A recent video from Boston Dynamics showing their robot Atlas acting as a construction assistant (posted below) is absolutely jaw-dropping and serves as yet another reminder of how impressive artificial intelligence (AI) can be.
Just don’t miss out on Atlas’ blooper video (also posted below). So far, it’s easily outperformed the final cut with 11 million views versus 5.2 million views for the video where Atlas makes no mistakes.
That’s interesting and conveys for me a couple of things: First, robot blooper reels may be the next big thing (sorry BattleBots), and second, people like to be reminded of just how not perfect robots are. Turns out AI has a human side even though a bumbling robot may not quite appreciate the humorous slant of its shortcomings.
As far as blooper reels from autonomous cars and trucks? Yeah, not so funny. Ultimately, few topics in trucking can stir up as much interest and trepidation as artificial intelligence.
On the plus side, AI can keep life on the road safer through collision avoidance systems that typically analyze and react more quickly than human drivers to avoid potentially deadly and costly accidents.
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