Bi-pedal on M.M Alam

On this hot summer day, I'm staring out the window - the sun pounding down on the pavement - and watching cars pass by and humans walking along

To imagine that one day, maybe 25-30 years from now, seeing bi-pedal machines walking by, while looking out the same window, will be as normal as seeing those cars - is a humbling yet exciting prospect

Todays musing are inspired by R1-Omni, a ML Model that can detect emotions

I did a superficial reading of it, but why stuff like this is exciting on some level is because we humans seem to be building operating systems to power robots and machines to operate like - humans.

Everything I see and read these days in tech, makes me more and more convinced that one of the frontiers of human technological advancement as it relates to extending human capabilities, is the desire to recreate the human itself

My belief in this is primarily since I am an optimist that the world is moving towards an abundance of wealth. We might, might not, see it in our lifetimes but we are closer than we have ever been, and the gap closes with every passing day

I say this while being accepting of the reality that there are droves of people within just 5kms of where I am, who survive on $1 a day

This will only happen when most labor is replaced by human-like machines so good at doing menial cognitive and manual work, that humans will be left to do creative, directionally aligned and managerial tasks

Intelligent machines are coming: its undeniable if you follow tech, since we are all working on building the Operating Systems that will power their synthetic cognition

And R1-Omni seems to be a step in that direction 




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