Right now it seems like its “A.I.”. Still big now are the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Recently we had COVID 19.
What’s next?
Israel and Hamas unite over a shared love of falafels. You heard it here first, folks!
I’ll just leave this here…
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Probably more forest fires and other climate problems this summer.
We can’t be far off people realizing how good robotic chef arms are and someone like Samsung making one that we start seeing in midsized kitchens, after this home adoption will be rapid and have huge benefits for diet and cost of living as well as being far more environmentally friendly than preprapared food.
It’ll probably use a trained Llama model (metas ai which is good at tasking) to translate requests and input data to a cooking model likely based on the one they always use for trackmania but I forget it’s name I think it’s Nvidias evolutionary one - it simulates the actions to evolve a solution before actuting motors - its impressively quick now even on a small processor and used in loads of stuff. The robotics is easy just a couple of continuous rotational servos and grasping mechanisms which are super common now.
I don’t know if any of the currently existing ones will get the market spot, I expect like with mp3 players It’ll come down to a big name making an easy to use but feature limited version to capture the market.
If anyone has questions happy to defend my assertion.
- forget its* name
- Nvidia’s* evolutionary one
- it’s* impressively quick
I have questions. Is this something in use today? Who is manufacturing them? Is this something you’re personally familiar with or just aware of?
I haven’t seen specifically cooking, but there have been quite a few papers about mixing task-instruction LLMs with task-execution robot arms (like they use in manufacturing) to perform simple tasks given only a plain English instruction. Eg, “pick up the red ball and place it in the blue bowl”. Very cool research but still very new.
How reliable are they, especially in edge cases? The word on the street has been that they’re still super dumb and we’re not automating blue-collar jobs like chef any time soon.
Factory robots are incredibly graceful now and sensor systems are great at combining information into models, I would say that they’re almost certainly able to act safely - they’re not going to stab anyone by mistake, but might occasionally call for help locating a carrot or odd things until those small bugs are ironed out.
I think fully multitasking robots are a way off because like self-drive there’s just so much complexity caused by small differences that accounting for it is endless, but an arm on a cooker with a prep area beside it would be restrained enough that solving the individual design issues would be manageable.
I should say I’m not imagining it to be as good as the advert, the first ones will have fairly basic ingredients and dishes they support - probably a few thousand but missing various key dishes that are a bit too awkward. I’m Also imagining it’ll cook better than me but not upto my mums best.
So I don’t think they’ll replace chef but we’re about to see a slew of task focused devices, probably in construction and similar fields. The chef focusing on the more creative and skilled elements while using them to chop, stir, make sauces or icing or whatever.
Oh, an arm on a cooker and prep area isn’t quite what I thought you were talking about. A human employee would still have to be around to feed it ingredients, clean it, and deliver the food, then, so that’s more like an increment on top of the slicing machines and automatic ovens fast food joints already have.
They’ll probably call it something more impressive sounding and oversell it but it will be kinda revolutionary.
When the trend of robots cooking from raw starts taking over the prepackaged and oven ready meals we’ll see real competition and innovation
Iodine tablets
Spaghetti strainers that also work as hats!
Well, there’s serious potential for the wars in Ukraine and Israel to spill over into their neighboring countries and spiral uncontrollably into WWIII.
So although far from guaranteed, it’s absolutely a possibility.The saying “fetch” as in
That’s SO fetch!
That sounds streets ahead!
That’s way too far-fetched!
Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen! it’s not going to happen!
Energy generation evolution I suppose. We are reaching the limit of how we generate energy. Need that Dyson Sphere for real.
Are we? There’s still plenty of space for solar and wind. Including large battery installations for cities. It doesn’t really feel like we’re hitting a limit there anytime soon.
We are not. Not yet, anyway; energy growth has been exponential historically, so it might “only” be a century.
