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Peter McAllister

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253 total appearances

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A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

It's not.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

And that happened to me for two weeks, driving around Spain.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

And that's just because that's the way our brain works.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

So my view on it is that we live in a bipedal world.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

And if we want a generalist robot, it'll need to be bipedal and be able to do the sorts of things that we do.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

But a lot of the tasks that we do,

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

would want a robot to do don't need to be a bipedal six foot tall handsy type thing so i think what we're going to get is a divergence in the kinds of robots that are out there that are physically built for their own niches of what it is they need to do and how the ui is for that

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

be where the fun is do you have a bipedal robot that wanders around and is the ui for all of these various other bits and pieces or is it holographic or how do you make all of that work or is it already there and it's called siri

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

But I don't see us being in a world populated with bipedal robots wandering around carrying guns or anything along those lines.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

I see us walking down the street with a whole bunch of little mice-type robots going off and cleaning the road or that kind of thing, rather than making them all in our own image.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

Because generally speaking, the human body is pretty bad.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

It's pretty rubbish for most things, except it carries around a pretty good brain.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

And it makes good tools.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

But the rest of it, we're average.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

We don't run that fast.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

We don't jump high that fast.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

We don't have that much strength.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

We can't do all sorts of bits and pieces.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

It's a really bad model to follow.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
Why Small AI Mistakes Become Massive Disasters - Peter McAllister Tells Us

But we'll start in the medical field.