OpenAI's project strawberry: a step closer to AGI?
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In this week's newsletter, find out about robots learning to navigate like humans, a new education platform, and OpenAI’s new secret project “Strawberry”. And don't miss my inspiring six-month transformation story – it's a reminder that progress is possible! Let's dive in…
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Gemini 1.5 Pro Powers Robots to Navigate and Understand Spaces Like Humans
Google DeepMind has recently published research on robot navigation using Gemini 1.5 Pro's large context window, helping robots understand and navigate complex environments from human instructions.
DeepMind’s "Mobility VLA" leverages Gemini’s 1M token context and map-like representations for navigation. Robots receive a video tour with key locations highlighted and build a space graph using video frames.
In tests, robots followed instructions from map sketches, audio requests, and visual cues. They supported natural language commands like "Take me somewhere to draw things."
Equipping robots with multimodal capabilities and large context windows unlocks many potential uses. Google’s ‘Project Astra’ demo showed future possibilities for voice assistants that can see, hear, and think, enhancing robot interactions and functionalities.
Former OpenAI, Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy starts AI education platform
Andrej Karpathy, a prominent figure in the AI world with experience at OpenAI and Tesla, has launched Eureka Labs, an AI-powered education platform. The platform aims to revolutionize education by integrating artificial intelligence to create a more personalized and efficient learning experience.
Eureka Labs will utilize AI teaching assistants to support teachers in course design and provide tailored guidance to students. The platform's initial offering, LLM101n, is an undergraduate-level course that teaches students to build their own AI models, similar to the platform's teaching assistant.
Karpathy's venture seeks to combine human expertise with AI technology, promising a more effective and accessible learning experience.
OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under the code name ‘Strawberry’
OpenAI is developing a new AI project codenamed "Strawberry" aimed at significantly enhancing reasoning capabilities. Building on previous work known as Q*, this project seeks to enable AI models to autonomously navigate the internet, conduct in-depth research, and tackle complex, multi-step problems. By focusing on post-training techniques and potentially utilizing concepts from Stanford's Self-Taught Reasoner, OpenAI aims to overcome the limitations of current language models, which often struggle with logical reasoning and common sense. If successful, Strawberry could mark a major breakthrough in AI, with potential applications ranging from scientific discovery to software development.
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