Huh. Just in time to assuage the fears of one of China's up-and-coming robotics companies:
"Founder of China’s Unitree sees lack of advanced AI as biggest roadblock to mass robot use"
From Observer, August 13 (same date as the link above):
The A.I. boom has helped make Nvidia the world’s most valuable publicly traded company with a market cap of $4.3 trillion. But CEO Jensen Huang envisions the company’s future to center around physical A.I. At its SIGGRAPH conference on Aug. 11, Nvidia unveiled a suite of A.I. models aimed at advancing physical A.I. systems, including humanoid robots and self-driving cars. The centerpiece is Cosmos Reason, a vision-language-action (VLA) model that the company says can give robots human-like reasoning abilities.
“Computer graphics and A.I. are converging to fundamentally transform robotics,” said Rev Lebaredian, Nvidia’s vice president of Omniverse and simulation technologies, in a statement. “By combining A.I. reasoning with scalable, physically accurate simulation, we’re enabling developers to build tomorrow’s robots and autonomous vehicles that will transform trillions of dollars in industries.”
Cosmos Reason is a 7-billion-parameter model that boasts an understanding of prior knowledge, physics and common sense in how to operate amongst the real world. When applied to physical A.I. systems, it will act “as the brain for deliberate, methodical decision-making,” said Nvidia in a blog post.
The model can also automate dataset curation and annotation, a capability already being used by Uber as well as Nvidia’s own robotics and self-driving teams....
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