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Old 02-17-2026, 01:46 PM   #901
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Chinese robots, this is the future.

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Old 02-17-2026, 01:49 PM   #902
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It's amazing how wholly uninteresting that is.
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Old 02-17-2026, 02:19 PM   #903
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I think people often conflate twoseparate conversations when talking about AI.

1) AI will displace significant amounts of labour in a relatively short time frame
2) AI has been over capitalized and under delivering what was promised. — AGI

Both of these can be true at the same time and likely are.

Yes there is likely a bubble that will burst and do significant economic harm but there will also be a few companies coming out of this that dominate the future and the labour make up of that future will be different.
I mostly agree, but I don't think too many people promised AGI by now. Even the ones promising it in 2026 feel ambitious, despite the fact their numbers are growing. A couple years ago it wasn't uncommon to have most estimates be a decade to several decades away. You don't hear many of those anymore (which isn't to say they're wrong, just not as numerous).



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It's amazing how wholly uninteresting that is.
As art or watching a show, I see what you might mean there. In general though, what's happening in robotics is staggering. You've got them doing things that people with PhD's in robotics had pegged as 50 years out just a couple years ago.

It's already overwhelming, and if we do happen to hit AGI in the next 1-5 years, progress should explode from there. Assuming they don't kill us. Which would also make videos like this pretty interesting.
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Old 02-17-2026, 02:42 PM   #904
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Apple is a notable exception. They're spending very little, likely on the basis that either the investments will never pay off, or AI will just become a commodity that they can pay for down the road. Which is probably a decent bet for them.
Apple has recently signed with Google to provide an AI powered version of Siri using Gemini.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/appl...ri-gemini.html

Probably a wise decision.
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Chinese robots, this is the future.

I had a dream over 25 years ago. I awoke, and wrote down some very important instructions. "Do not give robots knives" and fell back asleep. I've never forgotten that. Finally relevant.
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Apple has recently signed with Google to provide an AI powered version of Siri using Gemini.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/appl...ri-gemini.html

Probably a wise decision.
Didn't they try that once with Anthropic or OpenAI or something, and it failed pretty bad early on?
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Old 02-17-2026, 03:36 PM   #907
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It's amazing how wholly uninteresting that is.
Uninteresting right now but they are only one step away from being militarized - give them an ak47 and a heat sensor and you’re done.
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Old 02-17-2026, 03:58 PM   #908
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Wow, how big is the project? I must be doing way easier stuff as I've pretty much stopped running into show-stopping problems and the extent of my efforts to keep things on track is to tell it to make notes and stay on track. The amount of stuff I'm 1-shotting is getting out of hand.

I find the issue of it being overly confident largely being dealt with by it being able to take a spin through whatever it's creating and test it out in a bunch of different configurations.
Well I don't think it's that large, but the core functionality is not common and so it has a great deal of difficulty with it. I've pretty well determined that I have to write that portion using organic brain matter.

It also made a god object (1400 lines of code... mmm!!!) and so I had to tell it to use proper SOLID principles to prevent this from happening again.

Yeah I mean if you're making yet another customer/user management module - what I call the address book - it does great with stuff like that.
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Didn't they try that once with Anthropic or OpenAI or something, and it failed pretty bad early on?
Apple claimed to integrate chatgpt in Apple Intelligence back in 2024 with amazing AI tools, but it basically was complete fake news / vapourware.





But honestly Apple users aren't known to be buying for state of the art and are ok with being 5-10 years behind on current technology

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Uninteresting right now but they are only one step away from being militarized - give them an ak47 and a heat sensor and you’re done.
If that does it for you.
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