Geoff Brumfiel

And this is a complicated task. It's got to pull these clothes out. It's got to figure out what they are.

And this is a complicated task. It's got to pull these clothes out. It's got to figure out what they are.

And this is a complicated task. It's got to pull these clothes out. It's got to figure out what they are.

Yeah. I mean, right. It looks cool on the video. The truth is that, you know, when you get out and these robots are trying to do these tasks over and over again, they get confused, they misunderstand, they make mistakes and they just get stuck.

Yeah. I mean, right. It looks cool on the video. The truth is that, you know, when you get out and these robots are trying to do these tasks over and over again, they get confused, they misunderstand, they make mistakes and they just get stuck.

Yeah. I mean, right. It looks cool on the video. The truth is that, you know, when you get out and these robots are trying to do these tasks over and over again, they get confused, they misunderstand, they make mistakes and they just get stuck.

So, you know, it might be able to fold laundry 90 percent of the time or 75 percent of the time, but the rest of the time it's going to make a big mess that then a human has to get in there and clean up.

So, you know, it might be able to fold laundry 90 percent of the time or 75 percent of the time, but the rest of the time it's going to make a big mess that then a human has to get in there and clean up.

So, you know, it might be able to fold laundry 90 percent of the time or 75 percent of the time, but the rest of the time it's going to make a big mess that then a human has to get in there and clean up.

I spoke to Ken Goldberg, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and he is pretty emphatic that AI powered robots weren't here yet.

I spoke to Ken Goldberg, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and he is pretty emphatic that AI powered robots weren't here yet.

I spoke to Ken Goldberg, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and he is pretty emphatic that AI powered robots weren't here yet.

Okay, so it's true that AI has improved massively over the past couple years, but that's because chatbots have a huge amount of data to learn from. They've taken basically the entire internet to train themselves how to write sentences and draw pictures.

Okay, so it's true that AI has improved massively over the past couple years, but that's because chatbots have a huge amount of data to learn from. They've taken basically the entire internet to train themselves how to write sentences and draw pictures.

Okay, so it's true that AI has improved massively over the past couple years, but that's because chatbots have a huge amount of data to learn from. They've taken basically the entire internet to train themselves how to write sentences and draw pictures.

And if robots really need as much training data as their virtual chatbot friends, then having humans teach them one task at a time is going to take a really long time.

And if robots really need as much training data as their virtual chatbot friends, then having humans teach them one task at a time is going to take a really long time.

And if robots really need as much training data as their virtual chatbot friends, then having humans teach them one task at a time is going to take a really long time.

Yeah. Well, scientists are exploring them right now. And one might be to let the AI brain of the robot learn in a simulation. A researcher who's trying this is a guy named Pulkit Agrawal. He's at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Yeah. Well, scientists are exploring them right now. And one might be to let the AI brain of the robot learn in a simulation. A researcher who's trying this is a guy named Pulkit Agrawal. He's at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.