Thomas AngleroCEO, MerkabaPhi AS · CEO and AI Advisor to boards and CEOs

Embodied AI, the Power of YouTube Training Robots with How To Videos

1 Feb 2024 · 2 min

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This content was created by Thomas Anglero. This content was uploaded by Thomas Anglero. This is a YouTube video titled "Embodied AI, the Power of YouTube Training Robots with How To Videos" (created 2024-02-01). The excerpt is a short back-and-forth between two speakers: SPEAKER A describes how vast how-to content (corporate manuals, appliance guides, YouTube how-to videos like IKEA assembly, changing a tire, sewing) is effectively training embodied AI/robots, and SPEAKER B replies that these learned practical skills are features rather than problems. The clip is a discussion about AI training data sources and the role of instructional videos in accelerating robotics capabilities.

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every corporate manual ever written, it would digest it and get trained by it and would learn instantly. How many of us has read corporate manuals? Remember any corporate manual? Anybody? Nobody does. Every TV, appliance manual, everything. That's that amount of information that's available in the world. That is what's training these robots today. Then I started playing with ideas saying, wait a minute, training. Where is the biggest corp? Where's the biggest library of information on how to do stuff? YouTube. Anybody, anybody like me that when you go to IKEA, you come home, you have no idea how to put together that damn closet? Or am I the only person on this? Okay. If I'm the only person on this call who has that problem. So I live on YouTube. Whenever I come home from IKEA, I go on YouTube, say, how do I put together this closet? How to. Every time these influencers, every time someone uploads how to do something on YouTube, We've created the world's largest repository of information to train this evolution, this revolution that is unstoppable. As Jennifer said in her thing, that person asked, how can we slow it down? You can't slow it down. These robots will be sitting down like you see this robot watching your YouTube video, learning how to change a tire, learning how to sew a button. Or like me, help me put together this damn thing from IKEA, which I hate putting together.
This is a good point to jump in, for me to jump in and say, these are not bad things. These are features, not bugs. I have no desire to change tires or to sew buttons or put together IKEA.