“Can Claude teach me to make coffee?” by philh

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Someone on reddit said, "Remember robots still can't go into a new house and make a coffee." And I thought I actually wonder whether, if I provided the physical actuation, current LLMs would be capable of doing this? Like, through a conversation like: Me: I'm in a house. Your job is to instruct me to make a coffee. I can take photos of my surroundings, I can follow basic directions, and if you ask me to do something too complicated I'll ask for clarification. Here is my current surroundings: (photo) LLM: Okay, we need to find the kitchen. There's a door on the right of the photo, go through that. Me: Here's where I am now: (photo) LLM: That looks like the kitchen on the left, go there. Me: It looks like this: (photo) LLM: Now we need to find either a coffee maker or a kettle. Look through the cupboards. Me: I don't know what those things look like. LLM: Then open the cupboard on the left and show me a photo. ...and so on. It wouldn't shock me either way if they can or can't do it. I think I weakly predict that the models have the [...] The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 21st, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aZYr5MBhxEbPQSt5N/can-claude-teach-me-to-make-coffee --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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