Robotics and artificial intelligence: they’ll spell the end of humanity, but scientists and engineers just keep racing forward with the technologies whether we like it or not. And now Boston Dynamics has harnessed the power of ChatGPT to turn one of its Spot quadruped robots into a talking tour guide. But can it speak in the style of a 1920s archaeologist? What good would it be if it couldn’t?
The robotic tour guide can lead visitors around the facility and describe objects in the environment using a visual question answering (VQA) model and go into more detail if prompted using a large language model (LLM). It can also answer questions, make decisions about what to discuss or do next, and speak in any variety of different personalities.
In the video, Spot demonstrates its 1920s archeologist personality, as well as a British butler, a teenage robot, and “Josh,” a gloomy, sarcastic robot. That one was probably my favorite because it reminded me a lot of myself. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t mind hanging out with Josh. And that’s precisely how Skynet is going to get us.
[via TechEBlog and Laughing Squid]
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