Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form
Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form
As companies race to pair AI with general-purpose humanoid robots, Nvidia's GR00T emerges.
I, for one...
This...isn't how the current paradigm of ai works at all. We've built glorified auto-complete bots, not something that can make a physical robot behave at a human level. Best case, they build something that can carry on a conversation long enough to excite a tech journalist and aimlessly meander like the Boston dynamic bots but without the pre-programmed tasking (assuming they don't cheat and add canned routines).
So that leaves one option: it's a moonshot project to convince the tech illiterate public to take them and their stock price to the moon long enough for a few people to make an obscene amount of money.
So that leaves one option: it's a moonshot project to convince the tech illiterate public to take them and their stock price to the moon
100% that. It's even in the name.
People vastly overestimate the capabilities of AI, but perhaps worse, people are simply unaware of the limitations. The hype took over, but it is (slowly) coming down to realistic levels.
We also could use more public knowledge of the sheer amount of data and energy it takes to train these models which still, by definition, end up with limited scope. It's actually incredibly wasteful.
Nvidia knows exactly what current AI can and can't do. They built a lot of the underlying technology to bring it within the realm of possibility.
That doesn't mean there isn't a path to actual AI or that nvidia can't play a big role in getting there. If you want to do a lot of highly parallel math, Nvidia has the expertise for that.
I feel like people who shit on AI so much live in a different reality than I do.
I'll put the big caveats here: I hate venture capital, I think people are over hyping less likely risks (creating skynet) while underplaying more likely ones (taking people's jobs, flooding the Internet with shitty content/misinformation). All AI gets stuff wrong some of the time.
That said, I've been impressed with what it can do and use it more days than not. I don't see a fundamental reason why AI wouldn't be effective at controlling a robot body. Currently something like chatGPT responds after a user types a prompt. But what if the prompt was just audio/video/sensory input every fraction of a second? I don't think this is far fetched, if you threw enough money at it.
So the line of reasoning I'm taking is that current ai is just a statistical model. It's useful for plenty of stuff, but it just doesn't do things well that don't lend themselves to a statistical approach, for instance it can kinda "luck" it's way through basic math problems because there's a lot of examples in its training set but it's fundamentaly not doing the kind of forward reasoning/chaining that is required to actually solve problems that aren't very commonly seen.
In the case of a robot body, where are they going to get the training set required to fully control it? There isn't a corpus of trillions of human movements available to scrape on the web. As mentioned in this thread, you can get certain types of a ai to play video games but that's relatively easy because the environment is simple, virtual, and reproducible. In the real world you have to account for things like sample variation between actuators, forces you didn't expect, and you don't have infinite robots if it breaks itself trying to learn a motion. Boston dynamics uses forms of ai but they're not strictly the types that are exploding right now and don't necessarily translate well.
Neural networks have learned to play video games so maybe a neural network in a robot body could learn to act human. If it didn't harm itself or others, that's the tricky part.
The real moonshot is throwing around whatever bullshit they can to keep their ridiculous stock price going up even higher.
once again, the richest people during any gold rush are shovel salesmen
Which human? This could be a really easy project if you pick the right dumbass.
Robot's first action upon becoming self-aware is to put on a leather jacket.
Your clothes, give them to me.
I’m so sick of this term unless you’re actually going to the Moon in the 60’s or curing cancer or solving climate change whenever. This is not those things.
Will it get to see it's own reflection?