The senior leaders of the DoD have been fond of pointedly asking, “How are LLMs going to help us do warfighting?”…
The simple answer is LLMs are a foundational technology to allowing and enabling the advanced training and operation of robotics. Rather you want to point to any number of the forms of human workload offset or replacement, robotics will make a major impact in the years to come. This video of a recent presentation done by Nvidia researchers should hopefully open people’s eyes to what’s coming, and what’s possible even now.
LLMs are the component enabling technology that allows for type 2 thinking for robotics, and the overall robot performance will continue to scale with advances in both chips and models. In 5-10 years we’ll see the first widespread deployment of advanced robotics in the world. The question becomes what does the path from here to there look like? Who will be involved, and who will be the first to take advantage?
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