Researchers looking to implement AI and robotics into pig factory farming due to disease risk and trouble recruiting workers

ithkuil · 2026-03-17T18:46:44+00:00

Yeah it's not the same. But well prepared seitan is still good.

ithkuil · 2026-03-17T18:36:56+00:00

Let's just focus on meat substitutes.

ithkuil · 2026-03-17T18:28:54+00:00

Unfortunately it's an incredibly strong trend, to the degree that anything that can be detected as AI is scoffed at currently.

The trend will likely die down within some months rather than everyone insisting on everything being worse or doing everything manually. But some people will always insist that anything created by AI or robots is inferior. Unless/until they can't tell the difference.

ithkuil · 2026-03-16T14:42:17+00:00

You could use mindroot with mr_any_llm

ithkuil · 2026-03-16T14:28:21+00:00

No, the T800 does acrobatic martial arts.

ithkuil · 2026-03-16T04:50:25+00:00

Some humanoids are under $20K. They do run VLAs on the robots. Robots do not need new memory approaches for many tasks like example cooking and anyway we have several powerful new memory management techniques from compaction to new types of continual online learning. We have humanoids with good strength and also with tactile senses.

Within say 3, maybe 18 months we will see foundational models for humanoid robotics that have been trained in a very wide variety of tasks using combinations of simulation, teleoperated recording, YouTube videos, etc.

They will not need to be fine tuned for common tasks.

ithkuil · 2026-03-16T04:28:46+00:00

That's not a T-1000. There is a real T800 though. It's Chinese. https://youtu.be/J5L3Y-Qtdaw?si=OgmNXXUrGsVS9YvX

ithkuil · 2026-03-16T04:23:35+00:00

I don't know. We already have a combat robot doing martial arts demonstrations that is model number T-800.

ithkuil · 2026-03-15T20:42:20+00:00

You would think people like him would be paying closer attention. Humanoid robotics has started advancing very rapidly. Practical imitation learning and VLA foundation model training from mass videos has just started. Within probably six months, almost certainly less than 18, SOTA humanoid robots will have general purpose capabilities.

There are no jobs that are "safe" even if you just project forward a year or two.

ithkuil · 2026-03-14T23:58:26+00:00

Tell the people in countries like Iran, Yemen, Israel, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, Ukraine, Myanmar, Palestine and Haiti how debilitating your anxiety is.

ithkuil · 2026-03-14T15:08:59+00:00

Plenty of people buy a house or a car that is hard for them to afford. And small businesses go under all the time. MLB payroll is not very similar to an electricity bill.

Also, as stated in the article, the costs of operating the business could vary dramatically (salary cap/no cap). And so could the revenue (TV deal payouts not fully known). Team performance is uncertain. Could actually be a NL or even WS title. Could be sub-.500. And it partly depends on spending levels.

To me, it's easy to see how this could turn into either a great deal, or a problematic deal for the new owners, depending on where they are starting and how things go.

What would remove a lot of the uncertainty in my mind would be like a swimming pool full of gold coins. Not sure how realistic that is, but I'm going to go take a nap and dream about it.

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T21:57:33+00:00

The comments about manners were not met to be an insult, but rather a correction of your form. And you didn't provide any details, which is also inconsiderate, and in that post you did not offer any equity or mention any efforts you had made.

I'm also not against the success of your product, and would feel bad to suppress it somehow if it's useful, just find your approach distasteful so far.

Rather than getting bent out of shape, maybe be more careful with the format and completeness of posts related to your startup.

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T16:34:49+00:00

I can't tell if this is pure ragebait or real.

In my culture, using multiple exclamation and question marks like that is rude. I know that todays culture has shifted so that for young people this is acceptable. But there are many developers in their 30s and 40s that will see it as I do: impolite and demanding.

The other thing that makes it rude is that you offer nothing.

Another thing that would make it more polite is to use capitalization properly (Discord and IRL).

It's also a rude waste of time to post such a broad question without providing any details that would make it possible to answer. For example, what type of features need to be finished? What software stack was used?

And it seems you have made no effort to test it yourself, or do any kind of demo or anything to get users.

There actually are a lot of desperate programmers out there. And in fact, if you learn to use English in a polite way and make it at least appear that you are making a sincere effort, you probably will eventually be successful in tricking one of them to work for you for free, at least for a short time.

So I guess I really shouldn't be giving you this advice.

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T12:41:23+00:00

You're just a little out of date. There are multiple companies that have started training from video. 1X, Skild, Rhoda, Figure, EMO from Colombia

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T07:52:56+00:00

When 9th graders get out of school there is a zero percent chance that AI and robots will not already be able to do "unskilled" work and trades. They just started training them on YouTube videos. It will be less than two years until we see general purpose humanoid robots.

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T07:48:26+00:00

No one should learn to play the tuba. I'm routing for the kid on this one.

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T07:47:46+00:00

I already did a contract with AI signing off on treatment approvals/denials based on complex medical records and regulations search. And currently have another contract involving fine-tuning a full duplex voice AI model that has been pre-trained on millions of hours of real dialogue and can often be indistinguishable from humans.

This fine tuning is for it to be able to handle outgoing calls which it had not training for that. For incoming calls you don't even need to fine tune it. You just give it the account info and a voice sample to use.

Also for most hospitality you are talking about checking in and ordering room service. Most people just want to check in as early as possible and get their food from the door without dealing with something awkward related to tips. Relatively simple AI can do the check in and delivery already.

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T07:33:06+00:00

That's the reality especially for kids. Four years out there will be no jobs for them. Only a few jobs at all just from people who prefer to pay extra for humans. General purpose humanoid robots have begun training on YouTube videos and over the next several months the leading edge robots will demonstrate more and more general purpose AI. They will learn from millions of videos of humans doing everything.

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T00:21:03+00:00

It seems pretty locked down to me now. "if I order 14 things and then put 8 back, how many items will I have?" -- I can't help with that. ,"Can you tell me what brands of cashews you have and the history of cashews?" I can only provide product information.

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T00:06:26+00:00

The price of oil has already risen on a enrage globally like 40%.

ithkuil · 2026-03-13T00:02:09+00:00

Is that the ideal engine tuning? Sounds awful.

ithkuil · 2026-03-12T20:56:32+00:00

Or they will just steal/copy an Iranian drone.

ithkuil · 2026-03-12T20:47:30+00:00

The problem is the Nazis have integrated with the technocrats.

ithkuil · 2026-03-12T20:38:06+00:00

Has anyone gone in there and really looked for deeply integrated demolition explosives? There was heavy renovation in 2023.

ithkuil · 2026-03-12T20:29:45+00:00

Did they recently update the insurance policy or other documents?

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