Shouldn't they be able to learn to use tools better than us? https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier...

Someday, maybe 100 years from now, someone is going to figure out a minimal codeset to "bootstrap" machine-learning for a wide range of devices so they basically teach themselves slowly but steadily and then each other

and at first it's going to be absolute amazing, followed by absolutely terrifying

The robots teaching themselves soccer (football) still sticks in my mind - at first they were falling over but after many iterations they had learned to pass the ball sideways and backwards to yet move it forwards to the goal

This looks like a nice application to get inductive bias into the model. But I think right now there is no solution to get fine grained motor skills besides tele operating and doing behavior cloning. And even then it is far from perfect..

But can a robot learn to drink 3 beers before lunch?

This is huge. There's been so little progress on manipulation over the years. The 1960s Stanford AI lab videos don't look much worse than current work.

Part of the trick here seems to be using Gaussian splatting as an intermediate form for vision data. That's a new idea. Gaussian splatting is a brute-force process that doesn't try to generate a full 3D model reconstruction or object recognition. It can be applied to any visual scene where at least two viewpoints are available.

This just might get robotic manipulation unstuck. Good target for VC funding.