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Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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392 points lairv | 4 comments | 09 Oct 25 13:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.685s | source
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JoeAltmaier ◴[09 Oct 25 16:27 UTC] No.45529898[source]▶
Folks are very critical. Consider: this is the worst they will ever be. You improve one robot at one task, they all can share that training. It will only get better from here.
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consumer451 ◴[09 Oct 25 16:50 UTC] No.45530181[source]▶
I know that a video can be faked, cherry-picked, etc. Even knowing all that, I find this to be significant advancement, scary, and very cool.

People being super negative about this is a bit surprising to me.

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1. IshKebab ◴[09 Oct 25 21:43 UTC] No.45533412[source]▶
It's HN. One of the most negative places on the internet in my experience.

I guess it's kind of natural because when you agree with stuff there's not much value saying "yes this is right" but if you disagree then you generally have a lot to say about why.

But also I think there are a lot of curmudgeons here. Back in my day we didn't need no stinkin robots and AI and toktik. And anyway I could make a way better robot, this is no big deal.

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2. consumer451 ◴[09 Oct 25 22:11 UTC] No.45533632[source]▶
> there's not much value saying "yes this is right"

This is a major flaw in social media/forums that distorts public opinion so very much.

3. lackoftactics ◴[10 Oct 25 13:16 UTC] No.45538650[source]▶
To be honest, the vibe of Hacker News is starting to grow on me. Yes, it's often too negative and you have to dose it, but we shouldn't view technology as magic. It's sometimes a hard pill to swallow, but even the creators of AI, robotics, and cloud innovations can be blind to the significant roadblocks that lie ahead; progress isn't linear.

I remain excited about AI and my master's thesis on fine-tuning transformers with LoRA. However, Hacker News has encouraged me to dive deeper and recognize that current architectures may not be sufficient. Additionally, Richard Sutton was a revelation for me in understanding how gradient descent truly works.

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4. IshKebab ◴[10 Oct 25 14:01 UTC] No.45539183[source]▶
I guess it beats the LinkedIn vibe where everything is perfect and amazing!