Social RoboticsBoston Dynamics turns Spot into a chatty ChatGPT tour guide
A demo gave the robot dog speech recognition, a voice and switchable personalities, along with some telling mistakes.
Boston Dynamics connected a Spot robot to ChatGPT and OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition so it could guide visitors around its offices and answer questions. The robot described what it saw using a captioning model, moved its gripper in time with its speech like a puppet mouth, and could adopt personas, with sarcastic ones working especially well. Problems included delays of six seconds or more and occasional made-up answers. The experiment showed how cheaply an LLM can give a non-social robot a social persona, and also the limits of doing so.
Source: The Register
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