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It sure seems like the Optimus robots at Tesla's event were under human control (electrek.co)

submitted 3 weeks ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure this story was blown out of proportion and exaggerated. These people were training and validating the automated systems not watching the cameras 24/7.

That's how AI is trained, manual intervention. It wasn't working as well as they hoped, but it wasn't humans watching cameras in real time.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133029/amazon-just-walk-out-cashierless-ai-india

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It sounds like the best way to bootstrap a machine learning system. You generate the data the system will be seeing in production along with the proper labels. Then in a later stage you can start doing reinforcement learning.

The problem is the lying about it.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I honestly don't see an issue with it. These robots aren't for sale, there's no estimated sale date, nor are they likely in production in any meaningful sense. Yes, he gave a price range, but that's obviously aspirational and not confirmed seeing as there's no expected release date whatsoever.

From the video I watched, it seemed obvious the robots were limited to a handful of interactions, such as:

hand gift bag to person - it certainly seemed to go through a certain routine each time, but the person seemed to be able to point at the one they want
rock paper scissors
fill and hand drink to someone (didn't see it in the video)
dance according to some choreography

There certainly seemed to be some AI happening (i.e. detect which bag, let go of gift, etc), but it seemed like a very on-rails experience.

And I got that from watching it live, not looking at someone dissect what was going on. Having a handler there to push the robot into one of a handful of pre-programmed routines seems absolutely reasonable.