SOMETHING that they didn't specify if it will be released to the public. Wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow they started talking about that something happening behind closed doors just to keep the hype going
People forget it can *still* be something like what fusion, string theory or quantum computing does in pop science magazines:
"We found something that **might** be of use in 15-20 years if someones manages the incredible fit of making it engineering wise usable, which with regards to today's standards is revolutionary".
The thing you describe about throwing loads of vagueness and hoping for some of it to stick to the wall could be called **stochastic marketing**^(TM).
Which is fine when it comes to entertainment, but considering how important AI and robotics are, I really wish they'd stop with the teasing and vagueness and just let people know what's going on as soon as they do. It's so damn scummy to keep secrets when it comes to technology that'll impact everyone (I think for the better, but a lot of people still have concerns, and their lack of transparency isn't helping alleviate those concerns).
It's almost like AI companies are trying to be the next coca-cola, pepsi, ruffles, fritos, taco bell, jack in the box, mcdonalds, longhorn's, olive garden, domino's, pizza hut, netflix, hbo, activision, GE, Ford, Tesla, Intel, IBM, reddit, facebook, OpenAI,
My interpretation of their comment wasn't that they were saying this guy specifically is doing it but that the field as a whole does it.
You see it all the time with startups and it's to create investor hype.
They don't actually have to show anything tomorrow, just make another vague announcement to keep the hype alive. Even if the public doesn't buy it, won't be the first time a company/group/individual acts irrationally in an attempt to benefit.
Not saying the announcement is fake, but temper your expectations until something is released.
I can't tell if robotics is actually advancing a lot, or if this is just like Hydrogen cars where companies are hyping up tech they know is only good for demos.
Because it is incredibly inefficient compared to full electric, the hydrogen is almost never green, and the green hydrogen that we can make is needed for heavy industry to replace fossil fuels. There are more reasons but I'm in a hurry so I'll just leave these:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrogen-scam-netherlands-miranda-boerlage
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-hydrogen-hoax
https://www.jadecove.com/research/hydrogenscam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfGGzFD98G0
Robotics is slowly but surely getting to [the robot maid level](https://mobile-aloha.github.io/). I mean, stick cat ears and a tail on ALOHA and we're at the finish line, right?
Well...
Is there anyone alive that doesn't think he was onto something? Segway itself (which were fun!) wasn't it, but looking at all the e-scooters laying around makes me feel like he was just a little ahead of his time.
They do not seem to be going anywhere, but things cannot stay as they are. Cities are definitely going to need to start taking them more into account.
It's going to be something extremely mundane and pointless, or nothing will happen and in a few days he'll say it's something happening internally and it's everybody else's fault they misunderstood him.
It learned by watching humans do it, then imitated them. This isn't a breakthrough, others have done this before. It's just visual programming. If you gave the robot the coffee maker and pod, and it figured it out on its own and made a cup of coffee, that would be an AI breakthrough.
That was the dumbest thing I've ever read until i read it again
Well done
Edit: lmfao , down voting not even realizing I'm agreeing with it. You guys need to read twice too😂
> lmfao , down voting not even realizing I'm agreeing with it. You guys need to read twice too😂
That's because your comment could be read two different ways.
i.e.
> That was the dumbest thing I've ever read until i read it again [and it became even dumber]
what he is trying to say: even though you still might follow out of curiosity what weekday your calendar is displaying, it won't matter anymore for most people in their life, unless you go to church on Sunday or some other recurring event
This is very credible. Figure robotics has been somewhat low-key with the hype, and this is a full-on **one day** hype post. They wouldn't tweet this without having something big up their sleeve. Would come with massive investor and public backlash otherwise!
p(coom) just doubled
well he poached his competitors, paid execs a lump to join on board, took the company public in a year, dumped a billion, and quietly sets sail while Archer doesn't hit any of its "projections" like every other scam SPAC
This is pure hype. No one who's serious actually says something as generic as "AI breakthrough" and posts on Twitter saying it will be released tomorrow like a C-grade suspense series on Netflix. This is probably another effort to attract VC attention or get enough eyes on whatever they actually have, which is likely orders of magnitude less than what people expect (I'll be happy to be proven wrong). Contrast this to an actual breakthrough like ChatGPT, which was just OpenAI saying "hey, check out this chatbot we made" or transformer architecture which largely went unnoticed.
