I'm getting a bit tired of these disguised adverts.

Here's how non robotics engineers used AI to do a short robot integration task faster than other non robotics engineers without AI.

Where "better" mostly means faster, and who knows what happens on longer horizons, with actual robotics experts, robustness requirements, or tasks where the hard part is control rather than API spelunking.

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dragonwriter 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I'm getting a bit tired of these disguised adverts.

Its not disguised. Corporate blogs exist overtly to promote the company and its work.

Disguised promotions where notionally independent media publish promotional pieces as news concealing that they were fed to them by party whose products they promote area thing, but this is just the most overt undisguised promotion.

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rvz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Its not disguised. Corporate blogs exist overtly to promote the company and its work.

It is. That makes the "research" heavily biased. If xAI did the same thing, with Elon Musk screaming about that it is "AGI", you would not believe them at all.

Given that the work is not independent, such articles of this "research" can easily be manipulated or the results being massaged to promote the company positively.

But when others outside of the company try out the work or reproduce it, they get different results. So of course we continue to hear unverified research especially in AI when the frontier labs do not release their architecture, weights at all.

So in this case with labs raised with VC-funded cash, the incentives are clear and I would not straight up believe results from the first party source unless multiple sources outside of the company have verified it.

	▲	skeledrew an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You or some other interested person could go do that experiment and publish the results. It shouldn't be hard to figure out what hardware exactly they were using and get a copy, and the prompt also doesn't have to be exactly what they used, just similar enough in spirit. See just how similar/different the outcome is.
	▲	dozerly 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You’re writing with the assumption that this is “research” in the first place. This is advertising first, “research” second.

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skeledrew an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Disguised ad or not, I learned that LLMs have the emergent capability of learning to complete tasks in physical space, without being fine-tuned for it.

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