MrLukeLukasson on Nostr: AI knows how to make a peanut butter sandwich and this will change everything. Let me ...
AI knows how to make a peanut butter sandwich and this will change everything.
Let me explain.
There's a very popular example in software engineering and computer science classes.
It aims to teach someone to "think like a computer".
Simply ask someone the question: "How do you make a sandwich?"
(If you like, stop here for a couple of minutes and think for yourself :))
Well, how do you make a sandwich? We tend to think this is very simple and, typically, come up with generic and broad descriptions.
"Place the bread, use a knife to spread peanut butter, easy."
Ok, true, but what if you want to program a machine to do the same?
Will this be enough?
See, computers were very stupid up until recently. It's all just zeroes and ones.
You have to explain every little detail, in the correct order, or else the program will crash and, in this case, the machine will fail to produce something as simple as a peanut butter sandwich.
"Place the bread, use a knife to spread peanut butter, finished."
What bread?
How do I need to place the bread?
What if it is not sliced already?
What knife do I need to use?
What if the peanut butter bottle is closed?
Does the machine know when to stop adding peanut butter?
How much is enough peanut butter?
Does the machine know to only add peanut butter to one side of the bread?
...
You get the drill.
Computers were very stupid.
You had to explain every little detail.
You had to.
That's history. We now got AI and that will change everything.
Yes, it's still clunky and doesn't work right away. But you can now just ask the AI "how to make a peanut butter sandwich" and it can comes up with a much more detailed version than just the generic and broad version presented in the beginning.
This is the very reason why robots will become reality.
Before, robots were just machines and you had to explain everything in full detail.
Very cumbersome, error prone, and expensive.
It's also why we build huge factory lines that do just a few single jobs at a time.
A factory line for baking bread.
A factory line for slicing bread.
A factory line for packaging.
A factory line for ...
AI makes it possible to have robots that learn and teach things to themselves.
Now, AI and robots might not replace factory lines.
Doing one thing is "easier to explain to the one machine" (i.e. slicing bread). But there's other benefits as well. You can add multiple knifes to one machine and slice the whole bread at once.
A human like robots with AI might be more intelligent than that single machine, but still not faster when it comes to slicing bread, because it may also have just 2 arms.
But AI and robots will change industries like we never saw before.
We saw this before.
It took 40 workers a whole weak to work a field of potatoes.
It now takes 1 worker and a tractor to do the same amount of work (or maybe even faster, or work bigger fields).
The same will happen again. But it will affect pretty much any industry.
I don't think we should be fearful of it.
We should embrace it.
It will make producing goods and services cheaper than we can imagine now.
It will make us more productive as a species.
The future will be bright and abundant.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/6ZrGmeZd0E3oNzgeK6iqzTzYg
Let me explain.
There's a very popular example in software engineering and computer science classes.
It aims to teach someone to "think like a computer".
Simply ask someone the question: "How do you make a sandwich?"
(If you like, stop here for a couple of minutes and think for yourself :))
Well, how do you make a sandwich? We tend to think this is very simple and, typically, come up with generic and broad descriptions.
"Place the bread, use a knife to spread peanut butter, easy."
Ok, true, but what if you want to program a machine to do the same?
Will this be enough?
See, computers were very stupid up until recently. It's all just zeroes and ones.
You have to explain every little detail, in the correct order, or else the program will crash and, in this case, the machine will fail to produce something as simple as a peanut butter sandwich.
"Place the bread, use a knife to spread peanut butter, finished."
What bread?
How do I need to place the bread?
What if it is not sliced already?
What knife do I need to use?
What if the peanut butter bottle is closed?
Does the machine know when to stop adding peanut butter?
How much is enough peanut butter?
Does the machine know to only add peanut butter to one side of the bread?
...
You get the drill.
Computers were very stupid.
You had to explain every little detail.
You had to.
That's history. We now got AI and that will change everything.
Yes, it's still clunky and doesn't work right away. But you can now just ask the AI "how to make a peanut butter sandwich" and it can comes up with a much more detailed version than just the generic and broad version presented in the beginning.
This is the very reason why robots will become reality.
Before, robots were just machines and you had to explain everything in full detail.
Very cumbersome, error prone, and expensive.
It's also why we build huge factory lines that do just a few single jobs at a time.
A factory line for baking bread.
A factory line for slicing bread.
A factory line for packaging.
A factory line for ...
AI makes it possible to have robots that learn and teach things to themselves.
Now, AI and robots might not replace factory lines.
Doing one thing is "easier to explain to the one machine" (i.e. slicing bread). But there's other benefits as well. You can add multiple knifes to one machine and slice the whole bread at once.
A human like robots with AI might be more intelligent than that single machine, but still not faster when it comes to slicing bread, because it may also have just 2 arms.
But AI and robots will change industries like we never saw before.
We saw this before.
It took 40 workers a whole weak to work a field of potatoes.
It now takes 1 worker and a tractor to do the same amount of work (or maybe even faster, or work bigger fields).
The same will happen again. But it will affect pretty much any industry.
I don't think we should be fearful of it.
We should embrace it.
It will make producing goods and services cheaper than we can imagine now.
It will make us more productive as a species.
The future will be bright and abundant.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/6ZrGmeZd0E3oNzgeK6iqzTzYg