Don’t say we didn’t warn you. A new company called Figure has teamed up with heavy hitters like OpenAI, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos in a $675 multimillion-dollar project that will bring human-like robots to a Walmart near you. Okay, maybe not Walmart, but you caught my drift.
Last week, we talked about the emergence of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and how we may have reached a point where artificial intelligence could behave just like humans. Today, Figure released a demo of their product that they believe will revolutionize the world. Some may call it cool; others – terrifying.
Take a look for yourself –
Wild, huh? Again, I don’t want to be a doomer, and they aren’t even in production yet. There have been several so-called great AI projects that we were supposed to have achieved years ago that haven’t been realized (hoverboards?). Yet this time, there is something much different in the air – a seismic shift is happening. Especially when you get all the top dogs together.
I will be sitting this one out and rooting for the underdog Google on this one (sarcasm)