iamwil

Usual reactions:

1. Wow. this is beyond what I thought they can do. It's not there yet, but it seems like it'll be AlphaGo for all sports. (curve-orientated)

2. Wow. this is cool, but it's simply not good enough to play against professional athletes today. (utility-orientated).

Mar 16 at 6:00pmTypefully
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Usually, these two groups talk past each other. Instead, the utility-orientated people think that curve-oriented people are all hype and hucksters, and the curve-oriented people think the utility-oriented people are luddites and short-sighted.
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I wish they would recognize these are two different kinds of statements that emphasize two different aspects of the same thing. They don't contradict each other.
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Source: https://x.com/Rewkang/status/2033043512925581805
Andrew Kang (@Rewkang) on X

Researchers trained a humanoid robot to play tennis using only 5 hours of motion capture data The robot can now sustain multi-shot rallies with human players, hitting balls traveling >15 m/s with a ~90% success rate AlphaGo for every sport is coming

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