Friday April 26 2024: Israel continues to push globalist robot agenda.
Israeli AI scientists create humanoid robot that 'thinks' Its way through tasks.
Critics say that robot created to replace humans with no consideration given as to the ethics of the AI involved or how it can expand, the danger to humans or the unemployment/economic disruption that they will cause.
The humanoid robot, Mentee is able to listen to voice commands to complete a range of different tasks. The MenteeBot uses large language AI models (LLMs) to "think" through tasks from start to finish, making its own decisions along the way. The robot is 5'8 in height, weighs about 154 pounds.
Israeli businessman Amnon Shashua, who co-founded Mobileye has announced the launch of a new humanoid robot which has artificial intelligence ie. ability to "think" through requests. Amnon Shashua said: “We are on the cusp of a convergence of computer vision, natural language understanding, strong and detailed simulators, and methodologies on and for transferring from simulation to the real world,” the founder says in a release.
“At Mentee Robotics we see this convergence as the starting point for designing the future general-purpose bi-pedal robot that can move everywhere (as a human) with the brains to perform household tasks and learn through imitation tasks it was not previously trained for.”
The video below shows Mentee at work. In one, the robot is able to determine the location of a kitchen table in an office environment, place fruit in a box without damaging it, and move the box to a specific location. Mentee has a "voice" that the robot uses to communicate when tasks are nearly complete or to affirm that it's heard the task. It's able to navigate its environments without them being pre-programmed, as Mentee uses algorithms to map out the 3D physical space around it in real-time, determines its own relative location, and is able to avoid obstacles as a result.
The robot is also able to hold and pass plates and other household objects without breaking them, will change the way it walks when it's carrying heavier objects, and can walk sideways or bend its "knees" and "elbows." Mentee has some tread on its feet, which are otherwise flat, but it's unclear how the robot might fare on uneven terrain.
Mentee is designed for warehouses, homes, and other indoor spaces. The startup's website delineates between a "domestic assistant" version and a warehouse version. Mentee will be able to carry up to 55 pounds and run for up to five hours on a single charge. The house helper version will be able to handle tasks like doing laundry, placing cutlery and dishes for meals, and learn to complete other chores in real-time, Mentee Robotics says.
MenteeBot's creators claim their bot can essentially tap into "unlimited" training data because it uses the simulation-to-reality (Sim2Real) machine learning method, which means the bot is trained in a simulated environment and those learnings are then applied to its real-world tasks.
Ynet News gives the warning 'Until they become self aware;. Well, what does that mean? That means that the robots will have self will and volition. The humanoid robots will have the ability to think any thoughts humans can, but without our moral compass. Once our interests diverge, robots could pose a very serious danger.
Will the humanoid robots pass the Turing test, named for the British mathematician Alan Turing, who once suggested that a machine might be said to “think” if a human could not tell its responses from those of another human.
Israeli scientists mixing AI with robotics is dangerous. Warnings about the dangers of AI becoming sentient or self aware have been reported for quite a while. “The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people.... I thought it was way off…. Obviously, I no longer think that,” Geoffrey Hinton, one of Google's top artificial intelligence scientists, also known as “the godfather of AI,” said after he quit his job in April 2023 so that he can warn about the dangers of this technology.
A 2023 survey of AI experts found that 36 percent fear that AI development may result in a “nuclear-level catastrophe.” Almost 28,000 people have signed on to an open letter written by the Future of Life Institute, including Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk, the CEOs of several AI companies and many other prominent technologists, asking for a six-month pause or a moratorium on new advanced AI development.
This rapid acceleration of AI development promises will result in “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), and when that happens, AI will be able to improve itself with no human intervention. It will do this in the same way that, for example, Google’s AlphaZero AI learned how to play chess better than even the very best human or other AI chess players in just nine hours from when it was first turned on. It achieved this feat by playing itself millions of times over.
See the MenteeBot in this video:
Martin Blackham Israel First TV Program www.israelfirst.org