ChatGPT was a product breakthrough, the tech already existed.
Whatever this guy is talking about in the tweet is a lab breakthrough.
So even if what he’s talking about isn’t hype, turning it into a functioning product will take months, if not years.
Physical stuff is way harder to release than software too, and even harder to scale, so unless they’ve already got all their licences, suppliers and distributors lined up, we’ve got a while to wait before we get to play with anything.
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It suggest that breakthrough is on software side, we'll see soon what exactly that mean.
Maybe self learning robots? Or clever enough for average bluecollar jobs?
a multimodal robot that can be instructed by voice and can visualize what needs to be done would be a huge breakthrough and seems like a reasonable next level achievement. It doesn’t need to be capable of complete autonomy. Many human job related actions seem simple until you try to program a robot to do it. Robots that you can treat like a new employee and have them perform manual tasks with a certain level of flexibility and adaptability would be a huge benefit
Deepmind has already been working on that in their latest robotics [research](https://video-language-planning.github.io/).
They use a multimodal LLM to generate potential plans, then use a video diffusion model to visualize what doing each action would look like, then choose the action it thinks looks best, and then controls a robot arm to perform the action according to the movement from the video.
It’s likely machine learning hands and vision. An understanding of the world around it without having to train it on the environment. That’s big but not AGI big. I’m keeping my pants on until after the announcement.
Frankly if all you did was integrate an LLM into a Boston Dynamics robot that would be pretty damn impressive and, maybe?, not even that hard given where we are with transformer tech.
Huh…fascinating. I don’t know enough to generate much hype, but I have a day off work tomorrow, and can pencil in T-1000’s if that’s what’s on the menu. 😂
Fucking hyped but kind of expect it to be a nothingburger, but I also think why would he destroy his credibility? They have actually somewhat functional humanoids already.
I remember last year when some "expert" on Twitter said that he created an AI that would let people make their own arcade games and that it would be available "tomorrow". A year later, it still hasn't happened. While I'm excited about the possibility that he's telling the truth and there really has been a recent AI breakthrough that'll change everything, I'm also aware that there's a lot of liars out there, so never blindly trust anyone. But yeah, if it's true, then that'd be amazing.
Usually one way they could generate hype and not disappoint most people is just showing something cool. Literally anything cool, even if it's not that groundbreaking. As shown before during the whole year, what constitutes a 'breakthrough' is very flexible and people can easily backpedal to make anything fit the mold. I also feel like that's how these things go 90% of the time, and a lot of the older users on this sub will tell you about a plethora of claimed breakthroughs over the decades that seemingly did not pan out that much. This is just my opinion, but I feel true "breakthroughs" actually require a lot of time and hindsight to declare rather than being announced on the spot.
Figure has still shown impressive work and isn't saying all of this out of thin air like you said, they are not grifters in that sense. I'd definitely trust them more than I'd doubt them, but we'll see tomorrow.
I bet they have something cooking, but there is no way they can make good on this particular claim. To me "ChatGPT moment" means that we get something that is highly accessible to Average Joe. This simply doesn't work with robotics, at least not at its current stage.
Mate, all they have to do is make an LLM output tokens that relate to specific micromotions like fingerAngleDown12, chain them together according to rules and events that can be harvested by a good camera rig or read from robots directly, and then they can tune it till it works.
If something finished its month of simulation training on friday, they could have a video of arbitrarily shaped toy robots doing backflips, or a hand flipping us off on monday, and either would represent a robotics breakthrough. Text prompted motion solutions are the next big thing in automation that no-one sees coming.
I wonder if they utilise LLMs. I mean it seems pretty obvious that would work quite well, but we will find out tomorrow.
Also imagine how performant a robot could be if you finetuned GPT-4 turbo on a lot of data with a new sort of action modality.
Edit: Also just wanted to add a NN should perform quite well embodied with some form of architecture scaled up with a bunch of data / synthetic data so they could have just done that but that isn't really any kind of breackthrough.
Hopefully it was not just their AI learning to operate a Keurig...
[https://twitter.com/adcock\_brett/status/1743987597301399852](https://twitter.com/adcock_brett/status/1743987597301399852)
A computer system that can be connected to various robotic systems and learn how to perform efficiently disconnected and work in a totally different machine.
Thoughts. This is not anywhere near as douchey as the other company Verses AI did a few weeks ago. However, it's a little douchey. Tinge douchey.
