🤖 “We get to build the future that we want. We make choices about what that future looks like. And we can choose things that are beautiful and fascinating.” 🎧 Tune into Episode 5 of the Moonshot Podcast, exploring the future of robotics: https://t.co/B1VBtPi58J

Attention: will the owner of a small blue planet with tectonic plates please attend to your vehicle. It is overheating.

🧵 In early 2016, @brondmo joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab as ​​head of the company’s AI-powered robotics moonshot. He needed to figure out what to do with the employees and tech left over from 9 robot companies that Google had acquired. https://t.co/Z6z3e4hoAC

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Game on! I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the USA with my MAKA - Make America Koselig Again - platform. It builds on my Norwegian heritage. Koselig translates roughly as cozy, pleasant, intimate, warm... Now wouldn't that be nice!

At the intersection of art, science and technology there is a space where the unexpected, the beautiful, the provocative and sometimes the magical can emerge. @PBS new series, Confluence, explores this intersection. https://t.co/FNMPugHIRw #dance #confluence #robots #ai

One Robot Per Child - Just wait till AI gets a body in the real world. Exploring some out-of-the-box thought experiments for how we'll deal with the physical manifestation of AI.

Google’s Gemini issue is not really about woke/DEI, and everyone who is obsessing over it has failed to notice the much, MUCH bigger problem that it represents. (1/n)

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Poor Bard. It just got a cool new image generation feature, but doesn’t know it. 🤓

ChatGPT, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

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5/ This said, I have A LOT of respect for @julianibarz and I know he knows what the real challenges in making autonomous robots that work safely alongside people, is to understand and act in the messy world we humans live in. It's 97% an AI+infra challenge, 3% mechatronics.

4/ Since Tesla has been practicing "self driving" for a while, they may have some useful tech and learning to apply. Yet even building a self-driving car is "easy" compared to making autonomous robots that can perform a multitude of helpful tasks in unstructured environments.

3/ What's fundamentally hard is to understand the environment, especially when it's in the messy and unstructured places where we live and work, reason about the environment and then autonomously perform a wide range of complex tasks safely and (cost) effectively among people.

2/ The real challenge in general purpose robotics today isn't making a stormtrooper-looking mechatronic marvel. In fact, I think the form factor detracts from the real challenges in this space. (Separate thread) The difficult challenge, as always, is giving it a "brain".

1/ Nice mechatronics demo. AND, I am not impressed. All it looks like is another remote controlled, or scripted walking robot. @BostonDynamics has been doing these kind of demos for almost two decades, performing much more impressive physical feats than this.

What Is AI Going To Do To Art? The History Of Photography Offers Clues.

GULAG https://t.co/EpkJvNjxev, via Kickstarter