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This Robot Hand Taught Itself How to Grab Stuff Like a Human

This Robot Hand Taught Itself How to Grab Stuff Like a Human

This Robot Hand Taught Itself How to Grab Stuff Like a Human

Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer

July 31, 20187m 33s

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Show Notes

Elon Musk is kinda worried about AI. (“AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization and I don’t think people fully appreciate that,” as he put it in 2017.) So he helped found a research nonprofit, OpenAI, to help cut a path to “safe” artificial general intelligence, as opposed to machines that pop our civilization like a pimple. Yes, Musk’s very public fears may distract from other more real problems in AI.

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