I’m not sure the what the right tags for this are, curious about people’s thoughts. “Reliability” seems like it should be a fairly recurring topic, and something about “evaluating benchmarks” also seems plausible, not sure if we already have tags that are close to those.
I would say that reproducing high human reliability is called engineering. It took a long time for machines to reach the precision needed to pull that off and there are still areas where it is difficult. The last example that I read about was brick-laying.
Masonry seemed like the perfect candidate for mechanization, but a hundred years of limited success suggests there’s some aspect to it that prevents a machine from easily doing it. This makes it an interesting case study, as it helps define exactly where mechanization becomes difficult—what makes laying a brick so different than, say, hammering a nail, such that the latter is almost completely mechanized and the former is almost completely manual?
I’m not sure the what the right tags for this are, curious about people’s thoughts. “Reliability” seems like it should be a fairly recurring topic, and something about “evaluating benchmarks” also seems plausible, not sure if we already have tags that are close to those.
I would say that reproducing high human reliability is called engineering. It took a long time for machines to reach the precision needed to pull that off and there are still areas where it is difficult. The last example that I read about was brick-laying.
I’m guessing you’re referring to Brian Potter’s post Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers?, which to me is a great example of reality being surprisingly detailed. Quoting Brian:
Yes, that one! Thanks for finding and quoting.
Robust Agents seems sort of similar but not quite right.