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Humanoid robot acts out prompts like it's playing charades

A large language model can translate written instructions into code for a robot’s movement, enabling it to perform a wide range of human-like actions

By Alex Wilkins

4 January 2024

A humanoid robot that can perform actions based on text prompts could pave the way for machines that behave more like us and communicate using gestures.

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT, are proficient at writing many kinds of computer code, but they can struggle when it comes to doing this for robot movement. This is because almost every robot has very different physical forms and software to control its parts. Much of the code for this isn’t on the internet,…

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