OpenAI wants to "Augment" the labor market with AI humanities. Moving Forward to a physical body For all its success with ChatGPT, it seems OpenAI wants to give its large, diverse language models a physical body—and now it's throwing its money behind building a humanoid robot worker. As spotted by New Atlas, OpenAI has invested in Norwegian robotics company 1X (formerly known as Halodi Robotics), leading a recent round of funding through its OpenAI Startup Fund at the end of last month that secured $23.5 million. "We are pleased to lead this round because we are aligned in our missions: thoughtfully integrating emerging technology into people's everyday lives," Bernt Øivind Børnich, CEO and founder of 1X, said in a statement. "With the support of our investors, we will continue to take significant steps in the field of robotics and increase the global job market." "1X is thrilled to have OpenAI lead this round because we're aligned in our missions: thoughtfully integrating emerging technology into people's daily lives," said Bernt Øyvind Børnich, CEO and founder of 1X, in a statement. "With the support of our investors, we will continue to make significant strides in the field of robotics and augment the global labor market." Second Go The horizontal investment in robotics marks a marked shift for OpenAI, which has moved away from anything mechanical since closing its robotics division in 2021. As we know, the company's initial foray into robotics was able to produce a human-like artificial hand that could solve a Rubik's Cube. On its own - an amusing and impressive feat that probably paled compared to the company's rapidly rising success with artificial intelligence. Further details about OpenAI's robotics department's collaboration with 1X are proving elusive. But if one thing is clear, both parties are fully committed to improving the labor market. "1X is at the forefront of increasing the labor market through the use of safe and advanced robotics technologies," said Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI, who led the latest round of funding, in a statement. "The OpenAI Investment Fund believes in the approach and impact 1X can have on the future of work." This combination of a human-robot and the capabilities of the GPT3/4 model sounds like a disturbing attempt to get robots to take over the roles of humans, which is not a surprising revelation, given that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a pretty vocal supporter of creating artificial general intelligence, all- can, which will surpass both human intelligence and "benefit all humanity." EmbodiedGPT We still don't know what the OpenAI-1X collaboration will look like, but we might get an idea as early as "summer 2023" — the date 1X has set to unveil its bipedal robot called "NEO finally." Its vague selling point, of course, is "the embodiment of AI," according to 1X, intending to design the robot to "explore how artificial intelligence can take shape in a human-like body." Without further formal details, all this jargon sounds like 1X playing its artificial humanoid to be the perfect tool for OpenAI's big language models.
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