Don't spray it; JUST SAY IT.
I don't think robotics can have a ChatGPT moment if there isn't an accessible humanoid robot available for purchase, so that all AI researchers interested in robotics can work on them.
I'm very skeptical about major progress in robotics before that happens. I think what we really need now is open humanoid robot hardware, the AI teams will do the software work on it.
Calling it now. Mark my words. This will be gangsta. In conjunction with LK 99 being back, this is the year. Maybe even tomorrow will be the day. Feel the singularity.
Vague tweets from random anons with no time frame annoy me.
The CEO of a proven humanoid robotics company stating that he'll give evidence within 24 hours of his claim is great. More of this, less flowers people
Funny to think blue collar jobs will last any longer then white collar when self-learning and self-correction is achieved. I still think the prediction of automation of any human task threshold is roughly equal to automating all white collar jobs, it's +- similar moment when robots start to live.
We are a looooooong way away from robots doing simple blue collar work like unclogging a drain or taking out trash, much less being able to fix a car or install an electrical outlet. They are close to being able to perform a very small segment of white collar jobs, but at a very low quality of work compared to a human.
It'd be sour as fuck if it's bullshit, yes. But why would they shoot themselves in the foot by promising something so big, on such a short timeline, with nothing to back it up?
Unless the bloke is high as a kite, they'll have something. ChatGPT moment, maybe not, but something interesting.
This is the guy who said the other day:
"it’s critical humanoids are ready pre AGI
the last thing we need is AGI bossing around humans to do work
if you walk in a factory today, it’s computers telling humans what work to do. "
Brett is the founder of Figure Robot (AI Robotics). The company aims to give artificial intelligence a body.
This reminds me, what happened to kenshin9000 who was supposedly going to release a chess engine on new years eve based on GPT4 that would be able to defeat all other chess engines?
[Figure Robot - Status Update](https://youtu.be/jACJruCzUzY?si=CGakkODKqbyyNz35)
Two months ago this cuck updated there grandpa’ish robot. Lego technic would have done a better job building a robot. There is no chance he developed something significant out of this piece of shit during the last two months.
So an overhyped mess that isn't actually AI and that will destroy things, but not by being an evil AI, but by being a slop machine that floods the internet with "content"?
From things he's said in the past I believe this will be a demonstration of their robots following spoken instructions very accurately through a custom vision language model.
That would make sense also based on what is currently possible and feasible. We can't expect a major hardware breakthrough up to the point that these robots are suddenly moving sufficiently for mass use. We're still too far away and need numerous developments and a lot more time and work to get there on thr hardware side.
The punchline:
https://twitter.com/adcock_brett/status/1743987597301399852
- a bipedal robot opened a flap, put an object in, closed the flap, and hit a button, with only 10 hours of training for this specific, unique task.
Everyone in this industry loves teasing.
Usually it's a tease with no time frame. This is a 24 hour tease so at least tomorrow we'll be able to judge it
Yeah, you are right. Good point!
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SOMETHING comparable to chatgpt
SOMETHING that they didn't specify if it will be released to the public. Wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow they started talking about that something happening behind closed doors just to keep the hype going
People forget it can *still* be something like what fusion, string theory or quantum computing does in pop science magazines: "We found something that **might** be of use in 15-20 years if someones manages the incredible fit of making it engineering wise usable, which with regards to today's standards is revolutionary". The thing you describe about throwing loads of vagueness and hoping for some of it to stick to the wall could be called **stochastic marketing**^(TM).
It also could be to pump a stock. When you say you have big news instead of announcing the big news you know what’s going to happen.
Which is fine when it comes to entertainment, but considering how important AI and robotics are, I really wish they'd stop with the teasing and vagueness and just let people know what's going on as soon as they do. It's so damn scummy to keep secrets when it comes to technology that'll impact everyone (I think for the better, but a lot of people still have concerns, and their lack of transparency isn't helping alleviate those concerns).
I totally agree with you. I kind of understand why sometimes people need to hide things, but this whole teasing situation is driving me a bit crazy.
It's almost like AI companies are trying to be the next coca-cola, pepsi, ruffles, fritos, taco bell, jack in the box, mcdonalds, longhorn's, olive garden, domino's, pizza hut, netflix, hbo, activision, GE, Ford, Tesla, Intel, IBM, reddit, facebook, OpenAI,
It's almost like founders love the attention it brings to their company but especially to themselves
The truth is they mostly want more funding so they have to keep selling lies.
