• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Yeah, Cloudflare is doing some interesting things. But, for the most part those aren’t consumer-focused services.

    Perplexity is one of the worst of the AI offenders. Their crawlers don’t respect “robots.txt” or other things that say that LLM crawling isn’t allowed.

    For self-driving cars, I’ll give Google credit there. Their Waymo division is really making progress in self-driving cars. They didn’t come up with the concept, but they’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

    OTOH, Tesla’s self-driving is a joke. In fact, by calling their bullshit “full self-driving”, they’ve forced the legitimate self driving car companies to use a different term. Tesla’s self driving is so bad that it’s hurting the rest of the industry and setting back the possibility of actual self-driving vehicles by years.

    Boston Dynamics humanoid robots are cool, I’m not as impressed with their robodog though. But, from what I saw from Beijing last week, they’re already way ahead of Boston Dynamics. Even when some of their bots were failing, the kinds of movement they were making before they failed seemed more advanced (and natural) than the Boston Dynamics bots.

    I disagree with some of your choices, but you’ve got some good ideas too.

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      4 days ago

      Perplexitys methods are bad but the concept of a natural language web browser is a completely unique thing and thats interesting to me. Its like when google enabled people to search “how to change a tire” instead of before where people searched with keywords.

      Idk how you can say self driving tech is not cool. Even the worst self driving which is Tesla’s is still very impressive. Telsa can drive autonomously through the street using only cameras. Is it perfect no but its still very good and its only a joke because of how good the competition is. That gives me a lot of hope for self driving cars.

      As for that Chinese robot dog yeah I see the video that got put out, I dont think it blows away Boston dynamics version in anything but manufacturing costs. All the falling and all terrain movement the Chinese dog can do has been done by Boston dynamics for almost 5 years at this point.

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        3 days ago

        Self driving tech is cool. Tesla’s take on Self Driving is not cool because it’s not effective.

        Telsa can drive autonomously through the street using only cameras.

        Sorta… a bit… in a way that will lead to an accident sooner or later. If they put LIDAR on their cars it would be far more effective, but Musk wants to be different. He insists on only using cameras even though you can’t safely do self-driving with only cameras. Typical Musk, cutting corners and lying.

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          3 days ago

          Yeah its dumb to not use lidar and elon musk sucks but the cars can self drive without a doubt. That self driving is impressive even if waymo is already doing taxi services with near perfect driving for the past few years.

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            3 days ago

            the cars can self drive without a doubt

            So can my sister’s car for a few seconds if you put the cruise control on. But it can’t self-drive safely, and neither can Teslas. But, my sister’s car doesn’t advertise the ability to self-drive. But, Musk pretends that Telsas can, which is extremely dangerous. He’s killing people by muddying the waters and pretending his cars can self-drive safely.