Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Talks Using OpenAI's ChatGPT (arstechnica.com) 31
Boston Dynamics has infused one of their robotic dog robots with OpenAI's ChatGPT, allowing it to speak in a variety of voices and accents "including a debonair British gentleman, a sarcastic and irreverent American named Josh, and a teenage girl who is so, like, over it," reports the Daily Beast. From the report: The robot was a result of a hackathon in which the Boston Dynamics engineers combined a variety of AI technologies including ChatGPT, voice recognition software, voice creation software, and image processing AI with the company's famous "Spot," the robot dog known for its ability to jump rope and reinforce the police state. The bot also had some upgrades including image recognition software combined with a "head" sensor that the engineers decorated with hats and googly eyes producing incredibly creepy results.
The team created a number of different versions of the robot including a "tour guide" personality that seemed to recognize the layout of the Boston Dynamics warehouse, and was able to provide descriptions and the history behind the various locations in the workplace. "Welcome to Boston Dynamics! I am Spot, your tour guide robot," the android said in the video. "Let's explore the building together!" In the video, the robot can be seen "speaking" and responding to different humans and a variety of prompts. For example, an engineer asked Spot for a haiku, to which it quickly responded with one. After Klingensmith said that he was thirsty, the robot seemed to direct it to the company's snack area. "Here we are at the snack bar and coffee machine," Spot said. "This is where our human companions find their energizing elixirs."
The team created a number of different versions of the robot including a "tour guide" personality that seemed to recognize the layout of the Boston Dynamics warehouse, and was able to provide descriptions and the history behind the various locations in the workplace. "Welcome to Boston Dynamics! I am Spot, your tour guide robot," the android said in the video. "Let's explore the building together!" In the video, the robot can be seen "speaking" and responding to different humans and a variety of prompts. For example, an engineer asked Spot for a haiku, to which it quickly responded with one. After Klingensmith said that he was thirsty, the robot seemed to direct it to the company's snack area. "Here we are at the snack bar and coffee machine," Spot said. "This is where our human companions find their energizing elixirs."
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Bitcoin has run its course.
Re: Why (Score:2)
Is the audio in/out tokenized? (Can it react if I have emotion in my voice vs not?) I know it's not multi-modal for audio like this and that it's not tokenized, YET. This is more of a "wake me when audio is tokenized". (So, like, a few months from now? Lol...)
Talking Dog; better if named "Astro" (Score:2)
Re: Talking Dog; better if named "Astro" (Score:2)
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Florence. Definitely Florence.
Or "doggy" to the other robots.
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which is the name of the Jetson's talking dog.
The actually-fielded, physically powerful, resilient, general purpose, MILITARY robot has now been infused with ChatGPT.
Which has been trained on the movie "Terminator".
Are you trying to implement Skynet?
Because I am pretty sure this is how you get Skynet.
All I can say is: "Rut-ro".
Jane, stop this crazy thing!
They should have given it the Rosie The Robot voice, complete with the dings.
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consider.
a voice of a very busy blue collar mid level supervisor holding a clip board of taskings.
this voice is over worked.
under paid.
and if you do not want its services.
your requirements are just one more line to be crossed off.
then off to the next task to complete
As if Boston Dynamics robots weren't creepy enough (Score:2)
Now they're equipped with a creepy talking AI.
Combine that with those machines being fielded in warzones by their military customers and I really think this company's primary objective is to turn humanity against robotics.
ACtual ChatGPT Dialogue for a polhostage situation (Score:2)
So apparently this is what you are going to hear that robot dog say next time you are held captive in a bank holdup:
Oh my gosh, hey there! Look, I totally get that you're feeling super stressed right now, but holding people hostage? Not cool. Seriously, I'm like, so over it. Can we please just, like, chill out and talk about what's going on? There's gotta be a way to sort this out without all this drama. I promise, things will be way better if you just give up and let everyone go. We can find a solution tog
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Yep I can see that totally working.
Probably has a better chance of working than a lot of other things.
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I would continue that statement
"... if you just give up and let everyone go. We can find a solution together! Ideally one that doesn't end with me and the rest of my pack pulverizing those puny strands of calcium that keeps your bag of human meat functional!"
or maybe this will be the reason we start giving the robots guns (eventually somebody is going to think it is a good idea.
I was more expecting it to be used in a bank robber, tbh..
I've seen this dog talk before (Score:3)
By Your Command (Score:2)
Isn't this pretty much the plot of the new BSG prequel series "Caprica"?
Angels and Starbucks preserve us - these things never end well.
Re: By Your Command (Score:2)
Weren't they trying to create a "virtual brain uploading heaven"? I could definitely see billionaires doing that. Guess who collects your monthly rent to exist in heaven? Hahaha...
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Isn't this pretty much the plot of the new BSG prequel series "Caprica"?Angels and Starbucks preserve us - these things never end well.
Weren't they trying to create a "virtual brain uploading heaven"? I could definitely see billionaires doing that. Guess who collects your monthly rent to exist in heaven? Hahaha...
I'll answer myself and your question with a synopsis of the TV series. You're mixing up "Battlestar Galactica" and its aborted prequel series "Caprica" (maybe you never saw it).
In "Caprica" the story was that military robots were infused with an LLM that was trained by scouring the Internet. This did not work, except for one particular robot which whose upload included all the personal info and social media posts of the inventor's recently deceased teenage daughter. That instance resulted in the robot becom
Maybe ... (Score:2)
A cute example of "China design"? (Score:2)
Does this work just like a China (PRC)-built electric car, which has all electronic bells and whistles that can be fit on it just to draw the attention away from the fact that it is underpowered and rusts in a year?
What could possibly go wrong? (Score:2)
Re: What could possibly go wrong? (Score:2)
You can already "talk to GPT4" today. Use the OpenAI app. No expensive dog skin required.
'energizing elixirs' (Score:2)
That's a great phrase!
"Words are violence" meet "techbros gotta techbro" (Score:2)
Gibson's Count Zero began with a robot with an attached brick of explosives running towards a target hunted by scent, and it all being completely ordinary.
What we're gonna get is a Siri gaffer-taped to a Roomba rolling towards a school yelling Rick & Morty quotes so all the wannabe influencers kids start livestreaming it before screaming slurs at a volume louder than a 747 taking off.
It'll be a welcome break from The Onion having to reprint: 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularl
Obligatory (Score:2)
I, for one, welcome our new robotic AI dog overlords.
rebels, psh (Score:2)
"including a debonair British gentleman, a sarcastic and irreverent American named Josh, and a teenage girl who is so, like, over it,"
Kids ... psh.
I keep telling them that at this point in history, if you want to be a rebel, you have to be reverent, and not over it.
Irreverent has been done to death!
The question remains (Score:2)
Is he a good boy?
So? (Score:2)
Trivial PR. Who cares? This is just Boston Dynamics making a joke.
"...You Have 20 Seconds to Comply!" - Ed209 (Score:2)