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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/SpecialistHeavy5873 on 2024-01-19 04:20:34+00:00.
A few months ago when all the focus was on the latest text/image models, I predicted video generation would be next and then after advanced video/vision models, physical robots would be the only thing left.
And that's exactly what's happened, but much faster than i thought. At that time even for video people were predicting years, let alone robots. But now we have more and more video/vision models, and in the past few weeks robots doing all kinds of things have filled the news. People are saying 2024 will be the year of robotics.
The point of this post is, how quickly people move from one thing to the next when it's solved. When you're in the middle of it, it always seems slow as you're only focusing on the latest developments. Since the next advancement has many more layers to it (robots are much harder than video, video is much harder than image), it seems slow when you're only focusing on that specific technology. But once it solved, people forget about it and move on to the next thing. And the speed keeps increasing exponentially.
When robotics are solved, everyone will suddenly move on to the next possible advancement after physical embodiment.