Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide using AI as seen in a somewhat unsettling video posted by Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics used OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, along with some open-source large language models (LLM) to carefully train its responses. It then outfitted the bot with a speaker, added text-to-speech capabilities, and made its mouth mimic speech “like the mouth of a puppet.”

The version speaking in a British accent and the one of a Shakespearean time traveller had me 😂 but it’s certainly a little unsettling overall.

  • Bebo@literature.cafeOP
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year 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.

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        1 year ago

        Considering the robot is capable of locomotion and manipulating things with it’s arm, it’s not impossible to think something like this is the first step toward training an LLM on some specific physical task and giving it the robotics to accomplish the goal.

        You seem like the kind of person who hates the idea of AI so you go out of your way to make it seem like it’s just soooo boooring to you.

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          1 year ago

          Lol, I love AI and develop with it almost every day. AI wasn’t the problem here, it was just weird to me that it was Boston Dynamics making this video. It was really surprising tbh. It’s a video I expect from someone doing this on their hobby RC car project or something.