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We can only hope the parent comment indeed knows a better source or even what he is talking about. Let give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that the shortness of his comment derives from a lack of time and not from a lack of knowledge.

We enjoyed a peaceful 'air pocket' in tech, but this is over. And it makes sense. Technology is rendering regular people useless. And when they eventually get destitute they will rebel. If I were the ruling elite I too would move fast to increase my control over the masses.

AI research is like the topic of sex during adolescence: of everyone say they are doing it, few are; and the few that are in fact doing it are probably doing it wrong.

The issue is not that these problems are easily underestimated, but that the researchers are very proficient at repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

Abstractions hide details, that does not mean they cease to exist. The problem with abstractions is that it makes it easier to create conflicts when making changes. Lots of hidden details are affected by a high level change.

What is holding back AI is this business necessity that models must perform everything. Nobody can push for a smaller model that learns a few simple tasks and then build upon that, similar to the best known intelligent machine: the human.

If these corporations had to build a car they would make the largest possible engine, because "MORE ENGINE MORE SPEED", just like they think that bigger models means bigger intelligence, but forget to add steering, or even a chassi.

Because the whole purpose of these kinds of projects at Google is to keep regulators at bay. They don't need these products in the sense of making money from them. They will just burn some money and move on, exactly the way they did hundreds of times. But what kind of company has such a free pass to burning money? The kind of company that is a monopoly. Monopolies are THAT profitable.

It is shocking that in this day and age people can burn $250M and fail to deliver a robot. Last time I checked cameras can be bought for a couple dollars and any SBC has GigaFlops of compute power.

The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky will help anyone interested in the topic of multimodality. The book covers several interesting ideas about organizing systems made up of more than one "model" or agent.

So before trying to build a flying machine we should first try to build a machine inspired by non flying birds?

Robotics is more accessible than ever. The tech is here to build almost anything you want. Dream big! We can now buy cameras for a couple dollars, microphone arrays, sensors, motors and drivers. 3D printers are everywhere, stock components also available.

Or 'manage your expectations', download ROS and build another mediocre turtle bot powered by some Nvidia Teraflop chip (if they allow you to boot their sdk), and spend a year learning "abstractions" defined by other people for other projects.