Mark Rober's lightning-fast robot can win at rock-paper-scissors 100% of the time
YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has created an unbeatable robot opponent that will shatter your confidence in the classic rock-paper-scissors game.
In a nutshell: Computers have been beating humans at games for a long while. OpenAI got its start with bots that could beat professional Starcraft players. Now, one engineer has built an unbeatable robot at Roshambo – commonly known as Rock-Paper-Scissors.
YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has created an unbeatable robot opponent that will shatter your confidence in the classic rock-paper-scissors game. Dubbed "Rocky," the robot is outwardly just a simple box with googly eyes and a 3D-printed hand, so how good could it be?
Impossibly good! Rober excitedly shows off the bot's capabilities in a recent video. Rober could not win a single round against the robot in his demo. Rober claims that the chances of beating Rocky are "zero percent."
is it at all possible for someone to create a similar robot using OpenAI gpt model?🤔
Or one of the open source models.
The ability to have these do similar things in terms of knowledge is possible. In fact, I believe most LLMs will eventually be commodities since they are all trained on the same information.
That said, the robotic part of things, going a bit further is more difficult. Here is where we see a difference.
oooooh I get it now, but with the way Nvidia is making their model Open source I'll not be surprised to see lots of new and affordable tech trained with AI.
The key to Rocky's dominance is a blisteringly fast hand-tracking system. An infrared motion sensor tracks the movement of your hand and fingers a hundred times per second. This data gets fed into a mini-computer buried inside Rocky's body, which uses algorithms to determine whether you're throwing rock, paper, or scissors split seconds before you've fully extended your hand. Once it knows your throw, the computer directs Rocky's robotic hand via servo motors to make the perfect counter move.
Wait a minute, that means it's the end of winning Rock paper scissors 😭💔
Mark Rober’s robot is really cool and that means eventually Robots can get to AGI level.