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
(no really, this is not a joke answer, it has some great philosophy among the entertainment)
In my corner of the world the accepted form is a 100ml bottle of vodka, so hopefully it's flexible in this regard.
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.
The Google robot applying a timing belt presented earlier this year looks much more natural, imho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAFiuEP7iE (albeit still pretty robotic)
neom•5mo ago
pixl97•5mo ago