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- Microsoft just posted a video of ChatGPT

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controlling a drone.

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And for the record,

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I just wanna say that I am ready

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to serve our new robot overlords,

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and I have supported them since day one.

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(drone buzzing)

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You hear that?

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That's the last sound you'll hear

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before you get permanently
deleted by a machine.

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The makers of Windows, Excel,

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and now flying killer robots,

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are in the middle of a $10
billion partnership with OpenAI,

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the company behind ChatGPT.

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Apparently, the executives at Microsoft

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must have never seen "Terminator,"

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or maybe they didn't
realize that the cyborgs

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were the bad guys,

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because the company just posted a paper

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detailing how they wanna
use AI to control robots.

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- I'll be back.

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- In a blog post, Microsoft
said its goal with this research

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is to quote "See if ChatGPT
can think beyond text

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and reason about the physical world

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to help with robotic tasks."

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Microsoft said, "We wanna help
people interact with robots

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more easily without needing to learn

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complex programming languages

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or details about robotic systems."

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Now, to be fair to Microsoft,

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right now if you wanna train a robot

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to do new tasks you need an engineer

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with advanced technical
knowledge to write code

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and spend a lot of time
running experiments.

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But with Microsoft's new protocol,

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you'll be able to set up a system

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where you can use ChatGPT to
give your robot instructions

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in plain English.

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Then you tweak the instructions
as you watch the robot

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play out the commands in a simulation.

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And once you got it right,

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you deploy the code to your robot friend

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and let it get to work.

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If that sounds simple,

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it's because Microsoft is nailing

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a really difficult engineering problem.

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But it's worth taking a pause

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and looking at how AI has
been performing so far.

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Last week, Microsoft's new
AI-powered Bing search engine

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prompted users to say racial
epithets, said it was alive,

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it formed a weird secret identity,

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and started dropping hints

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about its plans for world domination.

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I wish I was kidding, but
every word of that is true.

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Let's just hope Microsoft
works the kinks out

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before they start giving
Bing arms and legs.

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