemployment. Public works for things like high speed rail and cycle paths.
Have free child care and free things for teenagers to do.
Taxes would go up but so would employment and discretionary income. Crime would drop.
Would be a win, win, win.
All it would require it telling members of the aristocracy, land owning MPs, and rich baby boomers all to fuck off.
Edit: also cheap renewable energy, robotics and precision fermentation is going to destroy the labour market anyway. So that’s going to be a whole thing we need to deal with.
Think we will find life elsewhere in the solar system first.
Think the big question is why life isn’t becoming intelligent (or why don’t we know). It just seems like life has to be everywhere. If it’s not then it’s going to be really fucking weird.