People are claiming teleop, but I really don't think a human would be this insistent to get a package they clearly can't reach.

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The author argues that recent humanoid robot movements are autonomous physical AI, not teleoperation, and dismisses skepticism as denial of an impending disruptive technology akin to the automobile or iPhone.

Also the movement doesn't look human to me at all, what human is trying to reach for something far away with one arm while keeping the other one completely still (outside of body movement, but the elbow angle doesn't change). I think people are in denial and really want to believe this is a guy in India controlling it because they're not ready for the day that humanoids take off like the automobile or the iPhone because it's potentially the most disruptive technology we've seen. EDIT People in this subreddit: "It's actually teleoperated!" After showing them it's not: "This is actually shit and not good. Not even AGI, looks like dated tech." Agree that it's not AGI yet but hear me out. Pretty inconsistent to believe the movements look human enough to imply teleoperation but then believe that this is something we could do 10 years ago. You have to understand that robots of the 2010s could not generalize beyond a basic task or set of tasks. It is embarrassing this has to be explained. There is no precedent for technology that generates actions from pixels and prompts in real time. A couple years ago we were limited to text based intelligence with limited image understanding. It couldn't do \*anything\* in the real world which is why a lot of critics claimed it wasn't close to being AGI. You are literally watching the birth of physical AI and don't care even a little bit. Maybe it is cope, maybe it is a stunning lack of curiosity, but it seems uncharacteristic of anyone who willingly comes to a subreddit called "singularity."
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