OP needs a dictionary.

>The work is still at the proof-of-concept stage. The team plans to do more basic research to understand exactly how the microrobots interact with the immune system. The next steps also include studies to validate the microrobot treatment and scaling it up before testing it in larger animals and eventually, in humans.

Cool, hopefully this leads to something good for humans down the road.

!RemindMe 10 years

The Metaverse is the answer to a question nobody’s asking. The producers of metaverses have to sell the masses on the idea of it. Clearly, they’ve failed to do that so far.

No doubt that things are moving fast; but I still think we’re able to keep up with advancements. As far as capitalism goes, yeah I don’t know what companies and governments will do when they automate enough to the point where people can’t afford to buy their products or pay taxes.

>Why do people keep saying that?

Why do people keep saying what? Be specific.

>Midjourney accelerated at a crazy pace.

…and the people by far and large can keep up with program updates.

>Coping?

lol coping about what? Again, you need to be specific.

No, at least not in my opinion. Per the sidebar: “The technological singularity, or simply the singularity, is a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence.“

We’re nowhere close to that(yes, I’ve seen GPTCHAT).

Even if you use the definition of singularity as the point where tech progresses so fast we can’t keep up, we aren’t close to that either. Tech still has to pass through the proof of concept/R&D/market research/economic feasibility bottleneck before it ever makes it into production. That bottleneck gives us plenty of time to keep up with tech.

Boyyyy wait till you hear how much pornography and strip clubs make in revenue.

Haptics are WAY behind audio/visual developments for VR. People have referenced Tesla-Suit (no relation to Elon Musk’s company), but it’s $13K and there’s no indication the haptics are even good.

The first company to create high quality haptics for hands and genitals will take in billions. But there’s very little progress in that area.

I’ll make sure to check him out, thanks for the response.

>Okay well first - that's a hard thing to quantify, who knows how close we are - this thread is about a technique that is about assembling atoms/molecules into useful products.

Right, but it’s using the prerequisite raw materials into useful products and not turning dirt/carbon into useful raw material.

>Second, that's immaterial to the original question you were asking.

If we’re going to have post scarcity, we need the ability to convert useless material into useful raw material. From my understanding, this development doesn’t solve that issue.

>I don't know how long it will take, but as you were asking how something like this could be useful, it's pretty straight forward.

It’s definitely useful as long as we have the prerequisite materials, but it is still dependent on having the scarce useful materials. So what we have so far won’t lead to post scarcity at all, just more efficient products.

Also I’m really not trying to be obtuse or anything. But from what I can tell, this isn’t solving the issue of turning useless materials into useful materials; it’s about precision printing.

But we don’t have any technology that’s remotely close to changing the atomic structure of carbon into useful products.

Shoot, I think a lot of dudes would print one.

Great, I appreciate your response.

What I’m not getting is how we go from dirt to gold. From my understanding, molecular assemblers print products at the nano level. We don’t have anything that can change the molecular structure of dirt to the molecular structure of gold. I’m not trying to be a stick in the mud either. I’m just not seeing any progress on this theoretical matter-transforming device.

>The raw materials could be made with the nanofactory after it gets the raw materials in the first place.

But that’s the issue; we still can’t make something out of thin air. That’s why I can’t understand the excitement over nano scale manufacturing

How would it enable post scarcity? If I’m understanding this theoretical tool, we would still need raw material/precursor material no?

How soon is near for you? Also theoretically if you had one, what would you print with it?

To me, AGI is just a program with the IQ of your average person. I don’t see how that will lead to a singularity.

Amen. People here need to go touch grass and stop acting like the sky is falling.

What would a molecular assembler do? Does it mean it could build anything we want?

I imagine that surgical robot use will only increase as time goes by and the products get better. I for one am happy to see it.

I’m all for advanced AI politicians.

>So, when something genuinely new comes out, you have to know from industry experience that it takes years to set up a 'new' industrial coating system, and that's just basically doing the same thing with some slightly different chemicals. People just don't understand the time it takes to build a genuinely new factory line.

I agree. I’ve said a couple of times on here that it takes a long time to go from proof of concept to mass production and have been dismissed because I’m “not thinking exponentially”.

None of the power banks are commercially available, one website is down and the other three links are kickstarter pages. There’s graphene foam running shoes for sale, so that’s at least something.

It doesn’t look like any of them are in production yet.