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DARPA-Funded Robots Learning To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos
jfruh writes Once you've built humanoid-shaped robots, how do you get them to move and act like humans? Well, one way to teach them how to do it is to have them watch one of the greatest repository of recorded human experience ever: YouTube. Robots in a Maryland lab have learned how to prepare meals by watching and processing a slew of cooking videos, one of YouTube's most popular genres.
These types of robots will never replace humans in the fast food industry because high school drop-outs and liberal arts masters grads will always be cheaper. Might make a nice bartender on the long trip to Mars.
Yes, yes, I know. "Machine Learning" ...
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This is the worst of what could be invented in robotics. If such robot can cut the meat with a kitchen knife, what happens to humanity when it learns from head cutting terrorist videos?
... can they learn to reproduce by watching free porno?
This seems like way too big of a leap. They can process videos to understand what ingredients are being used, how they're prepared and how they're cooked? I don't think so. If they could do that they could learn all sort of things besides cooking. There must be some small accomplishment that's being blown way out of proportion to "learn to cook by watching videos"
If climate change and the next ice age we're inevitably bringing down on ourselves doesn't destroy human civilization, robots that learn how to behave by watching YouTube certainly will.
They don't have to reproduce, they just need to replace your whining S.O.
I think that's how my wife learned
A bullet may have your name on it, but artillery is addressed to " Whom It May concern"
First of all, thanks for a lot of cool things, the internet being possibly the greatest.
Now, since they are a "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency", where is OARPA? You know, the Offense Advanced Research Projects Agency?
Somehow, I think there's not one -- and it's not hidden for secrecy reasons. I'm not pointing out that because I'm against them. I even recognize to deal with certain folks which have been asking for lead for some time now.
But I think, since we don't like Russian being hypocrites (or the Chinese, though less so), it would be nice if the western world would be more transparent...
And BTW, if robots are watching the internet, we might as well start writing our wills...
We really should be careful of what video our young impressionable robots are watching.
Only a matter of time before a nature/firmware versus nurture/experience debate becomes a thing for machines too.
They just horribly misinterpreted the book "To Serve Man"
Do we need a clock down to the singularity clock? And, if so, what time should it be set to?
When the terminators finally arrive, they'll be naked, hot and serving bacon.
I, for one, welcome our new sexy, gastrointestinal over... ladies
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Yea i mistyped "cock" instead of "cook" in the search field from which videos he should learn....
It's a Cookbook!
well under the gop healthcare plan you may want to be in prison if you need anything high cost and you have an preexisting condition
what about viewing some braking bad?
Title.
Just sayin.
Let's hope it doesn't find 'How To Basic'.
This is soo amazing and cool!!!
That's a concept which might end up being a reality. Can't wait for a robot cook.
So what happens when they start watching porn?
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
So the robots will never be able to produce a complete meal as they will try to grab something under the counter "to save time" and always come back empty handed?
Oh, thank goodness you still haven't figured out how to use the subject line, Joe McDraggin', or I wouldn't have been able to easily ignore you!
Can't wait to see what yummy meals these robots will prepare after watching 'Will it blend' on youtube!
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
They cook cats.
Table-ized A.I.
I, for one, would love to watch these robots perform after watching some Swedish Chef videos.
Absence of proof != proof of absence.
It's a cookbook!
Well US fast food is considered unhealthy and it is distributed around the world causing obesity in those countries. However, I would never thought that they now plan to weaponize this. How mean of you! Why else should the DARPA sponsor robot cooks? True there are a lot of college and high school drop outs who are equally qualified, but their language skills are limited. If lucky they speak Spanish, but Latin America is already conquered. More important are India (which speak a different English, China, and Arabic countries).
well under the gop healthcare plan you may want to be in prison if you need anything high cost and you have an preexisting condition
Except these days, most prisons are privately owned and run under government contracts. Their track records speak volumes. They're not gonna spend a dime they think they don't have to to stay profitable. See this, this, and just for the hell of it, this. Further examples can be googled of course.
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
Robots have been preparing food for decades. How else do you explain airplane and hospital meals?
Wouldn't it be easier to use YouTube videos to train robot cats?
Honda ASIMO + maid uniform with cat ears + robotic AI that learns to cook by watching Youtube videos = practically useful waifu
I guess the initial "dystopia" I painted in this video parable where everyone ends up in prison just to get food to survive after robots take all the jobs is even worse than anticipated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"The Richest Man in the World: A parable about robotics, abundance, technological change, unemployment, happiness, and a basic income."
And of course, once you have AIs running the prisons and robot guards, who knows what they will do?
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Wonder if these robots will start watching the old youtube series I think was called something like how to basic. Making scrambled eggs with the shells and dumping it on the counter. Would love to see how it handles that data.
I eagerly await a future where I collect wigs, bow-ties and waistcoats for my robot bartender.
30 years ago, people scratched their heads and said "Why would you ever need a computer at home?" and the best answer of the day was always "You can put all your recipes into a database"......well, it looks like the day is here that the Internet has fulfilled the vision....
Last time I looked, there was a tiny bit more to cooking than the mere ability to manipulate the utensils. But I suppose if we're talking about fast food there may not be after all...
Can't wait until they to the HOWTOBASIC channel.
I wouldn't recommend "My Drunk Kitchen" to teach your robot good cooking habits.
but they have no sense of taste, so they use way too much salt.
"How to Serve Humans" will take on a whole new meaning.
I recommend the silly walk sketch for teaching the robots how to walk.
I hope they've been watching her try to cook.