A robotic hand can juggle a cube — with lots of training
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — How long does it take a robotic hand to learn to juggle a cube?
About 100 years, give or take.
That's how much virtual computing time it took researchers at OpenAI, the non-profit artificial intelligence lab funded by Elon Musk and others, to train its disembodied hand. The team paid Google $3,500 to run its software on thousands of computers simultaneously, crunching the actual time to 48 hours. After training the robot in a virtual environment, the team put it to a test in the real world.
The hand, called Dactyl, learned to move itself, the team of two dozen researchers disclosed this week.