[ExI] boston is on it

[Darin Sunley]

I suspect GPT3 and its cousins are more than capable of meeting any
reasonable snarking needs. Granted, the robot will need a wireless network
connection, and now you're running afoul of Rowling's Law*, but she's an
old fuddy-duddy anyways.


* "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it
keeps its brain**.”. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets.

** Actually really good advice, though I suspect it will become
increasingly impractical to actually follow as this century wears on.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:12 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Gadersd via extropy-chat
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> >…Spike, as a former controls engineer…
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> Former?  What’s this “former” jazz?  Retired controls engineer please.  I
> am currently helping our high school rocket team work out an active control
> system for a rocket competition.
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> >… do you see this as primarily an advancement in robotics technology or
> software? I know software has come a long way since that is my field, but I
> am mostly blind on the robotics side of things…
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> Gadersd, actuators and sensors have gotten waaaay better, way the hell
> better than they were even 20 years ago.  The integrated circuits which
> contain three axis accelerometers and three axis angular accelerometers in
> a tiny low cost package blow my mind with their performance.  Those Wii
> controllers have them, the toy quadrotor drones, dang those things have
> gotten amazingly good, and of course cheap, so they can have them in toys.
> Power sources for the actuators are (I presume) lithium batteries, which
> were a giant leap for robot-kind, well for everything-kind.
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> Regarding the controls side of things: when it comes to accelerometers on
> a robot, the more the merrier.  Since they only cost a few bucks each, a
> prole could mount those babies everywhere on her robot, integrate the
> signals, set up some Kalman filters, write the code to do all kindsa cool
> stuff, dance for instance, ping pong, grab the finger of some little commie
> playing the sneaky Karpov variant of the reverse Benoni, all the cool
> interesting fun stuff I hope I live long enough to see robots do.  We might
> get to see a real K2SO, once we figure out a good algorithm for generating
> snarky commentary.
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> Those accelerometer breakthrus were biggity big in the robot world.  Now
> it really is up to training armies of smart young controls engineers to
> write code to integrate the accelerometer data, plus a few snarkmeisters to
> give the resulting robot the proper attitude.
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> On Jan 19, 2023, at 10:56 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> Boston Dynamics gets better all the time.
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> Hey Gear-head!  Please fetch my tools!
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> https://twitter.com/i/status/1615728730969710592
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> Remember how pathetic the robot Olympics were 8 years ago?
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