Comment on Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months agoBoston 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.
Z4rK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Then I agree. I guess that’s why I didn’t find this very interesting - you could strap speakers and ChatGPT to anything really, it has very little to do with the robot.