As an analogy, it is currently possible to cross the country in 6 hours.
replyThat fact does not imply that a person in Boston in the year 1850 should wait until commercial flight was available to travel to California.
So the fact that we will eventually have simpler/more efficient algorithms doesn’t tell us anything about what to do today.
>It says nothing about what you should use today to build things, it says everything about how you should do research that lasts.
replyRight! So who are you arguing with lol?
"Bitter lesson" gets pattern matched as a stock answer to anything vaguely resembling optimization/compute trends these days.
replyLike, news about internal reorgs at one company that could plausibly be done for any number of boring, bean-counting reasons.
From the article it seems more likely OpenAI just isn't prioritizing robotics anymore. Which seems to fit better than abandoning their booth at a robotics expo because "robotics = solved".
The change came recently enough that OpenAI had already registered a booth at CoRL, a top academic robotics conference in Austin, this week. Though the conference app and floor plan marked OpenAI’s spot, when Fortune visited booth #208, it sat empty with OpenAI’s logo nowhere to be seen.Everyone very usefully saying "bitter lesson lol" in the comments.
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