I, for one, welcome our new dancing robot overlords.
How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Humanity's goal should be to build AGI and let robots take over - we're doing it, willingly or unwillingly. No need to have blobs of meat hanging around. Intelligence itself is human thing. Whether it needs to have a body / physical metabolic processes to run by injesting cheetos all day, is totally absurd. Evolutionary processes have given us so much unnecessary baggage. Pure abstract intelligence is pretty damn hum…
This is bound to happen. There is no way it wouldn't I believe, of course in short term, we gotta worry about stuff like politics, solving hunger and world peace. There will never be world peace, unless humanity is no longer human, or alternately, under the boot of an all encompassing empire ruled by force. To believe otherwise, is to believe history teaches us nothing, nor our knowledge of human behaviour. To assume…
1) really looks like the world from Brave New World.
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#53My sister choreographed this dance, and I’m a little unhappy that she isn’t mentioned here by name. She’s brilliant, and I want her to get credit. Her name is Monica Thomas. Her dance company is called Mad King Thomas. Here is her brand new Twitter account: https://mobile.twitter.com/onetruebonc Her sense of humor is captured by her choice of the song “Do you love me”, which is a winking but still charming reference…
The choreography was my favourite part, it's hard for me to even think how do you plan that.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Humanity's goal should be to build AGI and let robots take over - we're doing it, willingly or unwillingly. No need to have blobs of meat hanging around. Intelligence itself is human thing. Whether it needs to have a body / physical metabolic processes to run by injesting cheetos all day, is totally absurd. Evolutionary processes have given us so much unnecessary baggage. Pure abstract intelligence is pretty damn hum…
This is bound to happen. There is no way it wouldn't I believe, of course in short term, we gotta worry about stuff like politics, solving hunger and world peace. There will never be world peace, unless humanity is no longer human, or alternately, under the boot of an all encompassing empire ruled by force. To believe otherwise, is to believe history teaches us nothing, nor our knowledge of human behaviour. To assume…
Robots are our next steps, we don't need to hang around.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's nothing scary about these robots, any more than my Roomba is scary. They are tools, and like all tools, they can be used for nefarious purposes or for the benefit of mankind.
A roomba doesn't have the potential to kill you.
It has a potential to sell info about you though.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's nothing scary about these robots, any more than my Roomba is scary. They are tools, and like all tools, they can be used for nefarious purposes or for the benefit of mankind.
This robot is Version 1.0. And yes, it’s just a puppet. For now. A human controls its movements. What’s missing is a brain. And that will come in Version 4.0. Or whenever they perfect a decision and control system, for fully autonomous decision making. That’s when you should worry. Or rather. You’re probably safe, if you live in one of the western allied nations. That is your privilege. But a black, brown, red, or ye…
We already have scarier robots, they are called self guided missiles. You don't have to imagine this new world.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea I still don't know what the input level is for the robots, did they use some sort of dance notation[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labanotation
Probably limb positions at discreet instances in time, and bots know how to move from one position to another.
There's more to it than just that. There's no way that just moving to predefined limb positions would be stable.
You can't script an unstable system without feedback. Any tiny perturbation would cause the robot to fall over. You need to actively control the system to counteract the instability.
So there will be some (scripted) goals, and a very complicated control algorithm that tries to reach the goals without falling over.
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#58Fascinating! On a separate note, I was reading up on Boston Dynamics just the other day and was surprised to see that they are now owned by Hyundai (Google X sold BD to SoftBank who sold them to Hyundai). I guess was surprised to see non US-based ownership because I had always assumed the US government had some interest in the core technology.
Still with a protectorate.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
A roomba doesn't have the potential to kill you.
Mount a knife on it. Though to day, the most dangerous murderous machines we have created have been cars.
Your wish is my command. https://youtu.be/OwtxWL0P9wA
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There are some hints with this excerpt: "Atlas’ current dance performance uses a mixture of what we like to call reflexive control, which is a combination of reacting to forces, online and offline trajectory optimization, and model predictive control. We leverage these techniques because they’re a reliable way of unlocking really high performance stuff, and we understand how to wield these tools really well. We haven…
"offline trajectory optimization" this doesn't sound good... I read this as : "we've made those robots do things they won't be able to do autonomously thanks to massive amounts of offline optimization". Sure it's impressive, but I wonder how it helps the casual viewer to get an idea of what these robots can actually do. One could say that's the whole point of PR but... It sure helped BD engineer to push their robots…
Offline trajectory optimisation sounds a lot like a dancer training dance moves?