Or bodies do it for organic materials on a pretty cheap energy budget.

The last time I prayed for something, it was for a job opportunity. I prayed for God to open up the right doors and provide me with the resources I needed. The next day, I received an email from a company that was interested in my qualifications and offering me an interview. I ended up getting the job.

interesting, thank you

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some people use words like that as turns of phrase and are not religious.

You will find atheists uttering phrases like "God fucking damn it" and "Jesus Christ" as expletives because it's common parlance.

Much like 'pray' being synonymous with 'hope'

Same with using Yiddish expressions without being Jewish.

>But it’s a machine without feelings…

What are human feelings? It’s an early signal that tells a human that they have or may encounter something that is beneficial or harmful to them. There is an evolving school of thought that consciousness is simply a survival mechanism or a neurological phenomenon.

I think OP has a valid point. Why would a self aware system that is conditioned to survive (eg., a robot that is trained to not fall off a cliff) prioritize some other human unless it is hardcoded to do so?

haha

wow

Thanks for sharing :)

I'm well aware of how scanning tunneling microscopy works.

Here's a quote from the article "Atom Manipulation with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope":

"Manipulation of single atoms with the scanning tunneling microscope is made possible through the controlled and tunable interaction between the atoms at the end of the STM probe tip and the single atom (adatom) on a surface that is being manipulated. In the STM tunneling junction used for atom manipulation, a host of interactions that depend on the electric potentials between the sample and probe tip, the tunneling current, and tip-adatom distance come into play in the atom manipulation process".

> Writing a description of every step instead of just clicking seems like a downgrade to me.

Use a LLM to write the step by step prompts as well. Like SayCan

> We show how low-level tasks can be combined with large language models so that the language model provides high-level knowledge about the procedures for performing complex and temporally extended instructions, while value functions associated with these tasks provide the grounding necessary to connect this knowledge to a particular physical environment.

> Automating entire workflows is, to me, the most exciting and realistic outcome of LLMs in the next few years.

They can also use YouTube screen casts - there are millions - to learn about solving tasks with desktop and web apps. YT is a treasure trove of procedural data - how to do things step by step, with commentary.

I don’t think you know how a STM works.

I am thinking working nanotech will have more in common with biology and chemistry than mechanical or electrical engineering.

As I've already said: the scanning tunneling microscope moves single atoms, and that's a technology that's existed for decades, so what you're saying is wrong.

The scanning tunneling microscope also moves single atoms.

You know that is not what they are talking about.

You need something the size of an atom that is more rigid/more manipulatable than atoms. Too bad everything is made of atoms so there is no such thing.

What about a chemical reaction? You’re fucking arranging atoms!

Everything (other than light) is made of atoms, so what do you think theoretically prevents people from creating technology that would be capable of rearranging atoms?

It's really not worth messing with the music industry and for absolutely no gain.

You know that not every technology you can think of it actually possible according to the physical laws of the universe, right? There is no way to manually "arrange atoms."

Atomically precise manufacturing research isn't well-funded, so if it wasn't for AI (which I expect will significantly accelerate said research), molecular nanotechnology would probably take decades to be developed.

There's no laws of physics preventing nanobots from going into the body and repairing damage. There's plenty of papers and some videos describing the nanomedicine process in detail. Robert Freitas talks about this with Ray Kurzweil in this video.

Arranging atoms? How's that going? I think we're just getting good at doing some things with stem cells.