The Memo - Special edition: Figure 01 + OpenAI
‘Everything in this video is a neural network’
To: US Govt, major govts, Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Citi, Tencent, IBM, & 10,000+ more recipients…
From: Dr Alan D. Thompson <LifeArchitect.ai>
Sent: 14/Mar/2024
Subject: The Memo - AI that matters, as it happens, in plain English
AGI: 72%The BIG Stuff
Figure AI shows off Figure 01 (robot) + GPT-4V + voice
Once again, we have this out to The Memo readers within just a few hours of announcement.
If it seems like only last week that there was a special edition of The Memo, you’re right! Last Monday we had the Claude 3 Opus model release, still outperforming GPT-4 and Gemini across diverse benchmarks.
This morning (Australian time) we have this major video announcement from Figure AI, a robotics company with recent US$675M investment from OpenAI (29/Feb/2024). This is the missing piece of the puzzle, having large language models embodied in a humanoid robot (or similar, as AI adapts the ‘perfect’ or optimal embodiment form, outside of our limited view of biology).
Figure AI today said:
OpenAI models provide high-level visual and language intelligence. Figure neural networks deliver fast, low-level, dexterous robot actions. Everything in this video is a neural network.
Watch the video (link); note that it is in realtime and autonomous (not pre-programmed):
Read the Figure AI post on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Figure_robot/status/1767913661253984474
Read more about Figure AI: https://www.figure.ai/about-us
Today’s advancement moved my conservative AGI countdown from 71% ➜ 72%. Many people would argue that Figure’s announcement instead brings us much closer to 100% as it already meets the broader and simpler definition of artificial general intelligence: ‘a machine that performs at the level of an average (median) human.’
Read more: https://lifearchitect.ai/agi/
And we’re only 2½ months through 2024 so far… Get ready for the next big releases. My Dec/2023 AI report spelled out some of the next steps:
https://lifearchitect.ai/the-sky-is-comforting/
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All my very best,
Alan
LifeArchitect.ai
OpenAI was one of many investors in the $675 M investment round and contributed only $5 M. “OpenAI, a ChatGPT-maker and an early supporter of Figure AI, is investing $5 million, having previously considered acquiring the startup”. Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-intel-and-jeff-bezos-invest-millions-in-ai-humanoid-robot-company
So where does this leave the 1x.tech's EVO and NEO robots? They're also funded by OpenAI (and Microsoft I believe).
It would be interesting to have an overview over what needs to be accomplished in order for the "Countdown to AGI" to reach 100%.