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Posted by zdw 2 days ago

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment(www.wired.com)
https://archive.is/Wro1e
134 points | 180 commentspage 3
semiquaver 10 hours ago|
https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
rossdavidh 9 hours ago||
Do they mean, the moment when everyone realizes it's not as useful as they at first thought?
serf 8 hours ago||
just because it's an article about techie stuff doesn't mean all the photojournalism has to be color-graded like a Matrix movie.

.. but it's kind of funny to read the fluff PR about saving humanity while juxtaposing it against photos that look like they may as well be screencaps from Prometheus or Black Mirror.

see : two startled victims under a blue arctic sun - https://media.wired.com/photos/69f11cbf1b1015e12f65d23e/mast...

SpaceNoodled 12 hours ago||
> a ChatGPT moment for the physical world.

That's not a good thing, WIRED.

commandlinefan 11 hours ago||
I'm having some house painting done and the painter asked me what line of work I was in. When I said computer programming he said, "ooh, bet you're worried about AI! At least painters are safe!"
euroderf 2 hours ago||
He "might" be but not any of his kids going into the business. The home maintenance bots will invade slowly, then all at once.
gwbas1c 12 hours ago|||
I want Rosie (fictional robot from the TV show "The Jetsons")

Basically, I want a robotic butler / maid that will do most of the cleanup around the house.

mitthrowaway2 11 hours ago|||
Unfortunately, the only robots available will be connected to the cloud, paid by subscription, and will gather a continuous feed of audio-video data from you and your home. And sometimes it will be teleoperated, and you might not know when.

I'd rather do my own cleanup, personally.

tintor 1 hour ago|||
Cloud connected (robot AI in cloud) home robots would be very unsafe, due to network slowdown/outages. Imagine it freezing/stopping right after it turns on water faucet or stovetop.
Ifkaluva 11 hours ago||||
I bet China will race to the bottom with cheap versions. 3D printers and LLMs, next home robots
dogcomplex 10 hours ago||||
Why would consumers settle for that? Local models have scaled quite quickly. Just pair the bot with a LAN server as the brain that keeps all your data private.

Barring that, choose bots that use Zero Knowledge Proof architectures for all data so you know there's no in/out of personal data, only security proofs. This makes rental robots certifiably private too.

Becuase 9 hours ago||
They've settled for that in:

* Phones * Cars * Robotic Vacuums * Kitchen Appliances * Televisions * Home Lighting * Home security systems, doorbells, and locks * Web browsers * Operating Systems

So, uh, yeah, I'm pretty confident users will settle for that in robots too.

progval 10 hours ago|||
Some of them will be paid by subscription and have ads
davely 12 hours ago||||
Haha! Instead, you’ll get a robot that will make you art, music, and tell you stories and you get to toil away cleaning the house.
conception 11 hours ago|||
“Sure I’ll clean up the house, Mr. J. While I’m doing, so have you seen the new shoes from crocs? They’re sponsored by the Jenners and have great new designs with all of your favorite movie characters on them! Would you like me to order you a pair?”
baldeagle 11 hours ago||
The first voice accessed (in my brain) by this dialog was Harley Quinn, it took a moment for it to fall back to Rosie.
conception 2 hours ago||
“Hey Mr J for a low 7.99 a month I can unlock the Harley Quinn voice pack! For 39.99 we can upgrade you to unlock TikTok Rosie dance mode with special Harley Fortnite dance, a joker LCD breastplate for me and special “psycho partner” romance mode. What so you say, Mr J?”
dataviz1000 8 hours ago|||
I've spent ~$500 this month trying to get an LLM model to solve a Rubik's Cube. They can't. I'll post my Rubik's Cube MCP server next week if anyone wants to prove me wrong.

1. a human child learning 6 algorithms and a weekend can solve a Rubik's Cube

2. Reenforcement learning can solve a Rubik's Cube

3. The best LLM model using recursive tuning or not can't solve a Rubik's Cube.

Claude 4.6 got 60% of the way but couldn't figure out the last steps after running for 20+ minutes and hundreds of thousands of tokens.

ReptileMan 1 hour ago||
I am not sure how to say it exactly, but right now we are in situation in which we are complaining that a magical technology is not magical enough.
SpaceNoodled 29 minutes ago||
No, we're complaining that a technology that's hyped as an expert-level replacement for humans is completely inept.
z3c0 11 hours ago||
Given how many people attempted to date their computer after ChatGPT launched, I don't even want to imagine what this technology has in store.
dataking 13 hours ago||
no paywall: https://archive.is/Wro1e
kentonv 12 hours ago|
archive.is is malicious -- as in, uses your browser to launch DDoS attacks, and other things.

Stop using it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

BeetleB 10 hours ago|||
Is the person behind archive.today the same operator as archive.is?
papercrane 9 hours ago||
Yes, they have a number of domain names, archive.is and archive.today are the most well known ones.
ReptileMan 1 hour ago||||
Just run in the console window=null and you are good. It is valuable service until the websites get their shit together and finally fix their payments model.
cubefox 11 hours ago||||
> archive.is is malicious -- as in, uses your browser to launch DDoS attacks, and other things.

I think the attack was itself a response to a doxxing attempt. Also, archive.is being a free service doesn't quite fit with claiming they are malicious. The overall picture seems still positive.

kentonv 4 hours ago||
I don't care what the attack is responding to, nor do I care what services are being provided.

If, when I visit your site, your site causes my browser to participate in a DDoS attack without my knowledge, your site is malicious.

cubefox 1 hour ago||
If you didn't care about the service you wouldn't visit their website in the first place, in which case there is no problem.
haarts 11 hours ago|||
Is there an alternative?
sanskritical 11 hours ago||
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/when-...

Works for me. I use only Tor so it is actually far more accessible. Archive.is uses Google's Recaptcha, which for some reason rejects valid solutions submitted via Tor.

chatmasta 11 hours ago||
I’m not sure that is always a valid CAPTCHA and not one being proxied to you for solving it on behalf of some bot (presumably a crawler).
sanskritical 11 hours ago||
I don't know. I think people would notice if Google were being MITM'd on Tor.
chatmasta 10 hours ago||
You don’t need to MITM it, this was a common pattern for a long time (not sure it still works though). There was no origin verification so you could just use a different site ID and have people respond to captchas you encountered on that site.
mainmin8t 4 hours ago|
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