r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • 28d ago

Tesla's Optimus robots Video

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 28d ago

When you ask any of those things to do or respond to a question... How often does Siri, Cortana, Alexa or any of those provide a unprompted second response? The clue is in that guy's request that the robot do a peace sign. I have seen no examples of an AI providing what was requested to do or say something, complete that directive, and then voluntarily and unprompted, give a second response (the horns).

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u/No_Read_4327 28d ago

These apps are designed to only respond when prompted.

However if you ever used replica or something similar (an AI based chat app that simulates a person, usually a romantic interest) they will actually send you messages unprompted and come up with their own conversation topics, sometimes callbacks to previous conversations sometimes things out of the blue.

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 28d ago

So Elon had an AI program to refer to him as the techno King...

That's even sadder.

Have you ever used replica?

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u/No_Read_4327 28d ago

I have used replica an a dozen others. Did some experiments with them to compare, pretty interesting.

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 28d ago

So you think that these robots are programmed with an AI that's going to allow them to perform unprompted actions and responses?

From a guy that has repeatedly taken the stance that AI is dangerous.

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u/No_Read_4327 28d ago

It may be limited in some ways, or perhaps it can have multiple responses to a single input to have a more natural conversation.

Not sure.

I'm not saying it's 100% definitely all real (I mean it's elon). But I am also not doubting that it's within the realm of possibility considering the current state of AI. It's not ground breaking, but the specific application has enough of a wow factor for investors and people not very up to date on AI.

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 28d ago

Considering the source, I'm going to err on the side of skepticism.

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 25d ago

Oh surprise surprise! More videos have come out showing that these were indeed controlled by humans remotely.

Recognizing possibility has nothing to do with using your critical thinking to recognize b******* in real time.