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Inside Google's 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body
As the head of Alphabet's AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can't come soon enough. For another, they shouldn't look like us.
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... It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet's secret innovation lab. My job: help figure out what to do with the employees and technology left over from nine robot companies that Google had acquired. People were confused. Andy "the father of Android" Rubin, who had previously been in charge, had suddenly left. Larry Page and Sergey Brin kept trying to offer guidance and direction during occasional flybys in their "spare time." Astro Teller, the head of Google X, had agreed a few months earlier to bring all the robot people into the lab, affectionately referred to as the moonshot factory. ...
Larry Page and Sergey Brin kept trying to offer guidance and direction during occasional flybys in their "spare time." Astro Teller, the head of Google X, had agreed a few months earlier to bring all the robot people into the lab, affectionately referred to as the moonshot factory. ...
An engrossing article, imo.
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-16 12:10 AM | Reply
Robots don't need much AI they need to be able to empty a dishwasher not compose a song.
That's my thing.
#2 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-16 07:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
#2 | Posted by Tor
The easiest job for AI to do is ripping off artists, because there's no wrong answer.
Doing anything reliably THE RIGHT WAY is beyond its ability.
#3 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-16 07:55 PM | Reply
I will settle for the Chorebot 2000... Just give me a robot to do the dishes, do the wash and the folding, and to mow the lawn.
Creativity, that is my business and duty. Only hacks use A.I. to 'Cliff Notes' and shortcut the creative process. It is not a genuine human creation anymore then, but an amalgam.
Take the chores and the busy work away, and leave me with more time to create...
#4 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-09-18 06:59 AM | Reply
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