Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
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Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
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Re: Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
#2Why is OpenAI investing in startups? They invest 100 million in another as well. I thought OpenAI was building their own things as a non profit, why are they investing? Is it normal for non profits to invest like this? Do they lack confidence in their own stuff, do OpenAI have too much money they don't know what to do with?
"Norwegian humanoid robot startup 1X Technologies recently raised $100 million with backing from OpenAI"
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/29/robot-startup-figure-valued-...
Re: Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
#3Non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/ZtfNh
Re: Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
#4Why is OpenAI investing in startups? They invest 100 million in another as well. I thought OpenAI was building their own things as a non profit, why are they investing? Is it normal for non profits to invest like this? Do they lack confidence in their own stuff, do OpenAI have too much money they don't know what to do with? "Norwegian humanoid robot startup 1X Technologies recently raised $100 million with backing fr…
OpenAI no longer operates as a non-profit. The "OpenAI" name has been a joke for years in tech circles for this reason.
Re: Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
#5Why is OpenAI investing in startups? They invest 100 million in another as well. I thought OpenAI was building their own things as a non profit, why are they investing? Is it normal for non profits to invest like this? Do they lack confidence in their own stuff, do OpenAI have too much money they don't know what to do with? "Norwegian humanoid robot startup 1X Technologies recently raised $100 million with backing fr…
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Re: Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
#6Why is OpenAI investing in startups? They invest 100 million in another as well. I thought OpenAI was building their own things as a non profit, why are they investing? Is it normal for non profits to invest like this? Do they lack confidence in their own stuff, do OpenAI have too much money they don't know what to do with? "Norwegian humanoid robot startup 1X Technologies recently raised $100 million with backing fr…
Yes, it's quite common, see for example:
Re: Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
#7A 4 year old child has 16k wake hours x 3600 s/hour x 1^6 optical nerve fibers x 2 eyes x 10 bytes/s = 1^15 bytes (approximation by Yann LeCun).
Processing visual input is the current bottleneck for robots that want to make sense of the physical world. Glad somebody's looking into it (no pun intended). I just hope their plan is more sophisticated than throwing more computational power at the problem.
Re: Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
#8Why is OpenAI investing in startups? They invest 100 million in another as well. I thought OpenAI was building their own things as a non profit, why are they investing? Is it normal for non profits to invest like this? Do they lack confidence in their own stuff, do OpenAI have too much money they don't know what to do with? "Norwegian humanoid robot startup 1X Technologies recently raised $100 million with backing fr…
Apparently it is a separate entity and fund, they don't invest money from OpenAI but money raised specifically for investing. So this doesn't say much about OpenAI, they aren't investing money they could use themselves.
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-vc-fund-raised-10-mil...
Re: Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
#9A 4 year old child has 16k wake hours x 3600 s/hour x 1^6 optical nerve fibers x 2 eyes x 10 bytes/s = 1^15 bytes (approximation by Yann LeCun). Processing visual input is the current bottleneck for robots that want to make sense of the physical world. Glad somebody's looking into it (no pun intended). I just hope their plan is more sophisticated than throwing more computational power at the problem.
I would say conceptual awareness is a far bigger bottleneck than visual perception data.
Re: Physical Intelligence is building a brain for robots
#10Why is OpenAI investing in startups? They invest 100 million in another as well. I thought OpenAI was building their own things as a non profit, why are they investing? Is it normal for non profits to invest like this? Do they lack confidence in their own stuff, do OpenAI have too much money they don't know what to do with? "Norwegian humanoid robot startup 1X Technologies recently raised $100 million with backing fr…
OpenAI no longer operates as a non-profit. The "OpenAI" name has been a joke for years in tech circles for this reason.
I thought the joke was that OpenAI doesn't grant anything even resembling an "open" license (whether free as in freedom according to the FSF, open as in open source according to the OSI, or open as in Open Knowledge's definition [1]) to use OpenAI's models. (Tangential reminder: open is not merely access to the code and data but also the legal freedom to use and modify it for any purpose.)