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by ben_w 948 days ago
If that was a valid criticism of its intelligence, Stephen Hawking would have spent most of life categorised as a vegetable.

Also:

> We don't even have a full self driving system,

debatable given the accident rate of the systems we do have

> the limited systems we have are not LLMs,

they tautologically are LLMs

> and there isn't even a system on the Horizon that can drive and talk to you about the news and cook you a dinner

There's at least four cooking robots in use, and that's just narrow AI and used to show off. Here's one from 14 years back: https://youtu.be/nv7VUqPE8AE

And 5 years back: https://youtu.be/CAJJbMs0tos

And two years back: https://youtu.be/fNpBDwYLi-Q

And (uploaded) this year: https://youtu.be/r5GHWRhpzlw

There's also a few research models for general household robotics from Google and whichever of Musk's companies is doing that robot of his.

And here's another general learning-from-demonstrations system from Cambridge university from this year: https://youtu.be/EiIAN03MsRM

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Stephen Hawking lost the capacity to move because his ALS paralyzed him, not because his brain lacked the capacity to do so, come on this has to be the worst analogy of the year. Also no, driving systems are not LLMs. LLMs are large language models, no existing self driving system runs on a language model. And also, that's not what the word "tautology" means. "All bachelors are unmarried" is a tautology.
Ah, you wrote unclearly, it sounded like you were asserting that no system was an LLM rather than no driving system.

So while your claim is still false, I will accept that it isn't tautologically so.

Likewise, I am demonstrating that the actual definition you're using here is poor due to the consequence of it ruling out Stephen Hawking, and that goal means that the reason why he couldn't do things is unimportant: you still ruled him out with your standard.

Transformer models are surprisingly capable in multiple domains, so although ChatGPT hasn't got relatively many examples of labeled motor control input/output sequences and corresponding feedback values, this was my first search result for "llm robot control": https://github.com/GT-RIPL/Awesome-LLM-Robotics (note several are mentioning specifically ChatGPT).