Thanks for this example. I definitely see ridiculous headlines like that from less reputable places. Do you also have examples from the type of news media I’m talking about like WSJ? For example, searching “Washington Post AI robotics” I get headlines:
“Humanoid robots were sci-fi. Suddenly they’re everywhere” about companies investing in and demoing humanoid robots, which seems to be true.
“Not ready for robots in homes? The maker of a friendly new humanoid thinks it might change your mind” about the product “Sprout” by Fauna Robotics, which seems okay unless Fauna is completely faking it
“Russia’s much-hyped humanoid robot face-plants onstage during debut” OK
“Opinion | The Chinese robots are coming” hard to assess but not particularly hyperbolic
“Robot smaller than grain of salt can ‘sense, think and act’” subtitled “With solar cells and its own propulsion system, the device is a step toward sending robots into the human body”. This seems closest to what you’re talking about. Here’s a press release for it: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/stories/penn-and-umich-create-worlds-smallest-programmable-autonomous-robots/ I’m sure this is an optimistic take on a research project but it seems fairly reasonable
(I realize now that “robotics” wasn’t really in your original statement, I guess I extrapolated that from your drone example.)
Thanks for this example. I definitely see ridiculous headlines like that from less reputable places. Do you also have examples from the type of news media I’m talking about like WSJ? For example, searching “Washington Post AI robotics” I get headlines:
“Humanoid robots were sci-fi. Suddenly they’re everywhere” about companies investing in and demoing humanoid robots, which seems to be true.
“Not ready for robots in homes? The maker of a friendly new humanoid thinks it might change your mind” about the product “Sprout” by Fauna Robotics, which seems okay unless Fauna is completely faking it
“Russia’s much-hyped humanoid robot face-plants onstage during debut” OK
“Opinion | The Chinese robots are coming” hard to assess but not particularly hyperbolic
“Robot smaller than grain of salt can ‘sense, think and act’” subtitled “With solar cells and its own propulsion system, the device is a step toward sending robots into the human body”. This seems closest to what you’re talking about. Here’s a press release for it: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/stories/penn-and-umich-create-worlds-smallest-programmable-autonomous-robots/ I’m sure this is an optimistic take on a research project but it seems fairly reasonable
(I realize now that “robotics” wasn’t really in your original statement, I guess I extrapolated that from your drone example.)