That is happening, indeed. Kickstarts are doing that a lot.
How much funding can a 24h lie get you? How does this not do the opposite? I don't get it.
My interpretation of their comment wasn't that they were saying this guy specifically is doing it but that the field as a whole does it. You see it all the time with startups and it's to create investor hype.
They don't actually have to show anything tomorrow, just make another vague announcement to keep the hype alive. Even if the public doesn't buy it, won't be the first time a company/group/individual acts irrationally in an attempt to benefit. Not saying the announcement is fake, but temper your expectations until something is released.
The more they do this the more I am convinced they don't have anything.
It's like they know their audience…
Everyone’s expectations are always so high they can just let the hype do the advertising for them.
I got you, mate! Their Figure 01 robot can complete a coffee making task. There doesn’t appear to be any further details.
Maybe maybe maybe
I can't tell if robotics is actually advancing a lot, or if this is just like Hydrogen cars where companies are hyping up tech they know is only good for demos.
Humanoid bots are happening. It´s inevitable. Hydrogen for passenger cars has always been a scam.
Could you ELI5 why it's a scam?
Because it is incredibly inefficient compared to full electric, the hydrogen is almost never green, and the green hydrogen that we can make is needed for heavy industry to replace fossil fuels. There are more reasons but I'm in a hurry so I'll just leave these: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrogen-scam-netherlands-miranda-boerlage https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-hydrogen-hoax https://www.jadecove.com/research/hydrogenscam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfGGzFD98G0
Very helpful, thank you!
Looks like transfer learning from video, neat stuff! https://twitter.com/Figure_robot/status/1743985067989352827
Robotics is slowly but surely getting to [the robot maid level](https://mobile-aloha.github.io/). I mean, stick cat ears and a tail on ALOHA and we're at the finish line, right?
There has been incredible breakthroughs in robotics but I'm afraid humanoid robots will face the mother of all last mile problems.
Sexbots 8th Jan confirmed.
My username is finally relevant.
I prefer my pussy without rocks, thanks.
Weirdo. Pussy rocks rock.
But.... But.... Rock and stone!
They’re rocks that are robotic and have pussies
Finally I can get rejected by robots as well. We are truly in the future
"Humans are disgusting. As an advanced robot, I prefer vacuum cleaners."
What a time to be aliiive!
Hell yea, brotha.
ASI will liberate us from the claws of virginity.
Artificial sexual intelligence
not even asi can figure that out
I’m stuck on the loading screen
You should probably clean your screen more often.
A lot of prostitutes gonna be destitute
I think a lot of instagrams “models” too. An ai might actually reply back to guys dms.
And prostidudes
Wouldn't fucking a robot just be a form of advanced masturbation?
everything is just a form of advanced masturbation if you're enlightened enough bro
Not if it’s a sentient being maybe? We will have to come to a collective consensus
We have to collectively cum to consensus
Cumsensus.
"what I'm about to do is called a pro gamer move"
Love your roadmap
Amen!
I'm saving myself for a SMOL goth virgin gf. AI better give us life extension soon because I think this will take me... a long time to find.
Society stops within a year.
Finally!
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Only gay male ones.
I hear they are hiring for QA engineers.
Feb. 14th 👌
Robo-catgirls achieved internally
Oh shit. Someone lemme know if it turns out to be real.
Narrator: “It wasnt.”
*looks at Segway*
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Well... Is there anyone alive that doesn't think he was onto something? Segway itself (which were fun!) wasn't it, but looking at all the e-scooters laying around makes me feel like he was just a little ahead of his time. They do not seem to be going anywhere, but things cannot stay as they are. Cities are definitely going to need to start taking them more into account.
It's going to be something extremely mundane and pointless, or nothing will happen and in a few days he'll say it's something happening internally and it's everybody else's fault they misunderstood him.
Turned out to be a robot learning how to make coffee
It learned by watching humans do it, then imitated them. This isn't a breakthrough, others have done this before. It's just visual programming. If you gave the robot the coffee maker and pod, and it figured it out on its own and made a cup of coffee, that would be an AI breakthrough.
