Viral: ChatGPT-AI, Google tech, give voice to Boston Dynamics’ robot dog
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A team of programmers has outfitted Boston Dynamics' robot dog, Spot, with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Text-to-Speech speech modulation in a viral video.
Santiago Valdarrama, a machine learning engineer, tweeted about the successful integration, which allows the robot to answer inquiries about its missions in real-time, considerably boosting data query efficiency, in a viral video on Twitter.
"We can now ask the robots about past and future missions and get an answer in real-time," Valdarrama said in a thread of tweets that starts with the popular video, which has over a million views so far.
"ChatGPT interprets the question, parses the files, and formulates the answer."
We integrated ChatGPT with our robots.
— Santiago (@svpino) April 25, 2023
We had a ton of fun building this!
Read on for the details: pic.twitter.com/DRC2AOF0eU
However, for ChatGPT to work properly within Spot, specific phrases and procedures had to be developed.
With the new integration, Spot may give helpful feedback and take orders from the team, giving them the pertinent information they require, according to the engineer.
Ethical issues with the use of AI in robotics
While AI's use in robotics has resulted in important advancements and breakthroughs, it has also sparked worries about the potential loss of human jobs.
To combat this, regulations are being developed in numerous nations. In fields like artwork, where AI's Diffusion and Midjourney have been accused of stealing from artists, OpenAI's ChatGPT has come under fire.
Joe Russo, the co-director of Avengers Endgame, recently spoke about the possibilities of artificial intelligence in filmmaking as its use in numerous sectors grows.
"Do questions come up around what these should NOT do and ways to avoid going down a path that would lead to unethical uses?" a Twitter user asked the software engineer.
"We are limiting ChatGPT to answer questions from a context we generate, so there's no way to get any other text," Valdarrama replied.
"ChatGPT can't control the robot at all. It's just conversational," he added.
Microsoft and OpenAI's AI-robotic design
Although the addition of ChatGPT to Spot may seem to be a step in the direction of a robot uprising, it was always the intention to incorporate chatbots into robots.
Microsoft, which just announced a multi-billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI, published a paper defining design guidelines for ChatGPT-robotics integration in February.
However, the incorporation of AI into robotics must be carefully considered to avoid controversy, as evidenced by the negative reaction to a video of a Boston Dynamics knockoff robot dog firing a submachine gun last year.
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