The machine learning technique that taught notorious text generator GPT-3 to write can also help robots make sense of spoken commands.
. They created a new program that uses the text processing capabilities of PaLM to translate a spoken phrase or command into a sequence of appropriate actions such as “open drawer” or “pick up chips” that the robot can perform.
PaLM’s language skills can allow a robot to make sense of relatively abstract commands. When a robot arm was tasked with moving colored blocks and bowls around, Google research scientist Andy Zeng asked it to “imagine that my wife is the blue block and I am the green block. Bring us closer together.” The robot responded by moving the blue block to sit next to the green block.
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