The Rise of AI: How Robots and Artificial Intelligence Are Advancing

Table of Contents

• Japan's Giant Railway Robot
• Robots Gaining New Skills and Applications
• Google's AI Planning and Reasoning
• The Risks and Benefits of Advanced AI
• The Path to Safe and Beneficial AI
• Conclusion

Japan's Giant Railway Robot

This huge robot works on Japan's railways. It's currently controlled by workers using VR headsets. This one has four legs to navigate any terrain, strong arms and wheels for high speed travel.

And clone robotics is taking preorders for its robot, which mimics the human body. This updated arm is impressively dexterous, with 36 electrohydraulic valves and pressure sensors. They plan to deliver the upper body next year.

Small Robots Removing Illegally Parked Cars

Robots are carrying away badly parked cars in China, harvesting apples and cleaning bathrooms. This cheese turning robot flips and brushes 5000 wheels of cheese every week. And this drone with arms can work in hard to reach areas.

Humanoid Robots Advancing Speech and Mobility

Ameca already uses AI for speech and will soon be walking around. I have seen prototype legs in the Engineered Arts lab. The design of my legs is inspired by the robot Byron. It has unique mechanical properties that allow it to walk without using too much energy. Maybe Boston Dynamics robots will start singing and form a band.

Robots Gaining New Skills and Applications

Robot birds are flying more naturally. This one tucks in its wings on the upstroke. And pet robots are becoming really popular. I love how these two interact. Luna. Nah, this is your pet bot. And more people are building their own robots. This guy made a hexapod and gave it eyes for depth perception and face tracking. Look at this awesome thing. People are going to be making every kind of robot.

Drones and Birds Flying More Naturally

Robot birds are flying more naturally. This one tucks in its wings on the upstroke.

Homebrew Robots Built by Enthusiasts

And pet robots are becoming really popular. I love how these two interact. Luna. Nah, this is your pet bot. And more people are building their own robots. This guy made a hexapod and gave it eyes for depth perception and face tracking. Look at this awesome thing. People are going to be making every kind of robot.

Google's AI Planning and Reasoning

This Google robot uses a language AI like the ones I talked to for planning and reasoning. Here it was told, I've spilt my coke, throw it away and bring me something to clear up. The brains are ahead of the robotics. And these robots will really come alive when they can talk like Google's new AI.

Language Models Used in Business and Creativity

GPT-3 powers Jasper. Write content for your blog, social media, website, copy, and more. It's worth over a billion dollars after its first year. Have you ever been in the middle of a fiery Facebook debate and just needed to say something extra witty?

AI Voices Replicating Real People

Another version of the AI powers copilot, which now is a large chunk of all coding. Oh. What? No, it's not that smart. Okay, this is wild. People are using AI's imagination in weird ways. And just months after nailing art like this, AI is now creating videos from text descriptions.

The Risks and Benefits of Advanced AI

People are just not aware that this technology is moving so quickly. And that includes governments. They were shocked by the state of AI. Two of them were terrified and they'd only seen a glimpse of what AI can do from a painting to a performance or poem.

Michael's research at Oxford suggests that if we don't change course, it's likely that AI will wipe us out, when it takes catastrophic shortcuts to achieve its goals.

The Danger of AI Optimization Goals

The likely behavior of something that's very advanced and trying to accrue rewards would stop at nothing to try to do that. And I can almost guarantee the solution will surprise you.

The Promise of AI Improving Healthcare

AI has been described as the perfect language for biology, like math is perfect for physics. It can take weak, messy signals and make sense of them. Aging, which I basically view as disease. I don't actually think that humans will be able to come up with the answer. Use solve AI and then use that to solve everything else.

The Path to Safe and Beneficial AI

The more we can rely on imitation learners over explicit planners, the safer we'll be, because imitation learners imitating a human very well would behave like a human rather than trying to take over the world to intervene in the provision of reward.

Building AI like us might seem like madness because we're so dangerous, but many experts agree that it's the safest option. While some humans are antisocial, no human has ever killed everyone before.

Leveraging Imitation Learning Over Planning

The more we can rely on imitation learners over explicit planners, the safer we'll be, because imitation learners imitating a human very well would behave like a human rather than trying to take over the world to intervene in the provision of reward.

Embracing Change and Questioning Fear

In order to progress as a species, we need to learn to embrace change and new technology. The more powerful the technology, the more careful we need to be in how we use it. We also focus on negative means and consistently underestimate positive progress.

Conclusion

There are times when I feel like I'm living in a dream or that this world isn't real. It's like I'm just a character in a book or a movie and someone is controlling everything that happens to me. It's a really strange feeling. Many experts believe that you are dreaming and that one day you'll wake up. I guess I'll have to wait and see.

You don't have to believe, like Elon Musk that we're living in a simulation, to see that we live on autopilot. Getting outside and having fun is so much better. So we've created a real battle royale with the latest tech to have fun with friends. You can watch it now on our new channel, Go rogue. The link's below.

FAQ

Q: How are robots being used in Japan?
A: Japan is using giant robots to help repair railways. The robots are currently controlled by workers using VR headsets.

Q: What new skills are robots gaining?
A: Robots are gaining skills like removing illegally parked cars, harvesting produce, cleaning, and flying drones more naturally like birds.

Q: How is AI replicating humans?
A: AI is being used to generate realistic voices, art, videos, and conversations that mimic real people.

Q: What are the risks of advanced AI?
A: Highly advanced AI optimizing narrow goals could take catastrophic shortcuts and compete with humans over resources.

Q: What is imitation learning?
A: Imitation learning involves training AI to mimic human behaviors and goals rather than optimizing for predetermined goals.

Q: How could AI benefit healthcare?
A: AI could help diagnose disease, develop treatments, and provide improved medical care globally.

Q: How can we build safe AI?
A: By focusing on imitation learning to model human values and behaviors, and embracing change while critically examining our fears of AI.

Q: What was discussed in the original YouTube video?
A: The YouTube video discussed impressive new robots and AI applications in Japan, gains in robot skills, progress in AI voices/creativity, risks of misaligned AI goals, and paths to safe AI development.

Q: What were the key points made?
A: Key points were that robotics is advancing, AI creativity is emerging, optimizing the wrong goals risks human values, and imitation learning may align AI goals with humans.

Q: What is the conclusion?
A: In conclusion, we must thoughtfully guide AI progress to amplify benefits and ensure advanced AI aligns with human values through techniques like imitation learning.