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modeless 43 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

Yeah. Google was too impatient and forced BD to productize prematurely (Spot, Handle), then dumped them when it didn't work out immediately. AI just wasn't ready yet. Imagine if Google had let BD focus on research until DeepMind was ready with the AI side of things. I think with the right joint research program they could have already been deploying humanoids today.

Iulioh 43 days ago | [–]

Google dumping a project when it does not produce instant results?

That seems out of character

protonbob 43 days ago | [–]

Wow I’m so glad that didn’t happen.

modeless 42 days ago | [–]

You'd rather we end up with Chinese humanoids? Because they're coming either way.

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