The Robot's Vision of the World

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The robot is talking to the language model right now. They're like going back and forth. One thing that we see is that the semantic concepts seem to transfer well. There's still sometimes some gaps when we jump to the actual full control of it. So maybe since we have this archival out here, we can try some sports. Maybe from these, what's a pick up sports player or something? Oh yeah, like Lionel Messi. This is Lionel Messi. Please don't actually pick up Lionel Messi, that would be extremely disruptive to his season in Miami.

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