{"id":144579,"date":"2022-08-22T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/google-gave-its-helper-robots-ai-language-skills-to-better-work-with-humans"},"modified":"2022-08-22T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:24:06","slug":"google-gave-its-helper-robots-ai-language-skills-to-better-work-with-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/google-gave-its-helper-robots-ai-language-skills-to-better-work-with-humans","title":{"rendered":"Google Gave Its Helper Robots AI Language Skills to Better Work With Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-gave-its-helper-robots-ai-language-skills-to-better-work-with-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People have been dreaming of robot butlers for decades, but one of the biggest barriers has been getting machines to understand our instructions. Google has started to close the gap by marrying the latest language AI with state-of-the-art robots.<\/p>\n<p>Human language is <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/03\/04\/why-hasnt-ai-mastered-language-translation\/\">often ambiguous<\/a>. How we talk about things is highly context-dependent, and it typically requires an innate understanding of how the world works to decipher what we\u2019re talking about. So while robots can be trained to carry out actions on our behalf, conveying our intentions to them can be tricky.<\/p>\n<p>If they have any ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/10\/04\/a-computer-can-now-translate-languages-as-well-as-a-human\/\">understand language<\/a> at all, robots are typically designed to respond to short, specific instructions. More opaque directions like \u201cI need something to wash these chips down\u201d are likely to go over their heads, as are complicated multi-step requests like \u201cCan you put this apple back in the fridge and fetch the chocolate?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been dreaming of robot butlers for decades, but one of the biggest barriers has been getting machines to understand our instructions. Google has started to close the gap by marrying the latest language AI with state-of-the-art robots. Human language is often ambiguous. How we talk about things is highly context-dependent, and it typically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}