The Robot Classroom

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Robotics Transformer 2 is a vision language action model that now can connect some of the concepts that learn on the Internet to robot actions. The robots are not really connecting at all levels, they're actually transferring knowledge from humans into them. We've been working on AI at large and with AI, as you may know, everything easy is hard and everything hard is easy. But actually getting to play with toys like a five-year-old would do is still extremely challenging. That's the real test of robotics.

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Plus: a trip to Google’s robotics lab, where artificial intelligence models are creating breakthroughs.

Additional reading:

Casey breaks down Twitter’s rebrand.
The launch of Worldcoin — and the story of how it recruited the first half a million users.
Kevin’s column is a deep dive into Google’s new robotics model, which melds A.I. with robots.