<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br><div><br></div><div>* "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.</div></div><div><br></div><div>** Actually really good advice, though I suspect it will become increasingly impractical to actually follow as this century wears on.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:12 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg26786885213450295"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_26786885213450295WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gadersd via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] boston is on it<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…Spike, as a former controls engineer…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>… 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…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Jan 19, 2023, at 10:56 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Boston Dynamics gets better all the time.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hey Gear-head! Please fetch my tools!<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1615728730969710592" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://twitter.com/i/status/1615728730969710592</span></a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Remember how pathetic the robot Olympics were 8 years ago? <span class="m_26786885213450295apple-converted-space"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span></a><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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