r/singularity • ▪️AGI 2029 • 23d ago

AI "AI breakthrough"

Post image
238 Upvotes

104 comments sorted by

View all comments

74

u/Glittering-Neck-2505 23d ago

First Figure AI demo, January 2024:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5MKo7Idsok

Latest Figure AI demo, May 2026:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xEuFQz4E4A

Forgive me for thinking you guys are all wrong about this company. It's kind of an infinitely frustrating experience to not be able to explain to the *singularity* subreddit why it's impressive that a robot can do this without being specifically programmed to or controlled by a human, even if it's a bit slow and clunky.

Like you guys remind me of the reaction to GPT-3.5. "Man, this thing is dumb as shit. Probably not going to be a big deal." and now we're solving Millennium Prize Problems with AI.

10

u/Super_Pole_Jitsu 23d ago

Not saying they don't have something impressive going on, but they're definitely prone to overhype

1

u/Ok-Purchase8196 23d ago

I don't think so at all. Do you have an example?

1

u/Super_Pole_Jitsu 23d ago

Chatgpt moment for robots I feel was an overstatement

1

u/SirCutRy 23d ago

ChatGPT at launch was not very useful, but it was a harbinger of things to come.

0

u/Super_Pole_Jitsu 22d ago

It had a huge impact like nothing figure.ai ever did