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The ability to translate between text to servo movement is unreal, and it looks like gpt4 vision + whisper are heavily used. They're also using the term "reasoning" which is... new.

Can you call this an AI wrapper company? Kinda! The medium is a little different than an app, of course.

Lots of amazing applications of AI even if frontier AI development froze today.

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> text to servo movement

yeah this was super impressive. If this is at the point where you can put an arbitrary object in front of it and ask it to move it somewhere, that's going to be huge for industrial automation type stuff I'd imagine.

I do wonder how much of that demo was pre-baked/trained though. Could they repeat the same thing with a banana? What if the table was more cluttered? What if there were two people in the frame?

Great question.

Boston Dynamics has been demoing the pre-baked dance routine for 2+ decades at this point. Really hoping we can evolve past it.

Not true. Boston Dynamics has been demoing long and complicated single take videos involving walking, running, jumping and manipulation, in less than ideal conditions.

Knowing as many people in the robotics space as I do, I suspect the demo may not be completely "pre-baked" but it is almost certaintly highly selected. Often they'll try the demo many many times until they get a clean run-through without mistakes. The circumstances are also likely pretty idealized, like they pick objects and settings that they know it performs well in.

Interesting! This would sort of explain the low energy of the human demonstrator in the video

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