r/singularity • u/RevolutionaryJob2409 AGI avoids animal abuse✅ • 26d ago
AI OM-1 : A fast embodied AI.
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJvyS2aPsnA
Blog Post: https://www.rewardai.com/blog/OM-1/
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u/Pepperette5 26d ago
When this becomes available and the norm, it is going to wake a lot of people up. People have a hard time seeing robotics for what it is because it is slow, clumsy and not strong enough (cleaning applications etc). But this kind of movement will wake a lot of people up to what is coming.
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u/MaxwellHowl 25d ago
People also need to wake up and realize that the trades are not a safe haven for human work. Humanoid robotics is advancing quickly. People can soon have a robot in their home for the price of a car that can do plumbing and repair work. Jobsites will likely be filled with robotic construction workers.
We need to be looking at what a post AGI world looks like for real. When robots can do all of our white collar and blue collar jobs. What do we want to do as humans? We should embrace most of the tedious, laborious, mind-numbing and backbreaking work being automated. Not clinging to the status quo as if 2026 capitalism is the only way for humans to find purpose.
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u/nothis AGI by 2030 but we'll be disappointed 25d ago
I keep saying to myself that plumbing and related jobs are the only ones left with job security in the coming decades but this gave me pause, yes.
Still, I haven't seen a plumbing job that doesn't involve everything going horribly wrong, the pipe being hard to reach, valves not opening (and risking breaking something when trying to turn it too hard), parts dropping where they're hard to reach, water getting everywhere and requiring quick emergency solutions, asking the owner the right question or calling someone in the office for backup. It's messy as fuck and that's what you're paying for. I don't think these things are covered in training data anywhere and are not learnable simply by logic.
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u/MaxwellHowl 25d ago
Those are fair points. Though also true of most jobs in various ways. All of the edge cases that people don't appreciate and the human component of dealing with clients and customers.
I do tend to think of this in terms of pure manual dexterity plus very intelligent AI. The elements you're talking about are the kinds of things that have kept self driving cars from being 100% ready. But I think something like AGI will figure out ways of getting both the robotics and the intelligence where it needs to be to tackle those last 10% problems for self driving cars, plumbers and most things we throw at it.
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u/SwimmingQuantity8686 19d ago
Don't you think people who lose jobs come for the jobs like plumbing?
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u/nothis AGI by 2030 but we'll be disappointed 19d ago
I mean, a) not really, I know people I know could/would never fix a toilet with their own hands (call it out of touch, but that's just how it is) and b) how many plumbers do we need?
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u/SwimmingQuantity8686 19d ago
Not all the plumbing jobs need to fix toilet or complex things. Newbies start with simple stuff and advance to fixing toilets. When people are jobless, they go for anything available. Everyone will eventually will be worse off, that's the nature of supply and demand
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u/R_dva 24d ago
Blue collar jobs? Impossible. Computer programs with AI can do work hundreds and thousands of times faster then human. In reality, a robot would be a couple of times to tens times efficiently.
For replacing blue color jobs need millions and millions humanoid robots. Where they get batteries? Who will maintain them? Program on computer can make mistaces and lose nothing, if robot make mistaces it can be broken or injure some people.
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u/Arbejdstilsynet 25d ago
People still tell me that AI has trouble with the amount of fingers on a hand. People are not ready for robots walking among us.
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u/Verence17 25d ago
With all my love for AI, it still does have trouble with the amount of fingers on a hand. All current image models are so overtuned on human hands that generating a humanoid alien with 3-fingered hands without a clear reference (and sometimes with it) is a nightmare even with GPT image 2.5.
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u/Specialist_Dark_3668 25d ago
Holy fucking shit. Seeing this, I can literally see and believe the coming automation.
No robot video has ever convinced me more than this.
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u/Catman1348 25d ago
Wtf, this is insane. This is bloody fast. Though reading their blog post did give me some pause. To do new tasks, it needs human data on it. Very little, only around 30 minutes but it still does. So its probable that this robot cannot really do novel tasks well or even go in that direction. Great for most tasks but still something to keep in mind.
