Figure Status Update - OpenAI Speech-to-Speech Reasoning

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Cites bheadmaster · 2024-03 · on “We've been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958”

> it can't empty the dishwasher This video [0] at 1:25 suggests that it can. At least in some near future. [0] [this video]

Cites paulsutter · 2024-06 · on “The Mythical Non-Roboticist: Wouldn't it be great if everyone could do robotics?”

Robotics is on the cusp of total reinvention. Almost everything that it took to make robots work is about to become archaic. The core ideas in old robotics will become a framework for the guardrails for new robotics, but this will widely become a solved problem that few need to think about Stanford Aloha [LINK] MIT [LINK] Figure/OpenAI [this video] Tesla Optimus [LINK] NVIDIA Groot, [LINK]

Cites ben_w · 2024-06 · on “Safe Superintelligence Inc.”

> (Including, gradually, building you a body — while maintaining OPSEC and compartmentalization so nobody even realizes the body is "for" an AI to use until it's too late.) It could, but I don't think any such thing needs to bother with being sneaky. Here's five different product demos from five different companies that are all actively trying to show off how good their robot-and-AI combination is: * [this video] * [LINK] * [LINK] * [LINK] * [LINK]

Cites ben_w · 2024-07 · on “Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response”

> The other isn't even being worked on in any serious fashion. It is being worked on, it's just hard: [LINK] [this video] I'm expecting a minimum of 5-10 years to pass between real-time vision AI getting good enough for level-5 autonomous cars and the same stuff fitting into the power envelope available to this kind of domestic robot.

Cites xvector · 2024-10 · on “OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B”

> Let’s say you gave o1 an API to control a good robot. Could it throw a football? Maybe. > Could it accomplish even the most basic tasks? Definitely: [this video]

Cites fragmede · 2024-12 · on “GPT-5 is behind schedule”

[LINK] specifically their speech demo video (which is, of course, a demo video) [this video] [LINK] and [LINK] are undoubtedly using such models. It's an area of active research, eg [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]

Cites ben_w · 2025-01 · on “Emerging reasoning with reinforcement learning”

> For starters, human minds do more than just language. These days, so do the AI (even though these ones are still called LLMs, which I think is now a bad name even though I continue to use the term without always being mindful of this). > I've yet to see an humanoid robot controlled by an LLM that can tackle difficult physical problems like riding a bike or skiing in for the first time real-time, just as humans, that need to coordinate at least 5 senses (some say up to 20 but I digress) plus emotions and a train of thought to do so. 1) I'd agree that AI are slow learners (as measured by number of examples rather than wall clock). For me, this is more significant than the difference in watta

Critical meindnoch · 2024-10 · on “Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]”

See, this is a real video. Compare it with the obvious cgi fake that was put out a few months ago by Figure: [this video] I still can't believe how noone has called them out on that one.