> Nah, I've been waiting for this since Adobe released Content Aware Fill over a decade ago.
If you were expecting Photoshop, an image manipulator, to produce a website, which is a mixture of HTML (text) and images, on the basis of a combination of a prompt and an example image… then you were more disconnected from the state of AI research at that time than you're accusing me of being now.
> We are destroying the biosphere quickly. Have you seen a reef lately? Globally we still rely on our biosphere for food. We haven't solved this problem. If we can't feed everyone it's not inhabitable.
There are many known solutions, both to the destruction and the pollution, and indeed to feeding people in closed systems. All we have to do for any of these is… implement them.
>> lots of people out there get benefits from the things that cause all the various kinds of pollution
> Hence we need lots of breakthroughs to replace these old technologies, whether they be fishing or cancer treatments.
The "breakthroughs" are in the past, we've already got them — we just need to do them.
>> AI can easily follow the scientific method,
> It can't interact with the world so it can't perform science.
Can too, so you're wrong. In fact, most science these days involves tools that are controlled by computers, so it would be less wrong (but still a bit wrong) to say that humans can't do science.
> Boston Dynamics has teams of human beings making robots, which are largely preprogrammed.
Irrelevant.
Also, do actually follow that link I gave you before: https://github.com/GT-RIPL/Awesome-LLM-Robotics
> Making stuff in real life is really hard even with humans.
Most of the problems with manufacturing these days are specifically the human part of it. Computer memory used to be hand-knitted, we don't do that for modern computers and for good reason.
> We are so far away from needing to worry about this sort of AI safety. I mean, we haven't solved robotic fabric handling yet, it's why we still have sweatshops sewing our clothes.
Simultaneously irrelevant (lots of research doesn't involve fabric handling), and false.
So incredibly and wildly false that when I searched for examples, I got a page of sponsored adverts for different fabric handling robots before the content.
Here's the first non-sponsored search result, a corporate video from a year ago, so unlikely to be state-of-the-art today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JjUnKpsJRM (They're specifically about re-shoring sewing away from sweatshops).
