Lifelike Humanoid Robot 'Alter3' Shows Potential for AI-Powered Robot Friends
• Alter3 is a humanoid robot that can move realistically and take verbal instructions thanks to GPT-4, generating code to control its Android system • It can perform various life-like actions like taking selfies, eating popcorn, playing guitar based on natural language prompts • Alter3 can learn from its own memory, human feedback, and mimic expressions, allowing more adaptive behaviors • Research shows potential for large language models to improve human-robot communication and collaboration • Authors believe this breakthrough could lead to future robot friends that understand us and share interests/emotions