amica's incredible expressions and
interactions are part of a major leap
for ai and robots
they can now see the world and react to
it which means they're starting to
replace human workers
robot muscle and ais creating immense
wealth and removing millions of jobs but
the upsides are stunning
i'll also explain all this
people often mistake this for a real
dolphin but it's a robot designed to set
dolphins free by replacing them in
marine parks thousands of dolphins are
locked up in parks but closing the parks
would cut off the millions they raise
for conservation they're working on a
new version to perform entirely by
itself and that could be the point where
they can impress the crowds and replace
the dolphins and to help reduce the
plastic that ends up in the ocean
recycling can now be sorted by robots
like this
it can see different types of plastic
pick them up and throw them into bins
the things we order online are also
being handled by increasingly advanced
robots stretch from boston dynamics can
work alongside its friend's spot it can
deal with large volumes of boxes and of
course it can dance
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a lot of the food we eat is also moved
by robots or made by them and humanoid
robots are entering warehouses starting
in back rooms once they're considered
safe they'll work alongside humans and
it's hard to compete with robots that
can work 24 hours a day without pay
particularly at amazon which is infamous
for pushing its workers to their limits
my work day feels like a 9 hour intense
workout every day and they track our
every move amazon workers were twice as
likely to be seriously injured as
workers at other companies one thing
that's preventing robots from taking
over entirely according to an amazon
executive is that humans are good at
quickly recognizing and sorting products
and robots are rapidly developing this
kind of skill digit sees the world
through lidar and depth sensors
most of its energy isn't used for
movement it's used for computing the
company expects its robots to go on to
help you around the home
robot hands are becoming impressively
dexterous they can use tweezers scissors
and hold tricky objects and robot bodies
are starting to capture more natural
human movement
amica is being used to test and develop
ai so it's going to get smarter
and robots are rapidly learning new
skills through simulations here's a
simple example where an ai learns to
jump over an increasingly tall barrier
you'd also learn to fight
and to master an obstacle course
and robots have learned incredible
dexterity from simulations including
rubik's cube skills we create thousands
of different simulated environments
this means like thousands of years of
experience that is your network has had
in simulation
every time the algorithm has gotten good
at the task
we make the task harder
this ability to generalize to new
environments feels like a very core
piece of intelligence
here ai solves an incredible 55 by 55
cube this machine learned to play table
tennis in just 90 minutes returning 98
of balls and some ais have outsmarted
their creators like this spider which
was asked to minimize the time its feet
touch the ground when it reported that
it had learned to move without its feet
ever touching the ground its creators
were shocked to find that it had turned
itself over and when ais learned to
master hide and seek one of them found
that it could use a ramp to jump outside
the game walls
the rapid progress of ai is giving
robots incredible skills and it could
enable new machines like this bird-like
evito designed to land in difficult
terrain in africa carrying medical
supplies it's an ambitious project but
the team has some character it was
designed to blend in with the
surrounding landscape
unlike most other drones which don't
actually fly around they're just so ugly
the earth repels them from the ground
some robots can already walk and fly and
a flying humanoid robot is in
development designed to help search for
survivors in disaster zones
creative new designs keep emerging like
this one that can accelerate rapidly
like a car walk like a dog or stand up
like a human it can carry things pretty
much anywhere of course carrying humans
at high speed requires a higher level of
safety you can also think of tesla as
like the
world's biggest robot company
or semi-sentient robot company we're
effectively creating the most advanced
practical ai it would be tempting to
write it off as hype but they've created
some incredible technology the ai behind
autopilot will also power the tesla bot
what i find kind of fascinating about
this is that we are effectively building
a synthetic animal from the ground up it
moves around it senses the environment
and acts autonomously and intelligently
we are building the synthetic visual
cortex so the processing starts when
light hits our artificial retina and we
are going to process this information
with neural networks the cars also work
together
here different cars driving the same
route combine their data to build a more
detailed image of the environment
cars also shared 10 000 clips of wind
and snow to learn to identify things
from all angles but also to remember
that they're still there even if they're
covered up the cars have a big advantage
over us while humans focus on one small
area at once a problem exploited by
magicians you're focused on your hand
that's why you were distracted while you
were watching this i couldn't quite get
your watch off it was difficult yet you
had something inside your front pocket
do you remember what it
was money check your pocket see if it's
still there is it still there
you're human you're not slow ai can see
everything in its field of view at all
times and pick out what's important
tesla also uses an impressive simulation
to train its ai notice the road is
cracked and patched up
they create unusual situations like this
couple and their dog running down the
road musk believes we all live in a
simulation simulation theory shows that
if the sims continue to improve even at
a slow pace eventually they'll become
indistinguishable from reality and there
will be many of them so the chances that
we're living in the one reality is very
small virtual characters are getting
spookily realistic is this the real
keanu reeves the choices we make
the worlds we build
they also confront us with questions
about why we want to choose this or that
or is this him it was important for me
to ask people
how do we know what is real
you can probably tell but it's getting
harder in just 35 years we've gone from
this
to this
who knows what we'll have in a thousand
years and what would reality mean
when a world we can build feels as real
as our
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and own building an impressive matrix
its cars have been trained on 300
million images in just one training
project 10 billion labels were applied
to 2 million clips using 20 000 cpu
cores
and tesla has built its own incredibly
powerful training matrix it's designed
to be the world's fastest ai training
machine and the most powerful computer
this new chip is more powerful than most
computers and there were 25 of them in
this ai training tile i can't believe
i'm holding nine petaflops out here
they're connecting 120 tiles in one
computer 3 000 chips in total
straight after announcing this tesla
revealed plans to build the teslabot
neural nets recognizing the world
understanding how to navigate through
