<div dir="ltr">Thanks man!<div>I am so confused. Folks say: pls stop with repetitive jobs a robot can do. So for a few years now people with a bunch PHDs are..trying very hard to make that a reality. Sigh I mean sure generative ai going bat crazy (hulicinating) is bad. But </div><div>As a wiseman might say:</div><div>*sigh* like hello? People want help with insanely mundane, or insanely dangerous jobs done by robots...well need the brains (models) trained and doing workouts(collecting data to [hopefully] do better)lol we probably won't get the ED-209 for a while. but man who knows: Drugs(the medicine kind!) food, better driving, blah blah. I'd be down (sometimes) for a uber with a robot taking me to a doctors---as a option. lol I mean sure getting steam power model 706 or bamboo jeep with with a a Foghorn levels of loud horn with AcMe Driver service might be more mind of MagicalReal and Drive In Mutant levels of weird cozy...but if an eccentric driver isn't available? 7 of 9 or T'pol sending over a remote controlled Uber or something? Wicked! </div><div><br></div><div>Can folks help me grok the AniAi FUD? Better. I hear them going: omg my job and meaning in life--ok that's legit. Having Scruffy artists that pose Ai? bring it on! there was a super fun DJ mix I stumbled across on Spotify that was hillarius Djent, and ragemetal core mixture of halloween and christmas stuff. (humans made it acording to spotify) </div><div>But then I switched to youtube for Ai generated white noise and ambients and found a bunch that were just cheasburgers for the ears to cook to.</div><div>And yet I read about all kinds of people going zomg RAM, GPU's my job! </div><div>Are people really that worried already? seems like it's just FOX and Friends fearmongering...but what's the friam hot take?</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 1:35\u202fPM glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Why not ask Qwen3:32b how Alibaba does it? It took your Eli5 seriously! 8^D Maybe we really want an "explain it like I'm 17"?<br>
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Imagine you have a toy robot that can draw pictures. Normally, the robot needs a big, powerful battery (like a supercomputer) to do this. But Alibaba found a way to make their robot work with a tiny battery (light hardware)<br>
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1. **Simpler Tools**: They use "smart brushes" (optimized algorithms) that draw good pictures without needing fancy, heavy tools. Think of it like using a magic pencil that works well even if it looks basic.<br>
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2. **Less Ink, Same Art**: They teach the robot to use just the right amount of "ink" (computing power). For example, if the robot only needs to color in parts of a picture, it skips the rest, saving energy.<br>
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3. **Practice Makes Perfect**: They train the robot to focus on the most important details (like edges of a cat or a tree) and ignore tiny, unimportant stuff. This makes the robot faster and less hungry for power.<br>
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4. **Special Battery**: They might have a "magic battery" (custom chips) made just for drawing, so it uses less energy than a regular battery.<br>
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So, even though drawing pictures usually needs a lot of power, Alibaba\u2019s robot is smart, efficient, and uses the right tools to do it with a tiny battery! \U0001f31f<br>
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On 1/7/26 11:46 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:<br>
> Can someone (try to) Eli5: how the heck is it that Alibabab is making (some) headway with generative images and machine vision on relatively light hardware OO - just curious.<br>
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