Even if we had limitless energy, though, Earth can only radiate so much heat. I’ve seen it calculated as 400 years of growth max, generously. Before then we have to just stop growing, or leave Earth. All that to say fusion is probably the last energy tech we’ll ever need.
We can’t even make good battery for EVs…
Stationary batteries with no limit on weight or even temperature should be way easier. It just comes down to how much easier exactly. If someone finds a cheap enough chemistry that is the next big thing.
Failing that, pumped water or air energy storage is decent, if a bit more awkward to install.
While I agree that there needs to be some big growth in portable batteries like those in EVs, there are options for cities. Since they wouldn’t need to move, heavier and denser batteries become feasible. I’ve heard good things about molten salt batteries.
Right now I could buy an EV with 520km range for 36k€. It’s rapidly getting better.
Now tell me how long do you need to charge that from 0 to 100%? 🤭
You do know EV sales stall because of that, right? And the concern of battery lifespan.
You do realize most people charge at home? It doesn’t matter how long it takes when the car is just sitting there (you’ll even save time compared to driving to the gas station).
Manufacturers also give 7+ years warranty on batteries by now, but even after 10 years a battery doesn’t just break, you only lose a few percent of range (if this wasn’t already calculated into the buffer, depends on the car).
You do know EV sales stall because of that, right?
In what fantasy world are you living? EVs just hit an all-times sales record last year. This is for the US, but it’s similar all over the world:
You know people’s biggest limitation when purchasing is EV range compared to fossil fuel right?
Last year? What year is it now?
In space sciences coming up are new manned Moon missions followed hopefully by some Mars missions. Also LISA is a huge interferometer that is planned to be deployed in orbit by ESA around 2035. Different size interferometers can measure different wavelengths of gravitational waves. LIGO (the interferometer observatory already in action measuring black hole collisions) has arms 4km long and can measure wavelengths in the range of 7Khz-30hz. LISA will have arms 2.5 million km long in orbit around the sun and is expected to be able to measure much much smaller waves.
America has a real problem if something very bad happens to Biden or Trump during the elections (or shortly after).
The world has a problem when Trump is elected again. As he’s not known for keeping peace, or understanding international relations. In fact quite the opposite.
So the next big thing really is the elections.
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Notice though how certain massive events are barely registering here… Imagine a third of Americans threatened to lose their home… But that’s what’s currently happening in China through floods, and rain season still having to start. I would call that big, 120 million people isn’t nothing… In comparison, 7 million died from corona (out of 700 million confirmed cases)
So this very much depends on your perspective and where on the planet you live.
Addressing many common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, PCOS, depression, anxiety, and ADHD. All of these are metabolic diseases that were rare in human populations around the world just 50 years ago.
Contrary to what the US’s department of agriculture says (that we should eat mostly plants via the Food Pyramid/MyPlate) starting in the late '70s, it turns out that the human species has evolved over >2 million years to hunt animals. Of the three macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, and fats), we should be getting most of our calories from fats via fatty meats.
The growing popularity and success of ketogenic diets (especially the carnivore diet) in reversing many metabolic diseases once thought to be incurable and attributed to age is a sign that humans have finally rediscovered our species-appropriate diet.
If it’s not one thing, it’s another.
Hats made of poop. It’s such a winner. Get in on on the cutting edge of fashion while you can.
The most chic ones are made from your own production plus random dog poo you find locally. Plus some grass for structural strength.
If you knew what’s coming next you could be a very very rich human. This is how the world works
But to humour you, my guess is new portable energy storage systems. An increase in energy density
Yay, better hand grenades!
One can only hope it’s something that positive…
Pogs are due for a huge comeback (along with all things 1990s).
Maybe another yoyo comeback?
I’d actually be down for Billie Eilish leading the charge on grunge 2.0. We need angry rock music to criticize this shitty world.
I’m ready for a new yo-yo craze 1996-8 was the last great resurgence
We need angry rock music to criticize this shitty world.
Absolutely.
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