The tech industry is soon going to need another thing to hype.
And that’s because A.I. ain’t likely to make big revenue gains for a long, long time – if it ever is the money maker that’s promised.
My suspicion is that the next hype cycle will be robotics. Why?
Because robotics is tangible. People instantly know the utility of a robot because they’ve been the focus of science fiction for the past 100+ years. For generations, the public has been sold on robots.
You can also tie robotics to A.I. and say, “Look, here’s the use case for the previous thing we hyped!”
OK but robotics is HARD.
@futurebird @atomicpoet not harder then actually useful AI. The imagined need to make them humanoid will make it much harder though.
@gdupont Automated logistics, and robot aided manufacturing has been things for a very long time. When most companies/people talk AI they mean AGI witch has not been proven at all.
@ekg indeed, I consider AGI to be vaporeware... just a marketing keyword that do not really have sense.
As for robotics, I was more thinking about the somehow humanoid robots that are now pushed as a new trend. The main difference is these being realease for "open world" (and not limited to factories/storage facilities like today).
@gdupont as you may have noted I caveat that my comment wasn't about humanoid robots, witch has not been proven either.
Robotics is hard. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly hard it is. I mean, you may think it's hard to build a useful AI, but that's just peanuts to robotics.
@seth Robotics is proven AGI isn't. I am know that machine learning is used all over the place, so is cnc.
@ekg @futurebird @atomicpoet yes it is significantly harder than usefull AI. Most of the AI use cases that are falling short are the ones facing "real world" environment (IE fully autonomous car as a symptomatic example). Robots are facing this real world day one (and I'm not even mentioning the hardware part that is also much more complex because "physics")