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DARPA-Funded Robots Learning To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos

Posted by samzenpus on from the perfect-meal dept.

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.

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  1. cOOKING? rEALLY? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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    1. Re:cOOKING? rEALLY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      They have said this about computers and every new technology that has come along. The truth is, eventually it does replace us in the workforce. Now we have to figure out how we are going to value our contribution to society.

    2. Re: cOOKING? rEALLY? by MisterSquid · · Score: 2

      How many people would buy the "Kate" model just so they can say "Kate, make me a sammich"?

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  2. Meet the Meat... by chrysosphinx · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

    1. Re:Meet the Meat... by sumdumass · · Score: 4, Funny

      We get in our mech suits and seek and destroy. That is of course after several years calling it work place violance rather than robot terrorism.

    2. Re:Meet the Meat... by OzPeter · · Score: 2

      This is the worst of what could be invented in robotics.

      You think that's bad? Wait until they start watching old twilight zone episodes and start writing books with titles like "To serve man".

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    3. Re:Meet the Meat... by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 2

      Easy way to neutralize them - just have them watch online pr0n for a while.

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  3. *sigh* by eagee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:*sigh* by gman003 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Let's hope they didn't program it to read the comments.

  4. Re:Big Deal? by TWX · · Score: 2

    Episodes of My Drunk Kitchen don't count...

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  5. What if it watches HowToBasic? by SophiaKadaj · · Score: 2

    Title.