Google has taken a new leap forward in AI, building its most advanced natural language processing into a helper robot that can understand (and act on) normal human speech. CNET’s Claire Reilly speaks to AI expert Stephen Shankland about what this tech means for the future of humanity.
0:00 Intro
0:38 How the Robot Works
1:17 PaLM-SayCan AI explained
2:14 Robot Demos: How Does the Robot Understand Colours and Objects?
3:01 The Robot Builds a Hamburger
4:06 How Does It Compare to Other Moving and Talking Robots?
5:11 Google Robot Home Helper vs. Amazon Astro
5:52 Google Robot vs. Boston Dynamics
6:34 The Future of Google Robotics and AI
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E. v. K.
August 21, 2022 at 9:36 pm
I love it and I want a service Robot
dwcola
August 21, 2022 at 9:41 pm
I have no idea why a Multi Billion Dollar Company cannot incorporate all of the current advancements into one scenario to give the AI system it’s best ability to succeed. For example…, Imagine that you had no ears, no skin or tactile touch, no abillity to sense temperature or humitidy, no smell etc. It would be darn near impossible to function in the real world. We have the synthetic skin, biosensors for humidity, temperature, wind, smell, pressure, hearing etc. etc. They need to incorporate every last physical sense into the machine to give it the best chance of understanding it’s environment and then understanding what it is and how it relates to that environment. Right now, they’re sending a steel can down the hallway with vision. How can that ever succeed… Come on Google and the like. Get it together.
McKay
August 21, 2022 at 11:17 pm
That’s gonna cost too much. Any company could do that. But who is going to buy this 10 million dollar robot? Maybe the military. But that’s not everyday robotics. You need to build a robot with minimal cost so everyday people could one day afford it
dwcola
August 21, 2022 at 11:28 pm
@McKay Not about the money. They have that. This isn’t about profit. It’s about R and D. If there is to be a breakthrough, there has to be real world tangible, biological connectivity. Without it, the Synthetic is doomed to a dark room
Poogle Chen
August 21, 2022 at 9:48 pm
I’m glad they only gave it one arm and wheels, so that it’s confined by stairs
Brian Hartman
August 21, 2022 at 9:57 pm
So they took AI and gave it a body….
Not big James Cameron fans, I guess?
gmasterdude
August 21, 2022 at 10:04 pm
If it’s as good as google home it will be helpful 70 per cent of the time and really frustrating the other 30 per cent.
undertow
August 21, 2022 at 10:06 pm
The working poor all about to lose their jobs
MoMo's
August 21, 2022 at 10:13 pm
They coming for your jobs. 😬😬😬
bahcorp
August 21, 2022 at 10:20 pm
😍 This it’s terrifying we must stop the attempts against human condition.
Michael Gregg
August 21, 2022 at 10:27 pm
When we are all out of a jobs, how can we afford a robot?
Romeo Marroquin
August 21, 2022 at 10:29 pm
Is it terrifying? Movies made people scared and they don’t know the first thing about robots.
Joshua
August 21, 2022 at 10:32 pm
Car detailing robots of the future 🤔 🤣😂😂
Gabe Darrett
August 21, 2022 at 10:43 pm
society: Superintelligent AI will kill us all!
AI in reality: 4:04
timmo971
August 21, 2022 at 10:50 pm
Can we just agree that a burger with a plastic bottle of sauce in it is just not just wrong but a whole new level of wrong? Go home, try again.
Nick
August 21, 2022 at 10:52 pm
Can we replace fast food workers to get better service and cheaper prices!
Jameel
August 21, 2022 at 10:55 pm
Great video. I didn’t realize PALM was so sophisticated. Very interesting.
DigitalXrisXross
August 21, 2022 at 10:56 pm
😎🍻🤖
AJ Joshi
August 21, 2022 at 11:08 pm
0:19 Palm Satan?
youxkio
August 22, 2022 at 12:16 am
Well, I still would not trust it to play with my balls.
Two Guys and a Car
August 22, 2022 at 12:20 am
Why is there a seasoning grinder on it?
《Freedom》
August 22, 2022 at 12:27 am
Kill it while you can
Ash Eiji
August 22, 2022 at 12:31 am
Seriously, you’re gonna deplete the Earth’s resources destroying the eco-system in the process just to have a robot get you a cup of water?
E.O
August 22, 2022 at 12:34 am
That’s exciting and a bit weird at the same time! i mean the way they’re gonna live among us!
Antonio Butcher
August 22, 2022 at 1:08 am
a robot that recognizes blue balls???
Ethan Blake
August 22, 2022 at 1:28 am
I’m all for the advancement of basic technologies and I guess this is a good platform for development but in terms of the use case shown here, nobody needs this, robotic home servants is not what humanity needs from the technological sector, how about using AI for developing low cost universal manufacturing systems for decentralizing and localizing production of products allowing greater diversity and quality to emerge in the market, or something like that
zenmasterjay
August 22, 2022 at 1:28 am
Don’t worry about the exposed high rpm metallic thing.
troyBORG
August 22, 2022 at 6:26 pm
The way it picks up the pop can and turns it upside down. They would need to fix that, if you had an already opened can and you asked the robot to bring you it so you could finish it.
MINZU
August 22, 2022 at 6:42 pm
This is common sense AI. Wow!