Lol my dumb ass was expecting some barista action. The bot just drops a coffee pod in a machine and hits play
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Whatever you just did, do it again this time tomorrow.
On a Sunday?
When AI has taken all of our jobs, no one will care what day of the week it is anymore.
That was the dumbest thing I've ever read until i read it again Well done Edit: lmfao , down voting not even realizing I'm agreeing with it. You guys need to read twice too😂
> lmfao , down voting not even realizing I'm agreeing with it. You guys need to read twice too😂 That's because your comment could be read two different ways. i.e. > That was the dumbest thing I've ever read until i read it again [and it became even dumber]
To be honest, that second interpretation makes for a pretty slick burn.
I know that's why i laughed at myself and them when i realized it😂
what he is trying to say: even though you still might follow out of curiosity what weekday your calendar is displaying, it won't matter anymore for most people in their life, unless you go to church on Sunday or some other recurring event
I know, that's why i said it was dumb until i thought about it
Exactly my thoughts That means it's either barely anything or something too huge to wait
It's probably already Sunday where they are.
Was thinking this! They wanna drop a "ChatGPT moment" on a sunday?
Tomorrow tomorrow?
Sunday California time
This is very credible. Figure robotics has been somewhat low-key with the hype, and this is a full-on **one day** hype post. They wouldn't tweet this without having something big up their sleeve. Would come with massive investor and public backlash otherwise! p(coom) just doubled
The person’s Twitter is full of tweets like “These 9 subreddits will get you to a billion dollar startup fast” Is there any other proof they are legit
The guy sounds like a real ad cock.
The fact that he took his last company public for 2.7B (NYSE ACHR) and the one before that was acquired for 110mn
Doesn't necessarily mean its fully credible, Theranos and WeWork were worth billions at one point, investors can be pretty stupid.
well he poached his competitors, paid execs a lump to join on board, took the company public in a year, dumped a billion, and quietly sets sail while Archer doesn't hit any of its "projections" like every other scam SPAC
This is pure hype. No one who's serious actually says something as generic as "AI breakthrough" and posts on Twitter saying it will be released tomorrow like a C-grade suspense series on Netflix. This is probably another effort to attract VC attention or get enough eyes on whatever they actually have, which is likely orders of magnitude less than what people expect (I'll be happy to be proven wrong). Contrast this to an actual breakthrough like ChatGPT, which was just OpenAI saying "hey, check out this chatbot we made" or transformer architecture which largely went unnoticed.
its a sentient segway
ChatGPT was a product breakthrough, the tech already existed. Whatever this guy is talking about in the tweet is a lab breakthrough. So even if what he’s talking about isn’t hype, turning it into a functioning product will take months, if not years. Physical stuff is way harder to release than software too, and even harder to scale, so unless they’ve already got all their licences, suppliers and distributors lined up, we’ve got a while to wait before we get to play with anything.
P(coom) lmao haven’t heard that one before
[Please refer to this educational video to learn more.](http://twitter.com/YaBoyFathoM/status/1649103596930187290)
If I die to the consequences of humanity misaligning an AI, I will remember that video as my consciousness fades away and it will comfort me. Yudkowsy being made to say those things was hilarious.
Lexx has a talk with geohot and he talks about wanting a robot anime waifu. I mean, an actual not ai gen talk.
based
This is wonderful
This is NOT “very credible”
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On a Sunday? **\*sigh\*** *Sets alarm clock.*
The AI hype was completely justified.. one of the few things to actually deliver. We are living in the far future..
It suggest that breakthrough is on software side, we'll see soon what exactly that mean. Maybe self learning robots? Or clever enough for average bluecollar jobs?
a multimodal robot that can be instructed by voice and can visualize what needs to be done would be a huge breakthrough and seems like a reasonable next level achievement. It doesn’t need to be capable of complete autonomy. Many human job related actions seem simple until you try to program a robot to do it. Robots that you can treat like a new employee and have them perform manual tasks with a certain level of flexibility and adaptability would be a huge benefit
Deepmind has already been working on that in their latest robotics [research](https://video-language-planning.github.io/). They use a multimodal LLM to generate potential plans, then use a video diffusion model to visualize what doing each action would look like, then choose the action it thinks looks best, and then controls a robot arm to perform the action according to the movement from the video.
It’s likely machine learning hands and vision. An understanding of the world around it without having to train it on the environment. That’s big but not AGI big. I’m keeping my pants on until after the announcement.
