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Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents

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301 points SerCe | 3 comments | 20 Feb 25 02:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source
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Oras ◴[20 Feb 25 08:53 UTC] No.43112544[source]▶
Looking at industrial robots they don't mimic how humans do things, and hence, they are efficient. That's why I don't understand how these propsals to teach robots how humans do things will make any sense.

To have robots at homes, they will need their tools to be efficient. It will not be the same washing machine, oven, or dishwasher that we use now, there will be new ones made for robots.

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1. whatever1 ◴[20 Feb 25 08:55 UTC] No.43112554[source]▶
But Humans generalize very well across tasks. You can have an employee driving a forklift, then stop pick-up a pallet that blocks his way and continue.
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2. Oras ◴[20 Feb 25 11:28 UTC] No.43113475[source]▶
And robots will not do that either, what if the employee used hearing to determine if there is a hazard (another moving vehicle around) before jumping to pick a pallet? How would the robot know by just “looking”? How to prioritise visuals, audio, sense … etc?
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3. qgin ◴[20 Feb 25 13:56 UTC] No.43114657[source]▶
There's no reason to expect models won't be able to handle this even better than humans.