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Project GR00T by Nvidia
- singularity2001 3y agowho would've thought that WallE turns into a real world success product
- pkoird 3y agoI don't know but Skynet would probably have been a cooler name.
- T-A 3y agoAlready taken: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3254054/skynet-20-china-plans-bring-largest-surveillance-camera-network-earth-moon-protect-lunar-assets https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3254054/skyn...
- Johnny555 3y agoThe video looks like the kind of corporate promo video they show in scifi movies before the robots try to destroy humanity.
- gdsdfe 3y agoWatch how fast all these humanoid companies are going to put guns on these
- analognoise 3y agoI think you’ll be able to fuck one long before it carries a gun in a serious way. More seriously, gun toting autonomous platforms are already in use - no human form is required. Sure there is a human in the loop - for now. But even on things like our last generation of cluster munitions from 20 years ago they could select their own targets on the way down (no human in the loop after the thing was dropped).
- porkbeer 3y agoThere are at least 5 countries with stated full autonomous, no human intervention weapons, that are presumably active right now. It is widely suspected there are many more.
- tazu 3y ago> I think you’ll be able to fuck one long before it carries a gun in a serious way. I doubt it, you can already fuck torso-sized pieces of silicon, why would adding bones and verbalization add to that experience?
- zaps 3y ago> you can already fuck torso-sized pieces of silicon No way would I ever fuck silicon, no matter how desperate I was
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- blopker 3y agoI can't see human-like robots being the way forward. They will always be expensive, bulky, and creepy. No one will want one in their homes. You can't have them unattended in public (see what happened to all those kick scooters). Maybe in factories? However, the main reason to have a humanoid robot is to have it fit in places designed for humans. Factories can be designed around robots, so the human-shaped advantage isn't there. The robots we currently see in factories are only arms with tools, I don't see that changing much.
- pkoird 3y agoThis same argument could have been made in the 60's regarding computers. Don't just look at what is, also look at what could be.
- blopker 3y agoThere are some key differences here though. By definition, humanoid robots will never get smaller. They will get less expensive, but never less than something like a Roomba. I do think smarter robots will take off, but I don't think this form factor will be as important as it seems right now. Maybe just for novelty or entertainment.
- gregw2 3y agoWzyss ze
- T-A 3y ago> No one will want one in their homes. I will want one in my home when I'm old and weak to the point that the alternative is either institutionalization or letting strangers do its job.
- xpl 3y ago> They will always be expensive, bulky, and creepy. People said similar things about those early NNs generating images, code, music. Surely we will solve the fine motor skills soon. It just takes one incremental step at a time, there are no fundamental roadblocks on the way. > No one will want one in their homes. I would kill for a robot that keeps my house clean, makes my favorite food, fetches me things, etc. While I could pay a human to do that, it just seems more convenient if that wasn't a real person. Because with a real person I can't e.g. walk naked around them and behave generally weird, because I need to respect their feelings, which I don't have to do with a robot.
- haswell 3y agoThe tech nerd in me is excited about things like this. Science fiction is becoming reality at a ridiculous pace. But as a thought experiment, let's say this project or projects like it are a big success, costs come down enough to enable mass production, and within a few decades (sooner?), we have fully autonomous humanoid robots that can do useful tasks. Realistically, what's next? I try not to get too caught up in fictional apocalyptic scenarios, but given what we already know about how the assimilation of technology into society is going, I can't help but feel pretty worried. Isn't this a worrisome direction to be going? I love the potential use cases for assisting people who need assistance. But beyond this, it's hard not to feel deeply pessimistic about a wider deployment. They'll be expensive enough to be controlled by corporations, and you don't need some terminator or super-intelligence scenario for such bots to have a serious impact on society. I'm less worried about them getting out of control, and more concerned about the entities that control them.
- bugbuddy 3y agoI can assure you that this will never leave the lab. Check FSD for reference.
- mrshadowgoose 3y agoI don't feel assured in the slightest. Cherry-picking one of the poorest performing "self driving" systems is a bit disingenuous. Have you bothered to review what Waymo has accomplished? It's certainly not level 5 autonomy, but within its constrained service areas, it absolutely works. In large parts of Phoenix, you can download an app and summon a driverless Waymo vehicle.
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- layer8 3y agoThe name indicates low expectations for its linguistic skills.
- CaptainFever 3y agoI am GR00T.
- _boffin_ 3y agoI need to and will learn about this domain.
- Cheer2171 3y agoThere is a non-zero probability that this is literally going to murder someone.
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- blackoil 3y agoWhy is there so much focus on humanoids? To make them more acceptable to other humans? Otherwise a robot with 6 legs and 4 hands may be more capable
- jtriangle 3y agoBecause they're cool, and cool gets funded.
- famouswaffles 3y agoBecause most environments we want robots to help out in are built for the human form factor.
- T-A 3y agoThe environments where people work and live are designed for humans, so the humanoid form is a reasonable default choice when designing a general-purpose machine meant to operate in those environments.
- singularity2001 3y agoalso we have the most training data for this form factor, and the best intuition / empathy when debugging them although bias and wrong expectations might come as a hindrance
- MichaelMug 3y ago> Why is there so much focus on humanoids? This always irked me about sci-fi and robotics in general. It’s been demonstrated by Boston Dynamics and others that different forms are better like forms based on dogs and insects, and also no need for artificial lighting with other types of sensors available. For example, if a factory was staffed with robots it’s only illuminated for the humans and maybe cameras.
- hokkos 3y agobecause they can learn from our movements
- nateb2022 3y agoWas there a specific reason to user zero's instead of letter O's in their spelling of groot?
- st380752143 3y agoI guess it is kinda something "cool" for programers.
- nateb2022 3y agoIt could be I guess, but more practically the zero's might pose a difficulty to people trying to run related command-line programs as fonts used online or in screenshots might not differentiate well enough between zero and big-O.
- SushiHippie 3y agoIs this in any way related to figure one? Figure 01 robot demos its OpenAI integration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691886 5 days ago, 112 comments) Because the robot in the video looks very similar to the figure 01, but maybe this is just a coincidence.
- lakomen 3y agoWhen I was little, I had this... vision, idea, software that writes itself, land that is automatically farmed by machines/food that is grown by machines, and humans being able to focus on enlightenment, developing their mental capabilities, doing arts, exploring . I think when you're young you might not see the whole picture, but you're still fresh and untainted by greed and way the world works. We're already seeing software wrote software, we're kind of seeing autonomous machines and by the time I'll die we'll have machines growing our food. But the monetary crisis will need to be solved. The accumulation of wealth being the main goal of everyone will destroy us in the end. We could already feed the planet, but we aren't because of money and what it means. It means power over other people. Power to change things, power to live a comfortable life where others need to work. If we can get machines to work for us, at we won't need to subjugate other humans, which might lead to a better world. But the way there, if those with money don't want to let go of their control of other humans and additionally use machines to extend their control even further, this will be a bloody page im human history. It could go either way.
- nborwankar 3y agoIf the robots are cloud connected we are doomed the robot apocalypse could be triggered by cyber warfare. Or by malicious human owners. If they are autonomous there better be an emergency “wake word” that instantly disables the robot. In this case I suppose it would be not a wake word but a “sleep word”.