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by tarikozket 627 days ago
someone gotta plug the GPUs in and run the cables, right?
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there should be robot for that
There should be and could be a robot for everything. The scale and variability of the tasks just don't make them viable.

I should have a machine that peels my potatoes. I should have a machine that cooks me my favorite meal at the push of a button. I should have a machine that I can feed fabric into and it will sew me a shirt. All of these things are doable, but they don't make economic sense or they need to handle too many unforeseen cases.

A machine that sews shirts doesn't make sense to have at home, but if you're selling millions of shirts then it does. Same for all the rest.

A machine that runs all the cables etc needs to be too complicated to handle all the eventualities that there isn't enough scale (yet) to justify its existence. Basically, we don't build enough data centers.

When it comes to arms people don't seem to have problems with so many zeroes in cost and scale in general. Make fabs, not war.
But after they plug in the GPUs and run the cables, Large Language Models will give everyone personal robot servants and jetpacks while allowing {your generous investment nation here} to conquer all the economies. /s