Google Engineers Taught a Robot Dog to Catch a Squirrel Using Generative AI
Paranoid observers of evolving AI tech may take some solace in the fact that nearly all of the recent mainstream attention has focused on LLMs limited to lifeless, harmless strings of code. Well, that’s not quite the case.
Researchers at Google DeepMind recently created a new AI model that can take complex human language commands and translate them into a form a robot dog could understand. Videos of the results show the researchers typing in commands like, “hop over here,” or “don’t grab that squirrel.” The language model interprets strings of words and converts them into the proper string of code that the machine dog can understand. Within moments, the robo-dog actually responds to the inputs in ways even a well-trained physical dog might not.
