They are trying to move from “making an impressive video for the show” to “solving actual, real and usefull applications”. So this take obviously a long time to produce new results that show this.
Comment on Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
silverbax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As a minor aside to the story, I find it interesting that the devs tried to make the robotic dog ‘talk’ by opening and closing it’s ‘mouth’ and failed. Cinema such as Star Wars has proven that humans don’t need an android or robot to actually move it’s mouth when it speaks.
Merwyn@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Boston Dynamics YouTube channel has been filled with silly videos. Often times they are duel function. 1. Build brand awareness through fun videos, and 2. Show the versatility of the onboard systems. In this case they are showing of the ability to navigate a real world human environment and the sensors/cameras that can be fed into other systems for advanced decision making and planning.
Bebo@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Also, the robots embracing the “personalities” was interesting (for someone like me who doesn’t have technical knowledge of LLMs etc) as well as entertaining.
Z4rK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How do you mean the robots embraced the personalities?
Bebo@literature.cafe 11 months ago
From what I understood, a short prompt regarding a personality was provided based on which the LLM generated the lines which were converted into speech conveyed to the listener through speakers. (If some technicalities are incorrect feel free to correct me). I used “embraced” kind of metaphorically. The robots themselves didn’t literally embrace a personality.