Artificial intelligence meets robotics: will ChatGPT-powered robots make people unemployed?
A team of programmers just equipped the famous Boston Dynamics robot dog with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s text-to-speech voice modulation, which allows it to literally talk to them and answer their questions.
In a video posted to Twitter, a machine learning engineer demonstrated how Spot the robotic dog was programmed to verbally answer the system’s questions using the most popular artificial intelligence tool of the moment.
The integration, implemented by machine learning engineer Santiago Valdarrama, enables efficient survey data collection using ChatGPT, which interprets questions and formulates answers in real time.
“These bots perform automated tasks every day. Each task uses miles of hard-to-understand configuration files. Only technical people can handle them. At the end of each task, the bots collect a lot of data. There is no simple way to ask everything on demand,” Santiago tweeted on April 25.
We integrated ChatGPT with our robots.We had a ton of fun building this!
Read on for the details: pic.twitter.com/DRC2AOF0eU
— Santiago (@svpino) April 25, 2023
The integration required creating certain conditions and routines for ChatGPT to work properly in Spot, but the end result is impressive, as Spot now provides valuable feedback and accepts commands.
Artificial intelligence is finding its feet in many fields, such as filmmaking, but some are worried that its use in works of art, for example, could put people out of work.
Earlier in February, Microsoft published a paper outlining design principles for integrating ChatGPT into robotics, Futurism reported.
“We believe our work is just the beginning of a shift in how we develop robotic systems,” the company said in a press release, saying they hope to inspire other researchers to jump into this exciting field.
When the video of the robot was posted on Twitter, some users expressed concern about the pace of advancement of technologies integrated with artificial intelligence.
Do questions come up around what these should NOT do and ways to avoid going down a path that would lead to unethical uses? No stopping AI and robotics but curious if you and your team are costably thinking of these in addition to the work you are doing. Thank you 🙏🏽 cheers.— d3vin.eth (@Devin_Simonson) April 25, 2023
Do questions arise about what these should NOT do and ways to avoid going down a path that would lead to unethical use? Artificial intelligence and robotics can’t be stopped, but curious, Do you and your team think of these in addition to the work you do dearly. Thank you. hooray,” one of the scared users responded to the video posted by Santiago.
Another user commented: “I appreciate your research and work, but I just don’t think we should connect bots to GPT at this point, even in this limited context.”
On a sad note, one user said: “This is how the Terminator movie begins.”
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