Artificial-intelligence company Google DeepMind has put a version of its most advanced large language model (LLM), Gemini, into robots. Using the model, machines can perform some tasks ' such as 'slam dunking' a miniature basketball through a desktop hoop ' despite never having watched another robot do the action, says the firm. The company is among several working to harness the artificial intelligence (AI) advances that power chatbots to create general-purpose robots. The approach also comes with safety concerns, given such models' propensity to generate wrong and harmful outputs. The hope is to create machines that are intuitive to operate and can tackle a range of physical tasks, without relying on human supervision or being preprogrammed. By connecting to Gemini's robotic models, a developer could enhance their robot so that it comprehends 'natural language and now understands the physical world in a lot more detail than before,' says Carolina Parada, who leads the Google...
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