Everyone is piling on Transformers and Diffusion (and in robotic, humanoids) today; but for most of the history of AI, we've been making things so simple they can only mono-task, and the only way to make commercial sense of that is to be much more efficient (on one of the many axies) than humans.
Now we have models that seem (at least at first glance) to cover the full breadth of what humans can do, so the question has become: can we make them perform at a decent skill level, rather than like someone who is book-smart enough to pass the tests but has almost no real experience of anything.
Fashions in AI.
Everyone is piling on Transformers and Diffusion (and in robotic, humanoids) today; but for most of the history of AI, we've been making things so simple they can only mono-task, and the only way to make commercial sense of that is to be much more efficient (on one of the many axies) than humans.
Now we have models that seem (at least at first glance) to cover the full breadth of what humans can do, so the question has become: can we make them perform at a decent skill level, rather than like someone who is book-smart enough to pass the tests but has almost no real experience of anything.