To be more useful, robots need to become lazier.
To be more useful, robots need to become lazier.
Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer.
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“When we walk down the street, we know what we need to pay attention to—and what we don’t. Robots, on the other hand, treat all the information they receive about their surroundings with equal importance. Driverless cars have to continuously analyze data about things around them whether or not they are relevant. This keeps drivers and pedestrians safe, but it draws on a lot of energy and computing power.”
Laziness is the number one skill anyone innovative should have. Whoever invented the wheel definitely didn’t do it because they liked work. It was because they hated it knew there had to be a better way.
So, what we really need is lazier inventors. Only then will we get lazier robots.
Give me 10k€ a month without me working and I'll gladly become one of the so called "lazy inventors".
Smart companies do payout when employees find some way to save a bunch of money. I don't know why so many companies have a "we own anything you invent clause in employment contracts" just stifles innovation.
Don't many game engines kinda sorta do this?
Yes, but game engines also hold the entire world inside themselves. There's no guessing, no estimating, no making sure that what it's looking at is actually a human or a bush - it already knows that.
The problem with computer vision being lazy is that it can't ignore something without understanding what it's looking at, and it can't understand what it's looking at without analyzing the data. It's a circular problem, and will be ridiculously hard to solve - the crux of the issue is that we as people are analyzing that same data, we just don't realize it.
Analyzing lazily by defalt and only take a closer look at the interesting bits, like the brain does with optical?
What if there’s a way to cut that down by teaching robots what they should prioritize and what they can safely ignore?
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