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djeastmyesterday at 7:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

>From these companies' standpoint, I think they would choose the latter.

Ever since these things came about I've wondered why they haven't been doing this the whole time. If they've got the "do-anything" robot and can scale a billion of them, why aren't they creating a Do-Everything conglomerate that disrupts every possible industry with zero/negligible labor costs?

The only answer I've come up with is that they still need to train/siphon off each industry's current expertise by having those users interact with the current models and adjusting. If that hypothesis is correct then within a few years they'll have no need for users anymore.


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johnnienakedtoday at 9:45 AM

Because, like 98% of people in this space, you don't mention or even consider cost. Improving the lower bound of Riemann is impressive, but how impressive would it remain if it was announced that training and inference cost $1 billion dollars?

Not as much, I predict