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ChatGPT trains robot dog to walk on Swiss ball | This quadruped wobbling along, balanced on top of an exercise ball is a fun experiment to watch – but at its core, it demonstrates that AIs like GPT-4 can train robots to perform complex, real-world tasks much more effectively than we humans can.


This quadruped wobbling along, balanced on top of an exercise ball is a fun experiment to watch – but at its core, it demonstrates that AIs like GPT-4 can train robots to perform complex, real-world tasks much more effectively than we humans can.

DrEureka, a new open-source software package that anyone can play with, is used to train robots to perform real-world tasks using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT 4. With a few prompts into an LLM like ChatGPT, the AI can write code that creates a reward/penalty system to train the bot in virtual space, where 0 = fail, and anything higher than 0 is a win. That's fine in a simulation, but in real life it could overheat motors, or over-extend limbs, damaging the robot – the researchers call this phenomenon "degenerate behavior."

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