These images provide clues as to how ChatGPT will look if its creators make a physical version of their hugely popular artificial intelligence.
The maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, has invested in 1X, a company that makes humanoid robots designed to do human jobs after the success of the online chatbot.
The robot, named EVE, has manipulators which can pick up objects and pack and unpack boxes – and is designed to work alongside human beings.
OpenAI’s Startup Fund led an investment round that raised $23.5 million for the 1X robot, which is set to hit the market this summer.
The investment fuels OpenAI’s rivalry with Elon Musk’s Tesla bot, which has yet to begin production.
The maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, invested in 1X, a company that makes humanoid robots designed to do human jobs. The humanoid is named EVE
OpenAI’s Startup Fund led an investment round that raised $23.5 million for the 1X robot, which is set to hit the market this summer
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s COO and manager of the OpenAI Startup Fund, said in a statement: ‘1X is at the forefront of augmenting labor through the use of safe, advanced technologies in robotics.
‘The OpenAI Startup Fund believes in the approach and impact that 1X can have on the future of work.’
1X intends to use the funds to scale up the manufacturing of its first commercially available android EVE in Norway and North America – and build another bipedal android, NEO.
Experts have suggested that EVE and 1x’s other robot, NEO, could replace labor or nursing workers.
EVE is designed to move and manipulate objects gently, interact with soft objects like humans, and complete repetitive tasks.
The humanoid is controlled using VR, with a robot operator in a control center looking through the android’s camera ‘eyes.’
The company is currently recruiting artificial intelligence experts, according to its recruitment page that reads: ‘If you’re smart, kind, driven, and you want to build androids, join us.’
Many experts believe large language models such as ChatGPT will transform the way we use and interact with robots.
Eve is capable of human-like movements and is built to do laboring and caring jobs
The Norwegian company is also working on a robot called NEO. Experts have suggested that EVE and 1x’s other robot, NEO, could replace labor or nursing workers
Speaking to DailyMail.com George Strakhov, chief strategy officer at advertising company DDB EMEA, said, ‘Generative AI is going to be absolutely transformative for the two problems we currently have with robots – that they are quite dumb, and they don’t always understand what we want.
‘Large Language Models (like GPT-4) are exceptional at complex reasoning. So when robots are powered by LLMs – they will be able to act much more dynamically, respond to the environment changes, plan ahead etc.
‘So they won’t get stuck in a scenario rut, but instead will be able to ‘think through’ the steps that need to be taken for any arbitrary goal that the user asks them to achieve.
In the future, we will control robots simply by talking to them – and they will talk back, Strakhov believes.
‘LLMs also make the dream of Linguistic User Interface possible. If we can speak to our robots and they understand us and can reply back – it will expand the types situations in which they are useful,’ said Strakhov.
‘And realistic voice synthesis as well as face/emotions synthesis will enable them to communicate with us much more ‘naturally’, making it comfortable for more people (including old/young) to interface with robots – the same they they interface with other humans.’
Earlier this year, Microsoft – which invested $10 billion in OpenAI – showed off researchers using ChatGPT to control robots.
In response to simple spoken commands, such as ‘Find out where I can warm up my lunch,’ a robot was able to home in on a microwave oven from across a room.
Microsoft said, ‘We want to help people interact with robots more easily, without needing to learn complex programming languages or details about robotic systems.
‘The key challenge here is teaching ChatGPT how to solve problems considering the laws of physics, the context of the operating environment, and how the robot’s physical actions can change the state of the world.’
Last year Tesla CEO showed off a walking Tesla robot – variously called Optimus or the Tesla Bot – at the company’s 2022 AI day.
Musk showed off what he described as a ‘rough development robot,’ which walked without any support at the event in Palo Alto.
Musk has said that he expects the robots to be on sale in three to five years.
The EVE robot from 1X would be the first widely available humanoid android.
By Daily Mail Online, April 19, 2023
