Christian Hubicki

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #949 - Sep 16 2023 podcast

And so there's still some ways to go.

And I think everyone, to my eye, I think the people I talk to in the industry believe that too.

But they're banking that they can sort of close that gap.

So where are robots going to be?

I think first they got to be doing more things in factories.

Then we got to start seeing more reliable cars.

And if we start seeing more reliable autonomous cars, then I think we can start thinking about where are we going to see these at other places in our lives.

That's a great question, Jay.

And I think it's one of the questions I think to, to have the answer to is, is my answer is it could, it depends on the nature of the breakthrough.

And these things like large language models, people are trying to incorporate them into how robots do tasks.

There are researchers who want to take a task such as chop the carrot, use a large language model to develop the steps along the way that would chop the carrot and have the robot try to do those steps to break it down into digestible tasks.

Also, another example is stable diffusion.

And for those who don't know, that's the underlying technology behind those image generations.

Uh, uh, AI software, uh, where, you know, you would, you, you create a picture of, of a cat Pokemon on the moon doing the hokey pokey or something.

Right.

Um, people are also using those, um, methods to take different examples of robot tasks.

and stitching together the robot doing a somewhat different task.

For instance, if you wanted to spread Nutella of different viscosities, you could have a couple of example.

I actually have a friend who's working on this exact problem, spreading Nutella on bread.

And using the stable diffusion to take a couple of different examples of robot motions, just like something like Dali might take examples of images.

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