Why can ChatGPT help you write an essay but can’t fold your laundry? Some researchers are working on software that would allow robots to understand and execute commands.
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Artificial intelligence can find you a recipe or generate a picture, but it cannot hang that picture on a wall or cook you dinner, at least, not yet. Some researchers are now trying to get AI to work in the real world by putting it into robots. NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel has more.
GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE: In a laboratory at Stanford University, graduate student Moo Jin Kim