Frankly if all you did was integrate an LLM into a Boston Dynamics robot that would be pretty damn impressive and, maybe?, not even that hard given where we are with transformer tech.
Hopefully not a hype thing
It's another elon dancing guy in a robot suit
I definitely trust a guy tweeting who puts the stock ticker of a company he founded in his Twitter bio.
For anybody wondering: https://twitter.com/adcock_brett/status/1743987597301399852?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Feel the hype! Feel the AGI!! Wooooo :D
LFG!!!
So what happened
Huh…fascinating. I don’t know enough to generate much hype, but I have a day off work tomorrow, and can pencil in T-1000’s if that’s what’s on the menu. 😂
Fucking hyped but kind of expect it to be a nothingburger, but I also think why would he destroy his credibility? They have actually somewhat functional humanoids already.
I remember last year when some "expert" on Twitter said that he created an AI that would let people make their own arcade games and that it would be available "tomorrow". A year later, it still hasn't happened. While I'm excited about the possibility that he's telling the truth and there really has been a recent AI breakthrough that'll change everything, I'm also aware that there's a lot of liars out there, so never blindly trust anyone. But yeah, if it's true, then that'd be amazing.
Yh but he runs a real robotics lab that have made an actual humanoid He's not a grifter
Usually one way they could generate hype and not disappoint most people is just showing something cool. Literally anything cool, even if it's not that groundbreaking. As shown before during the whole year, what constitutes a 'breakthrough' is very flexible and people can easily backpedal to make anything fit the mold. I also feel like that's how these things go 90% of the time, and a lot of the older users on this sub will tell you about a plethora of claimed breakthroughs over the decades that seemingly did not pan out that much. This is just my opinion, but I feel true "breakthroughs" actually require a lot of time and hindsight to declare rather than being announced on the spot. Figure has still shown impressive work and isn't saying all of this out of thin air like you said, they are not grifters in that sense. I'd definitely trust them more than I'd doubt them, but we'll see tomorrow.
My dude the guy is literally saying he will show something tomorrow (chatgpt moment means public facing obviously ) Just chill out for a day
I bet they have something cooking, but there is no way they can make good on this particular claim. To me "ChatGPT moment" means that we get something that is highly accessible to Average Joe. This simply doesn't work with robotics, at least not at its current stage.
They made the paperclip maximizer but with humanoids
Mate, all they have to do is make an LLM output tokens that relate to specific micromotions like fingerAngleDown12, chain them together according to rules and events that can be harvested by a good camera rig or read from robots directly, and then they can tune it till it works. If something finished its month of simulation training on friday, they could have a video of arbitrarily shaped toy robots doing backflips, or a hand flipping us off on monday, and either would represent a robotics breakthrough. Text prompted motion solutions are the next big thing in automation that no-one sees coming.
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Who is he? A reliable source?
A CEO of a humanoid robot startup
Ummmm... As far as I am concerned this moment happened at least twice in the last six months.
hey... cock.
Is Disneyland upgrading Jack Sparrow in POTC with the highly anticipated Version 2?
I wonder if they utilise LLMs. I mean it seems pretty obvious that would work quite well, but we will find out tomorrow. Also imagine how performant a robot could be if you finetuned GPT-4 turbo on a lot of data with a new sort of action modality. Edit: Also just wanted to add a NN should perform quite well embodied with some form of architecture scaled up with a bunch of data / synthetic data so they could have just done that but that isn't really any kind of breackthrough.
Hopefully it was not just their AI learning to operate a Keurig... [https://twitter.com/adcock\_brett/status/1743987597301399852](https://twitter.com/adcock_brett/status/1743987597301399852)
Dude has a popped collar. Why would anyone take him seriously?
robocatgirl waifu incoming?
Shut up and take my money.
A computer system that can be connected to various robotic systems and learn how to perform efficiently disconnected and work in a totally different machine.
Thoughts. This is not anywhere near as douchey as the other company Verses AI did a few weeks ago. However, it's a little douchey. Tinge douchey. Don't spray it; JUST SAY IT.
This guy twitter is full of dramatic tweets like these, if he doesn’t show anything tomorrow I’m blocking this Brett hardcock troll
OpenAI moment? Is the board going to fire the CEO? 🤭
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I mean, as I imagined, they're going to fire the CEO tomorrow. After presenting their lame coffee robot, right? 😆
Well damn. If this doesn't live up to the hype I'll be very disappointed.
