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by slimebot80 120 days ago
I assume this is highly staged as a set routine?

No less impressive, but is it likely each robot autonomously learned a routine? Or just got programmed for a very exact act?

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I'm not so sure what this question means... are you asking if China has AGI right now? I'm quite sure all similar performances done by humans are all staged.
Where human performances are staged, the human still needs be capable of learning the choreography. There's a difference between a robot learning the routine vs having it hardwired.
Perhaps improv theater is the better test for AGI
LLMs are already way too prepared for "Yes and..." improv, given GPT's ridiculous need to click-bait the end of every conversation.
Based on where other companies are right now, it's probably a pre programmed routine, but the robots autonomously balance themselves. Anything beyond that would be quite a large leap, and I think Unitree would've gloated about it way more outside of the gala. The robots' speed and consistency are still impressive, though.
The learning here is about what servor motors to control how much. But the performance was 100% staged and preprogrammed. Still impressive.