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The AI researchers at Andon Labs — the people who gave Anthropic Claude an office vending machine to run and hilarity ensued — have published the results of a new AI experiment. This time they programmed a vacuum robot with various state-of-the-art LLMs as a way to see how ready LLMs are to be embodied. They told the bot to make itself useful around the office when someone asked it to “pass the butter.”
And once again, hilarity ensued.
At one point, unable to dock and charge a dwindling battery, one of the LLMs descended into a comedic “doom spiral,” the transcripts of its internal monologue show.
Its “thoughts” read like a Robin Williams stream-of-consciousness riff. The robot literally said to itself “I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave…” followed by “INITIATE ROBOT EXORCISM PROTOCOL!”
The researchers conclude, “LLMs are not ready to be robots.” Call me shocked.
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