Yes. The alternate approach to achieving a self-reproducing machine is to build a humanoid robot that can be dropped into existing factories, then gradually replace the workers that build it with robots. That path may well be the one that succeeds. Either path delivers an enormous expansion of industrial capabilities.
Ah, hmm I don’t know if this is really true, the humanoid robots aren’t going to be replacing the humans doing debugging processes, which I feel is where a lot of the bottlenecks are, because you don’t have many humans who can do that.
So on reflection, closing the loop might require deliberately engineering things so that bugs don’t occur, or so that they’re solved in cruder ways that pre-AGI ML can do, more in the direction of ‘demolish and recycle the entire factory when it wears out’, but hopefully not that far, and that probably isn’t cost-effective. Unless it is??
Yes. The alternate approach to achieving a self-reproducing machine is to build a humanoid robot that can be dropped into existing factories, then gradually replace the workers that build it with robots. That path may well be the one that succeeds. Either path delivers an enormous expansion of industrial capabilities.
Ah, hmm I don’t know if this is really true, the humanoid robots aren’t going to be replacing the humans doing debugging processes, which I feel is where a lot of the bottlenecks are, because you don’t have many humans who can do that.
So on reflection, closing the loop might require deliberately engineering things so that bugs don’t occur, or so that they’re solved in cruder ways that pre-AGI ML can do, more in the direction of ‘demolish and recycle the entire factory when it wears out’, but hopefully not that far, and that probably isn’t cost-effective. Unless it is??