Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots are combining to do incredible things.
This AI can generate human-like faces,
and the results look so real that humans can barely tell the difference.
See for yourself. Now, can you tell which one of these two is an AI-generated image?
We’ll come back to this later, but right now,
AI-based systems and robots are smashing it big time. Check out Sofia’s flawless
performance on the Good Morning Britain show or this chilling joke by Jon, the robot.
There's been an unending debate about the state of mind of these machines, and just as Elon Musk
prepares to enter the fray with his Teslabot, many have suggested that some of the latest AI robots
could be conscious. That's a serious allegation to make, so we thought to find out for ourselves.
Join us in today's video as we attempt to answer the one question
that’s causing scientists sleepless nights: will AI ever be conscious?
Or are they conscious already?
Keep watching to find out.
Equipped with big data, AI-powered robots are doing the unthinkable.
Look how well Google’s Pathway Language Model (PaLM) explains complicated jokes
during a demonstration with Dr. Alan Thompson,
a world AI expert that specializes in the augmentation of human intelligence.
It certainly outperforms the GPT-3 AI system, which was already light years ahead of humans
in terms of general knowledge and SAT analogies. There are no surprises here, though, because, with
540 billion parameters, Google’s PaLM model is one of the largest language models ever invented.
Flippy, a cooking robot designed by Miso robotics, is working alongside human employees to cook and
serve chicken tenders at the Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium, which averages 50,000 customers daily.
Before being called to service by the American baseball team,
Flippy had a full-time job at the Chicago branch of the White Castle hamburger.
Large neural network systems like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 can design just about any image you request for.
All you have to do is input the right text descriptions.
Like “an armchair in the shape of an avocado…”
“a cross-section view of a walnut”
“The exact same cat on the top as a sketch on the bottom.”
“An emoji of a baby penguin wearing a blue hat, red gloves, green shirt, and yellow pants.”
I bet you're stunned by all of the results. That's normal because we're stunned too.
But it’s not magic. This 12-billion parameter version of the GPT-3 was trained to identify
and generate images from text descriptions using a deep learning dataset of text-image
pairs. And as we saw with some of the examples, this neural network system can
also find the relationship between multiple objects and relay it to humans with ease.
What’s more interesting about this platform is that it also works in reverse. So,
let’s say you upload this image, the system will find and return the text description that
matches the relationship between the objects in the picture. Not to mention that it can
also perform modifications like taking out the background, skewing images, changing texture,
and adding reflections or shadows. It’s believed that the DALL-E 2 system offers better design
quality than 99% of human graphic designers. And in terms of speed and accuracy, humans stand no
chance at all against this AI-powered system. Does it mean professional graphic artists are about to
lose their jobs? Let us know what you think in the comment section. But before you do that,
you might wanna check out this AI-powered service called Deep Nostalgia. Developed by MyHeritage,
this one is even more impressive than the Dalle AI system. It can animate still photos
and bring old images to life. This AI also features a Speech2Voice software
that creates a near-perfect portrait of a person by listening to their voice recording only.
We imagine that one of these technologies was used to generate this image.
Both platforms will also come in handy in developing different metaverse worlds.
There are several other smart systems and robots like this that are making life easier for people.
Meet Yoshida and Yolanda - the dynamic duo that runs the show at Yotel hotel in Singapore.
This is RoboBee, a rescue and surveillance bot designed by MIT.
This cherry-picking robot takes the stress off farmers. And this one makes construction easier.
The US military has outsourced its border patrol responsibility to Boston Dynamic’s Spot robot.
Drummers will need some time to understand how it works,
but this robot drum will certainly wow the crowd.
Oh, and this is a Toyota Supra showing off its autonomous drifting capability.
Automakers are looking to explore self-driving tech further to make
it more appealing to customers and regulators.
Tesla is at the forefront of this initiative as it prepares to replace
the radar sensors in its new cars with a vision-based autonomous system. It will,
however, be supported by twelve ultrasonic sensors.
But unlike cameras, radar technology is able to detect fog and snow. So it's left to be seen
what Tesla is trying to achieve with this move. However, some other companies have decided to
stick with sensors. Waymo and Cruise, for example, are self-driving cars that use LiDAR technology.
These two templates will be pitted against each other when Tesla, Waymo, and Cruise test their
best self-driving vehicles in a race from San Francisco to New York later this year. Each car
will have three opportunities where engineers can revive them if they break down or get stuck
during the journey. Any other issues after those three saves will result in disqualification.
Apple is also said to be filing patents for a car that could compete in this race.
It'll be interesting to see which car is the first to arrive in New York.
Meanwhile, Waymo is already testing its autonomous taxi in San Francisco.
And Tesla is expanding its operations and capacity by launching a new Gigafactory.
This facility will serve as the production home for a range of Tesla products,
including the Tesla Model Y, the Tesla semi-truck,
Roadster, Cybertruck, Robo taxi, and Tesla's humanoid robot named Optimus.
Musk believes that this robot will spark more revolution than
autonomous cars and usher in an era of abundance.
But will this abundance be available to all?
Many years ago, William Gibson predicted that “the future has
arrived — it's just not evenly distributed yet.”
If everything goes according to plan and Musk’s prediction comes to fruition,
this might be the AI revolution that we've all been waiting for. One that will exceed
our expectations and give us untamed freedom to live life to the fullest.
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Despite the numerous benefits that the incoming AI revolution holds for mankind,
there's a growing fear that it might be our biggest undoing. as well.
A few months ago, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever
said on Twitter that “today's largest neural networks are slightly conscious.”
At the time, many believed he was referring to the GPT-3, a language processing AI system that can
perform a number of tasks, including translation, question answering, and filling in missing words.
Now, imagine what Google’s PaLM AI will be able to do with 540 billion parameters.
We hear Tesla's robot will be much more powerful than these two. Shouldn't we be scared?
According to reports, “AI systems will probably (over 50%) reach overall human
ability by 2040-50, and very likely (with 90% probability) by 2075.”
During a survey in 2015, 184 students were asked if they believe that contemporary electronic
computers are conscious. 82% answered no, 15% were uncertain, and 3% answered yes.
But like Sutskever, some other experts believe robots might already have a mind of their own.
Overall, scientists can't really seem to pick a
side and that makes things worse for ordinary observers like you and I.
But as far as we know, robots are not conscious just yet. Will they become
conscious sometime in the future? Nobody knows.
Elon Musk just recently purchased Twitter for $44 billion and robots could be key to
the way he will implement some of his policies and ideas for the platform.
On the side the billionaire is also pushing for
a world where there will be at least one robot in every home.
He might as well use Twitter to pass on this message to people in
different parts of the world. But he has to complete his free speech mission first.
And then he can resume the task of convincing his over 80 million
followers on Twitter to invest in the next-generation Tesla robots.
We've seen a couple of videos of this robot and we must say that it looks a bit creepy.
What do you think? Will it be the first conscious AI robot to exist?
Will robots overrun us someday? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.
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