AI brief
A LessWrong post reports that general purpose multimodal language models are increasingly able to directly control real robotic arms, for example by specifying gripper positions, with performance on a benchmark improving as model scale increases.
Why it matters: It suggests frontier language models are gaining the ability to operate physical robots directly, rather than only through specialized control software.
Written by AI from LessWrong's published text.
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“Summary We demonstrate that general purpose multimodal language models (LMs) are increasingly capable of directly controlling real robotic arms (e.g., by specifying gripper positions) to manipulate their environment.”
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