Robots receive major intelligence boost thanks to Google DeepMind's 'thinking AI' — a pair of models that help machines understand the world
https://www.livescience.com/technology/robotics/robots-receive-major-intelligence-boost-thanks-to-google-deepminds-thinking-ai-a-pair-of-models-that-help-machines-understand-the-world
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Robotics is increasingly interconnected with AI. Industrial robots have been around for decades but they have required very task specific instructions and tied to very limited systems.This limited their use to very repetitive assembly line operations abd palletizing. The robots had to work with know parts, have a pre-programmed path, and no flexibility to deal with situations outside those pre-programmed limits. Adding AI removes those restrictions and will allow robots to be easily introduced into entire industrial.and commercial sectors that were previously off limits due to programming costs
The reason why robotics stalled for SO LONG was due to AI being a bottleneck on progress
Every little routine had to be programmed, and every edge case manually studied, this is literally impossible to scale beyond simple aids to industrial processes, this was never going to lead to mass unemployment at that rate
Thankfully, AI (which some people think it’s just LLMs) is lifting this limitation and is the reason why robotics has advanced so much after such a long stagnation, and they should soon be able to do very basic jobs, and eventually, the more complex ones too
We’re going to need universal basic income very soon. CEOs love the idea of slashing jobs, but who exactly is going to be consuming their products if only the top 5-10% have $? I love technological advancement but had to decouple it from the real world impacts in a capitalistic society.
I wonder what happens when a physical robot starts hallucinating.
nVidia has this “simulated universe” where they train AI’s to solve simple real world tasks that leads to them being able to just import the model into a robot and the robot instantly knows how to do said things.
This is far from news, other than the fact that now Google is also doing it.