Sanctuary’s CTO Suzanne Gildert explains their mind and hands first approach. Sanctuary AI views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is human-like general intelligence.
Suzanne Gildert is Chief Technology Officer and has been a prominent figure in AI robotics leading to her being often affectionately known as the Mother of embodied AGI.
They feel the hands are the key.
They want to master the entire lengthy alphabet of actions and then compile them into full tasks and then jobs.
They are identifying who the customers are and the demand. They will be low order of numbers of robots for each trial.
They will simulate all of the robots to thousands of robots.
They think millions of robots by 2030. Roughly scaling by tens each year.
They want to mimic the entire human form. Trying to take shortcuts will paint yourself into a corner where the system is no longer fully general.
They need to simulate at the level of physics for the voltages and amperage of the control signals and actions.
They are looking at multi-body control platforms. This is using their control system to control non-Sanctuary humanoid robots.
Sanctuary AIs CEO Geordie Rose and CTO Suzanne Gildert described their approach to building and testing such a system. Their approach comprises a physical humanoid robotic system; a software based control system for robots of this type; a performance metric, which they call g+, designed to be a measure of human-like intelligence in humanoid robots; and an evolutionary algorithm for incrementally increasing scores on this performance metric. They introduce and describe the current status of each of these. They report on current and historical measurements of the g+ metric on the systems described here.
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I’m a normal human and I could write a BASH script to do everything on a server that I’d normally need to do and just use it repeatedly. But, I don’t. It’d be boring. My point is, A.I. could absolutely do I.T. jobs. ^_^;;