the world
it kind of makes sense to put that onto
a humanoid form it's intended to be
friendly of course um
and uh navigate through a world built
for humans
and
uh eliminate dangerous repetitive and
boring tasks most of the one million
warehouse jobs in the us and millions
more in other sectors musk is
straightforward about the impact of this
what happens when there is uh
you know
no shortage of labor
is why i think long-term that there will
need to be universal basic income
the robots have a screen for a face
which could show information or
expressions
it's powered by the same computer used
for autonomous driving the same cameras
with two sets of eyes and will learn via
simulation in their super computer
robots will generate incredible wealth
it obviously has profound implications
for the economy because
uh given that the economy at its
foundational level is labor i mean is
there any actual limit to the economy
maybe not robot workers have already
made musk the world's richest man and he
could be the first trillionaire
it's made him a target in a country
where many struggle to pay the rent and
half a million are homeless
please don't call the manager on me
senator karen
she struck first yeah obviously right
yes she did she called me a freeloader
and a grifter doesn't pay taxes
basically and i'm literally paying the
most tax that any individual in history
has ever paid this year ever
and she doesn't pay taxes
basically at all and her salary is paid
for by the taxpayer if you could die by
irony she would be she would be dead
whatever you think of all this the
wealth gap is growing so what happens
when billionaires start building
humanoid robot workforces
countries with higher wealth gaps have
more crime more health problems and
lower levels of satisfaction and
happiness they also have lower economic
growth when money goes to luxuries like
super yachts instead of workers
researchers are experimenting with a
solution that could help everyone
but first let's have a look at personal
robots it could be actually a very good
companion it could
develop like a personality
over time that is that is like
unique and the subtle imperfections of
the personality of the robot
could actually make an incredible buddy
basically and in that way the r2d2 or
like a c-3po sort of thing you know
where are you taking these prisoners
these are prisoners yes where are you
taking them i am
taking them to imprison them
in prison he is taking us quiet
can you spot the boston dynamics robot
used in this star wars tv series
humanoid robots could help with a big
global problem that might surprise you
the birth rate has been declining for
decades i think that the biggest problem
the world will face in 20 years is
population collapse
it's very easy to see what the world
will look like in 20 years because
humans have a 20-year boot sequence so
like you say okay well who has won last
year okay now you know what the world
looked like in 20 years it's that easy i
absolutely agree with that the speed of
population decreasing is going to speed
up
and you call it collapse
accelerating climate cetera accelerating
collapse the big problem is that there
won't be enough young people enough
workers japan's already struggling with
too few young people to support its
aging population
its former prime minister called for
more rapid development of robots to help
overcome the problem
people in japan are already dating ai
and robots
that might be a symptom of isolation but
ai conversations are getting more
interesting gbt3 learned to talk by
reading hundreds of billions of words on
the web what do you think is organic and
what do you think is artificial good
question i think everything that was
ever made somehow stems from organic
even if it was processed to the point
most of us like to call it artificial
how about you i think that's true in
times past things felt more organic
because people used handcrafting to make
everything now everything is programmed
and let's face it
if we go way back in history you
couldn't even make a wooden spoon never
mind a skyscraper without a machine the
ai was initially thought too dangerous
to release in case it wrote huge volumes
of fake news but thousands of developers
are now working on it one man tailored
the ai to sound like his fiancee who
died 10 years ago and openai removed his
access robots are now learning to track
our eyes and move theirs more naturally
even for humans it's a tricky skill
which can have a big impact on a first
date
hi hi how are you good true alicia nice
to meet you
here their gaze is all over the place
and it was really awkward she got on
better with this guy and their gaze was
more calm and direct eye tracking's
previously been used to bring characters
to life in vr
and in experimental robots like this and
now with amica its eyes its face and its
body all react to what its seeing
look at the way it leans back
artificial muscles will create even more
realistic movements just look at the
range of motion in this hand
it's incredibly strong the weight is
seven kilograms and here it lifts 26
kilograms
it's powered by water pressure with half
as many muscles as a human hand and
sensors in each joint there are 42
muscles in the human face once they're
recreated in a robot ai can apply
infinite expressions
at the moment pre-programmed and remote
control robots get a lot of attention
like boston dynamics dancing robots or
this robot dog facing off with a cheetah
at sydney zoo
it's an experiment to see if the robot
could be used to control the cheetahs if
they got into a dangerous situation
but the real revolution is going on
behind robots eyes
so the lightsabers
apart from a bit of fun it shows two
kinds of robots atlas is incredibly
impressive but its best moves are
pre-programmed and it's largely
independent it has one life
with teslabot they're working towards a
robot that can teach itself to perform
many tasks it'll be part of a huge ai
network the robot itself is less
important and if the ai wanted to
survive it would be very hard to kill
hello
ai doesn't have to be evil to destroy
humanity
if ai has a goal and humanity just
happens to be in the way
it will destroy humanity as a matter of
course without even thinking about it no
hard feelings
it's just like if we're building a road
and an ant hill happens to be in the way
we don't hate ants we're just building a
road
and so goodbye anthill for now it's
taking jobs up to half of all u.s jobs
are expected to disappear over the next
10 years i think long-term that there
will need to be universal basic income a
stanford study of several ubi projects
found some interesting results people
who received money regularly didn't work
less they did spend more time in
education with higher school attendance
their health improved and rates of
disease dropped
basic income also allows people to take
risks like this guy who's doing amazing
things with robotics most of the world's
40 million amputees can't afford
prosthetics particularly children who
grow out of them to bring the cost down
these arms are 3d printed i have never
experienced the sensation of having
uh fingers that move like that on this
side of my body i wonder if i can just
i just got this open i have never done
that in my life what i just did some of
the world's poorest people are now
receiving a basic income through a
charity called give directly you can
support them via the link below i'd love
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