Okay, I want to convince you that AI is already here, all around us.

Right?

We have, and there's a couple of places where we either need AI or have big opportunities

for AI, so on, in outer space for instance.

We need AI, we have the Mars rover, the possibly next generation of the Mars rover, and so

on, and the problem there is if you want to go to Mars, then you can either remote control

this thing, which means you have to go extremely slowly.

Why?

Because the signal needs multiple minutes.

So if you drive fast, a big rock comes up, right?

Boom.

So you have to drive so slowly that you actually have a reaction span of seven minutes or something

like this.

For some value of seven, I always forget how many minutes it is.

So if you want to drive at any reasonable speed there, you either have to place someone

on Mars, very inconvenient and expensive, or you have to give the vehicle some autonomy.

Okay?

And we're trying it down on Earth because robots don't get drunk.

Artificial limbs.

Wouldn't it be nice if you lost your limb, we could just strap one on, and it would actually

behave like a real limb, meaning things like you can brain control it.

If you pick up a plastic bottle, and just to tell you what the wonderful thing about

this is, is gripping a plastic bottle that's kind of semi-soft without gripping it too

much that it kind of turns from a drink into a shower.

That's something that's kind of, we're there now.

We have robot limbs that actually pick up an egg without destroying it, those kind of

things.

Very difficult in the beginning.

Those are largely solved problems.

Picking up a chain of keys.

Very difficult.

Very irregularly formed object, and if you kind of pick it up at the wrong place, it

falls out of your hand.

Something you can do without even thinking about it.

Took decades to do this for robots.

But those things are essentially dumb.

They're being used.

And it usually means some motor autonomy here.

Just like many things you do with your fingers aren't actually controlled by the brain, but

some are either in your spinal cord or even lower.

Things like if you touch a hot surface, it just takes too long to send the nerve, ow,

ow, ow, up there and say pull back.

Your reaction.

That is something you want to do faster.

Since the signals in our nerves are relatively slow, you want to do it somewhere else.

Some kind of autonomy.

Probably you've seen a Roomba.

Who of you has a Roomba?

One, two, good.

Okay?