Bill Gates Reveals The Next Big Thing In AI, Humanoid Robots Get To work
AI Summary
- Sanctuary AI Investment
- Sanctuary AI received new investment from BDC Capital and NBC.
- Total investment over $140 million.
- Not a large company but significant funding for humanoid robotics.
- Humanoid Robots and Future Applications
- Sanctuary AI’s Phoenix carbon robot is fully autonomous.
- Potential future uses in elderly care and factories.
- Humanoid robots expected to be deployed in factories first.
- Figure and BMW Group’s Spartanburg Plant
- Fully autonomous, AI-driven vision model with neural networks.
- Commercial agreement announced with BMW for January 2024.
- Robots trained in simulation for real-world tasks.
- Amazon’s Robotics
- Over 750,000 robots deployed.
- Robots can replace 24 workers each.
- Cost of $1 million per packer, with a 2-year cost recoup time.
- Human-robot collaboration in warehouses.
- Clone Robotics
- Developing highly humanlike robots.
- Focus on lifelike movements and hands.
- Potential for various applications due to human hand flexibility.
- Bill Gates on Metacognition
- Next frontier is AI metacognition: thinking about reasoning.
- Current AI lacks the ability to reflect and reason like humans.
- Importance of developing new architectures for AI.
- Eureka: AI Doctor
- World’s first AI doctor that can order labs and deliver care.
- Specializes in endocrine conditions like thyroid and diabetes.
- Reviewed by a board-certified physician before care starts.
- AI and Human Interaction
- No economic incentive for AI to wipe out humans.
- Concern about humans becoming addicted to AI-provided dopamine systems.
- Upcoming AI Developments
- Grok 2 expected in August.
- Meta’s 3D gen technology for generating 3D assets from text.
- AI agents require more precision and may need more scale for effectiveness.