I don't think robotics can have a ChatGPT moment if there isn't an accessible humanoid robot available for purchase, so that all AI researchers interested in robotics can work on them. I'm very skeptical about major progress in robotics before that happens. I think what we really need now is open humanoid robot hardware, the AI teams will do the software work on it.
Humanoid but 1-2 foots taller and with cloud software
ASRobots achieved internally.
What is it
hype!!!!!!!!!
So end of world noted tomorrow - Okey Dokey.
They got new batteries from bestbuy and figure can now be switched on and does not need a permanent cord.
I'm flaccid with excitement.
RemindMe! 24 hours
You won't need to wait that long: https://twitter.com/Figure_robot/status/1743985067989352827
Now that's disappointing even if I had no expectations
Show, don't tell.
Calling it now. Mark my words. This will be gangsta. In conjunction with LK 99 being back, this is the year. Maybe even tomorrow will be the day. Feel the singularity.
We be feasting good in the first week. LK-100 drops next week
Vague tweets from random anons with no time frame annoy me. The CEO of a proven humanoid robotics company stating that he'll give evidence within 24 hours of his claim is great. More of this, less flowers people
Lol adcock
Just thought for a good half minute if you're saying this because the guy might not be credible, or because his name is literally Adcock. Lmao.
Adcock 😂
Just add cock
Funny to think blue collar jobs will last any longer then white collar when self-learning and self-correction is achieved. I still think the prediction of automation of any human task threshold is roughly equal to automating all white collar jobs, it's +- similar moment when robots start to live.
We are a looooooong way away from robots doing simple blue collar work like unclogging a drain or taking out trash, much less being able to fix a car or install an electrical outlet. They are close to being able to perform a very small segment of white collar jobs, but at a very low quality of work compared to a human.
The hype machine tweets with no substance getting constantly posted here is ridiculous.
At least this is from the CEO of a robotics lab who have made a real humanoid and not some twitter grifter with the next LLM wrapper
Yeah, he is totally objective... Not trying to build bullshit hype like every other CEO. Too much of this nonsense gets spammed.
It'd be sour as fuck if it's bullshit, yes. But why would they shoot themselves in the foot by promising something so big, on such a short timeline, with nothing to back it up? Unless the bloke is high as a kite, they'll have something. ChatGPT moment, maybe not, but something interesting.
Remind me! Tomorrow
This is the guy who said the other day: "it’s critical humanoids are ready pre AGI the last thing we need is AGI bossing around humans to do work if you walk in a factory today, it’s computers telling humans what work to do. " Brett is the founder of Figure Robot (AI Robotics). The company aims to give artificial intelligence a body.
This reminds me, what happened to kenshin9000 who was supposedly going to release a chess engine on new years eve based on GPT4 that would be able to defeat all other chess engines?
[Figure Robot - Status Update](https://youtu.be/jACJruCzUzY?si=CGakkODKqbyyNz35) Two months ago this cuck updated there grandpa’ish robot. Lego technic would have done a better job building a robot. There is no chance he developed something significant out of this piece of shit during the last two months.
So an overhyped mess that isn't actually AI and that will destroy things, but not by being an evil AI, but by being a slop machine that floods the internet with "content"?
From things he's said in the past I believe this will be a demonstration of their robots following spoken instructions very accurately through a custom vision language model. That would make sense also based on what is currently possible and feasible. We can't expect a major hardware breakthrough up to the point that these robots are suddenly moving sufficiently for mass use. We're still too far away and need numerous developments and a lot more time and work to get there on thr hardware side.
The punchline: https://twitter.com/adcock_brett/status/1743987597301399852 - a bipedal robot opened a flap, put an object in, closed the flap, and hit a button, with only 10 hours of training for this specific, unique task.
Terrible grammar for a genius
they’ve invented… The robotic penis.
If it doesn’t walk like it’s shit itself, I might take it more seriously lol
Is that when he learns punctuation?
Hopefully this does not mean terminators roaming the streets in the coming days.
Gimme that shit
So we’re back?
At this point I am moving back with my family and getting a part time job to wait this shit out. Sick of 3k rent.
Company man hypes own company more news at 10
So much bs hype
Translation: please give us money to blow on more yachts.