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Grotto-man t1_j80ro34 wrote

I'm gonna hijack this thread and ask a related question: what is currently the stumbling blocks to a helpful, intelligent and agile robot? Boston Dynamics has the agility on lock, these GPT-like programs have the understanding of human commands on lock. What's currently stopping us from combining them?

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MysteryInc152 t1_j81b73v wrote

Well robotics still has a ways to go to replicate the flexibility and maneuverability of the human body but....nothing really. They've already been combined and to promising results. See here - https://say-can.github.io/

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Grotto-man t1_j81dmky wrote

Damn, it feels like the "far future" is around the corner. All those movies i've seen of robots being helpful, I actually thought that would be way way down the line. But things seem to be progressing at a faster rate than imaginable.

Will quantum computers be helpful in this regard? If they crack that, will it speed the development of AI up or is it not that simple?

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MysteryInc152 t1_j81hoqz wrote

Here's an improved version of what I just linked. https://inner-monologue.github.io/.

Can't really speak on the quantum computers bit. Don't know how helpful they would be.

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Thebadmamajama t1_j87056q wrote

Working in a few related fields, they are already being combined to some extent. We have machine perception, where the bot can often fine objects in the world around them, and so things like pick them up and move them around. on the other end you have all these deep learning methods that can help simplify large data sets, and that helps make it easier to find things more reliably. The problem is they are all probabilistic... The machine will easily confuse objects (a dog for a loaf of bread), and then it can misjudge the world around it an unintentionally break things or hurt people.

There also practical issues, power, sensors, are all still in the early days, and largely inefficient and otherwise expensive. Most of the bots only have minutes of runtime before they need to charge again.

intelligent and helpful are tall orders given all that... combining the above is still wildly off from intelligently working side by side with a human.

I think a whole new operating system needs to be invented that sits above all this, and orchestrates things... Receiving commands without confusing intent, interacting with the world without serious mistakes, and working with objects it can reliably identified.

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