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CHATGPT JUST HELPED BUILD A FOOD HARVESTING ROBOT TO SAVE HUMANITY

https://thedebrief.org/chatgpt-built-a-robot/

ChatGPT’s input proved valuable in both the conceptual and implementation phases of the project. According to Stella, “ChatGPT extends the designer’s knowledge to other areas of expertise. For example, the chat robot taught us which crop would be most economically valuable to automate.”

The AI also provided useful suggestions during the implementation phase, like using silicone or rubber for the gripper to avoid crushing tomatoes and recommending a Dynamixel motor to drive the robot. The resulting robotic arm, designed through the collaboration between humans and AI, can successfully harvest tomatoes.

In their Nature Machine Intelligence article, the researchers explore the varying degrees of cooperation between humans and Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT. In the most extreme scenario, AI provides all the input for the robot design, and the human blindly follows it. In this case, the LLM acts as the researcher and engineer, while the human acts as the manager, specifying the design objectives.