The age of robots has come! Huang points to the next wave of AI: physical AI

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2024-06-03 12:40Published on the official account of Cailianpress, a subsidiary of Shanghai Poster Industry Group

"Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" on June 3 "The era of robots has arrived. One day, moving objects will operate autonomously. In his keynote speech before the opening of the COMPUTEX conference, Huang judged this.

In the AI boom, Huang, as the head of NVIDIA, has every move, word and deed that affects the direction of the market and industry. Where is AI next? This time, Huang pointed to the robot.

He highlighted the importance of robotics and AI in the future – "The new wave of AI is physical AI. AI is able to understand the laws of physics and fight alongside humans...... It's really exciting that robots and physical AI are becoming a reality, and not just in science fiction. ”

▌What is "physical AI"?

物理AI英文为Physical AI,也称"实体AI"。 在瑞士联邦材料科学与技术实验室Aslan Miriyev 和伦敦帝国理工学院Mirko Kovač之前在《Nature MachineIntelligence》发表的一篇文章,曾如此定义"物理AI":

Physical AI refers to physical systems that are capable of performing tasks that are normally associated with intelligent organisms, enabling co-evolution of organism, control, form, action execution, and perception.

In the talk, Huang said that most AI today does not understand the laws of physics and is not based on the physical world. Generating images, videos, 3D graphics, and many other physical phenomena requires AI that is based on physics and understands the laws of physics.

"The AI that works for us must understand the world model in order to understand how to interpret the world and how to perceive the world." Researchers and companies around the world are developing robots powered by physical AI that are able to understand instructions and perform complex tasks autonomously in the real world.

▌The era of robots has arrived

Robotics is a fairly broad concept. Huang said that when he mentions "robots," people usually think of humanoid robots, "but that's not entirely true." Everything will be robots. "Robots will be distributed in all factories, factories will be able to coordinate robots, and these robots will make new robot products.

In Huang's vision, the next high-volume robot product made by robots in robot factories could be humanoid robots, and the robots that are easiest to adapt to the world are also humanoid robots.

"The age of robots has arrived, and the next wave of AI has arrived," said Huang, who opened his arms in front of a variety of robot projection screens, announcing the beginning of a new era. It's not the future, it's happening. ”

Among NVIDIA's products, there are many things related to robots, including the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for simulation applications, the Project GR00T humanoid robot general base model, the Jetson Thor robot computer, the NVIDIA Isaac platform, etc., and companies such as BYD Electronics, Siemens, and Teradyne are also integrating NVIDIA's autonomous robotics technology into their own factories.

英伟达内部也已组建研究小组GEAR，全称Generalist Embodied Agent Research，意为“通用具身智能体研究”。

Jim Fan, a senior research scientist at Nvidia and one of the group's leaders, also made a similar statement to Huang at the time: In the future, every moving machine will be autonomous, and robots and simulated agents will be as ubiquitous as iPhones. "We're building a foundational agent: an AI with universal capabilities that can learn how to act expertly in multiple worlds, both virtual and real. 2024 will be the year of robotics, the year of game AI, and the year of simulation. ”

It is worth mentioning that with the fire of AI burning from chatbots to humanoid robots, Nvidia is naturally not the only giant that has increased its investment.

Last week, OpenAI was revealed to have restarted its previously abandoned robot team, and a person close to OpenAI said that the newly formed robot team has been initially formed and has been operating for about two months.

"We always plan to return to robotics, and our partnership with Figure AI shows us a path to explore what humanoid robots can accomplish driven by high-performance multimodal models," said Peter Welinder, vice president of OpenAI and former robotics team member. ”

(Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Zheng Yuanfang)

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