🤖 “We get to build the future that we want. We make choices about what that future looks like. And we can choose things that are beautiful and fascinating.”
🎧 Tune into Episode 5 of the Moonshot Podcast, exploring the future of robotics: x.company/moonshotpodcast/
🧵 In early 2016, @brondmo joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab as head of the company’s AI-powered robotics moonshot. He needed to figure out what to do with the employees and tech left over from 9 robot companies that Google had acquired. wired.trib.al/T5gAyoF
Game on! I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the USA with my MAKA - Make America Koselig Again - platform. It builds on my Norwegian heritage. Koselig translates roughly as cozy, pleasant, intimate, warm... Now wouldn't that be nice!
At the intersection of art, science and technology there is a space where the unexpected, the beautiful, the provocative and sometimes the magical can emerge. @PBS new series, Confluence, explores this intersection.
medium.com/@brondmo/using-ai…#dance#confluence#robots#ai
One Robot Per Child - Just wait till AI gets a body in the real world. Exploring some out-of-the-box thought experiments for how we'll deal with the physical manifestation of AI. link.medium.com/GQWCJaWsgIb
Google’s Gemini issue is not really about woke/DEI, and everyone who is obsessing over it has failed to notice the much, MUCH bigger problem that it represents.
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1/ Nice mechatronics demo. AND, I am not impressed. All it looks like is another remote controlled, or scripted walking robot. @BostonDynamics has been doing these kind of demos for almost two decades, performing much more impressive physical feats than this.
4/ Since Tesla has been practicing "self driving" for a while, they may have some useful tech and learning to apply. Yet even building a self-driving car is "easy" compared to making autonomous robots that can perform a multitude of helpful tasks in unstructured environments.
5/ This said, I have A LOT of respect for @julianibarz and I know he knows what the real challenges in making autonomous robots that work safely alongside people, is to understand and act in the messy world we humans live in. It's 97% an AI infra challenge, 3% mechatronics.