ALPHABET has revealed plans to equip its Everyday Robot with language-understanding capabilities.
Google’s parent company Alphabet is wanting to combine robotics with AI language understanding skills, The Verge reported.
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The ambitions of the tech giant to create new jobs are fueling its latest move. “helper”Robots that understand natural language
This would allow the Everyday Robots of Tomorrow to better understand and respond to human commands.
Alphabet unveiled the artificial intelligence technology (AI) dubbed PaLM Tuesday, per CNET.
Google is said to have been using the technology in a kitchen environment to replicate everyday situations.
You can ask a PaLM/SayCan robot for a bottle of water, or help you clean up spilled drinks.
After the bot has processed the command it may respond by taking a towel or sponge from your kitchen.
The robots can also open drawers and locate snacks.
PaLM’s abstraction capabilities enable it to see that different colors can metaphorically refer to different terrains.
“As we improve the language models, the robotic performance also improves,”Karol Hausman, a Google senior research scientist who demonstrated the technology, said.
These are the results
Google claims that PaLM-SayCan robots were capable of correctly responding to user instructions 84% of the time.
They were also able execute commands at a rate of around 74 percent.
It was used to train the language system using multilingual documents and books, Wikipedia articles and conversations.
Hausman said that testing the technology outside of a laboratory setting is the next step.
“AI has been very successful in digital worlds, but it still has to make a significant dent solving real problems for real people in the real physical world,”Vincent Vanhoucke was a Google distinguished scientist, and the robotics lab director.
“We think it’s a really great time right now for AI to migrate into the real world.”