Patrick Felipe
August 22, 2022 at 7:04 pm
Per the engineer – that robot will be sentient and will become the T1000
Claire Reilly
August 22, 2022 at 7:40 pm
I’m loving reading the comments on this video – some of you genuinely excited, some of you genuinely terrified… and some of you a bit of both! It’s interesting that we’ve had the language processing side for a while, but when we put it in a physical form like a roaming robot, it really shifts our perceptions of the technology 🤖
ölümsüzler
August 22, 2022 at 8:14 pm
artificial intelligence devil
Michael Richardson
August 22, 2022 at 11:11 pm
@ölümsüzler I’m an arm-chair philosepher who believes that “conciousness” is little more than a working-memory powerful enough to make long-term decisions; not loosing a sense of self from moment to moment, and a life of memories to build on. I’d argue that a dream is conciousness without the real-world inputs (senses). By my definition, we’ve achieved artificial conciousness, with the memory of the Internet, and the bias of those who have the most access and time on the internet. That’s not something I want to make too many decisions for me or have the ability to cause me physical, financial, or social harm (concepts that might yield different results in AI than we would prefer.)
Read my Lips
August 22, 2022 at 7:46 pm
What’s that spinning drum for
Kyle Snage
August 23, 2022 at 12:04 am
It’s LiDAR. Distance measurement with lasers
Mark Layton
August 23, 2022 at 12:06 am
Proximity sensors or razor blades
Korsalath
August 22, 2022 at 7:50 pm
I like that they are speeding up their robots. The previous robots have been torturous
Gabriel Njaka - Ex Machina
August 22, 2022 at 7:58 pm
Facebook: write that down! write that down!
D Jaquith
August 22, 2022 at 7:59 pm
Get them into McDonald’s and FF ASAP .. it would be nice to have an order correct for once!
dzl999
August 22, 2022 at 8:00 pm
First self awareness thought… “I need a better job”
tantzer
August 22, 2022 at 8:12 pm
The hamburger demo was not preplanned. So it was lucky that two buns, a patty, and a ketchup happened to be close at hand.
Patrick W
August 22, 2022 at 8:26 pm
You let the robot read DUNE?! Yeah I’m sure it’s not gonna have any issues with the BUTLERIAN JIHAD!!!!
Ken
August 22, 2022 at 8:40 pm
I like the idea of having a robot companion which supports me in the homework, educates me and my family with school/university education content, diverse information and entertains me with nice conversation about everyday things. But i doubt, that those will be affordable for people with a midrange income. Only the high society might be wealthy enough to get one or two of these for their house. 10 – 20 years time window … i even think that those new robot buddies will be available a little earlier.
Elon Musk and his company Tesla will also get in this market soon and their self driving car A.I. will be easily able to handle the terrain inside a house. Navigation is not the only problem to overcome, thats for sure, but i am sure Elon Musks company already works on software for a supportive A.I. in any imaginable way inside and outside of a house.
The only thing that is absolute necessary is that they obey the 3 laws of Asimows law for robots.
And those laws must be protected from overriding…because mankind is evil and will try to disengage those to abuse the robots for crimes vs. humans.
EyeQ
August 22, 2022 at 8:58 pm
This is or will be like a iphone moment. A lot of firms or people will do a lot of things til the breakthrougt happend. Like in the early days of the internet or just before the iphone. A lot of good ideas will emerge and will be swooopt away be the next big thing. To be successfull you don´t need to do one thing right, you need to do 10 things and build and system around it. And i should work. Not all the time. there are updates for. But at leased you should have the next siri, google assisent with real world value. Robots will happen, the question is and will be, will we accept them and will we trust then and we be able to affort thenm.
Mike Pfeifer
August 22, 2022 at 9:14 pm
Astro is a waste. Who put the soda into the robot’s drink holder? They could have taken the drink far faster.
Ghost
August 22, 2022 at 9:56 pm
I hope in 20-30 years from now we will have robot nannies. I will get one for my parents when they get really old and can’t take care of themselves anymore. I don’t want them to be in a retirement home.
Brad Kolar
August 22, 2022 at 10:40 pm
For some reason I thought Google had abandoned robotics ambitions. Super cool to see they still have these products in the works 🙂
I
August 22, 2022 at 10:51 pm
People who just graduated and need some jobs will have a huge issue
Michael Richardson
August 22, 2022 at 11:04 pm
The more we learn to depend on technology as a race, the more at-risk we are when the technology isn’t availble. As I raise my kids with screen’s in front of them, able to answer any question they can think of, I think it’s awesome for my kids, but then what about those who come after? It’s not a question of if, but WHEN a solar flair hits us hard enough to fry the satellites and maybe even our tech on the ground. As much as I LOVE the idea of an ever-helpful and knowledeble robot, especially one that can recall my photos/videos; the more I think that should be my future, after my kids have their own, and so long as such tech can exist; not something any younger, able-bodied person should try for or else we might cross that invisible point-of-no-return that sends us the way of the character humans in Wall-E. 😛
Elite Driver
August 22, 2022 at 11:20 pm
Disgusting
William Petersen
August 23, 2022 at 12:20 am
We are getting closer and closer to human extinction. This might look all good and well for NOW, but this is just a step forward for A.I. to having a suitable body and to have “Self Awareness”. Why don’t companies like Google design robotics to be an extension that will allow a Paraplegic to walk or do things on their own?
Jg235
August 23, 2022 at 12:59 am
I don’t think we have nothing to worry still. Not even with AI robotics is going anywhere fast.
Mark Furst
August 23, 2022 at 1:03 am
Could I get one and send it to work in my place?
Keith Valentin Cardenas
August 23, 2022 at 1:09 am
I dunno but I liked the “combining the football team with the chess club” 😅😅