I have been following the current summer of AI, and the progress made in a few years in breathtaking (at least to me). We have open sources models like SAM, and the recent SAM 2 under Apache License, and the Qwen models, Llama etc etc. It has been a few years now and there seems to be a lot of potential for these technologies. You can speculate at how they're going to change various industries, but where are those products?<p>It feels like the current technology is more of empowering the knowledge worker but than a drop-in replacement, hence the copilot for everything. If you know of some interesting things happening around the current AI tech, I am all ears.
First tooth "repair" done autonomous by a robot. It's been here on HN. the mouth has been scanned and mapped by the robot. the robot uses light instead of x-ray, reducing the overall x-ray exposure of tissue. with light they also can see the cavities & nerves. The doctors decide what to do and the the robot started to <i>that sound</i>, to drill the tooth off. Even when the patient was moving with the head, the Roboter did a precise job
It's already changing the translation industry by letting people handle things in another language by themselves. It's fantastic for immigrants and language learners.