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AI trains robot dog to walk on a yoga ball

Robotics and AI developers have trained a robot dog to stand and walk along a yoga ball, another step forward in AI development.

It is fun to watch the four-legged device move and adapt but it reinforces the serious capability of the technology and how AIs like GPT-4 appear to be training robots to perform difficult tasks more effectively than humans can. By providing a few instructions in an LLM, AI can process the information to write code which determines a reward/punishment system to teach the robot, virtually, where 0 equals failure, and anything above zero is success — but the higher the score, the greater the reward. With the powerful LLM, there is no trouble in creating the parameters in large quantities for the training system to execute the commands simultaneously — to allow the robot dog to do its thing on the yoga ball.

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