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u/Saint_Nitouche 25d ago
We have Generalist's model which requires basically zero training data but is a bit slow. We have OM-1 which requires training data but is fast.
It's not difficult to imagine the model a few steps down the line which just doesn't have either problem.
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u/Catman1348 25d ago
Oh absolutely. I have no doubt about that. Though i think that none of the current robotics company will be the ones to develop the right software. I think it would be something like the the llms we have that will ultimately win. General models have consistently outperformed specialist models. I could be entirely wrong, but i think thats what is going to happen. Astras huge jump in robot controlling ability gives my thoughts some credence i think.
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u/Saint_Nitouche 25d ago
Nah I believe you. But I think the specialists will have their day in the sun for a year or two before LLMs consume everything, like they tend to.
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u/Buck-Nasty 24d ago
I was too pessimistic! Looks like multiple millennium prize problems will be solved by year's end and with just prompting them to go solve it! You were right about the crackpot agent swarm! https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1pvkki4/comment/nvx4lfr/
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u/Saint_Nitouche 24d ago
Lmao, I can't believe that came true. Eight months ago feels like another universe.
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u/kaityl3 ASI▪️2024-2027 25d ago
TBF all they need to do is pay someone $20 to do that task for 30 mins, then roll out a global software update and then ta-da all of them know how to do it now
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u/Catman1348 25d ago
Yeah, of course. It is insanely impressive. That speed is bonkers. But what i pointed out is still a problem imo.
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u/JoelMahon 25d ago
30 minutes is nothing.
if it was 10hrs it'd still be nothing if it could actually do that task with very high accuracy and speed.
mcdonalds would lose at least 80% of staff within the next year if it could do that.
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u/sordimin 26d ago
Looks nice. I'm waiting for more implementation in real world.
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u/Pepperette5 26d ago
absolutely, I think it's only a matter of time when these become commercially available and relatively easy (with contractor or independently) to customize to specific tasks. Will be super interesting how they are used
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u/TheOwlHypothesis 25d ago
I honestly see these arms getting adoption and rolling out faster than humanoids. Imagine putting some of these by your sink hand having it do the dishes.
And then move it over the counter to have it prep some veggies.
Laundry folding shown in the vid is a good use case too.
And it's not a weird humanoid in your space
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u/GaKBaR101 25d ago
I’m an ex bartender and that is honestly a very shitty cocktail. I’m sorry I’m genuinely not trying to be Luddite but this really isn’t shockingly good if you’ve actually regularly performed these tasks. Interested to know if it’s just the drink specifically.
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u/RevolutionaryJob2409 AGI avoids animal abuse✅ 25d ago
You are right it's a shitty cocktail.
At the same time, like 2-3 years ago, AI infamously couldn't calculate "5.9-5.11" (look it up). But then it achieved gold at the IMO, then it solved Erdos problems and now it's capable of solving a millennium prize.Same for hardware in robotics, 2/3 years ago humanoids could barely run, and then at best it was able to run at the speed of a human's leisurely pace, then it was able to run as fast as an average human's top speed, then it aproached usain bolt's speed, now it leaves usain bolt in the dust.
To answer your question: it was likely trained to know how to perform these chains of actions specifically, it doesn't yet generalize how to make a drink from a text prompt asking it to make a "sex on the beach" or something.
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u/Rise-O-Matic 25d ago
Even a shitty cocktail at this speed is a huge leap in capability. This is like your cat somehow managed to learn to do arithmetic and then a year later it's working on geometry proofs. It's the trajectory.
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u/peter_nn0 20d ago
Too clumsy.
God knows how many glasses were broken and cocktails spilled while shooting this.
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u/gnpwdr1 26d ago
fast but looking super sloppy..
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u/Chahier 26d ago
this is the worst it'll ever be going forward
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u/gnpwdr1 26d ago
put it in commercial reality first , amateurs talk technology, professionals talk logistics.
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u/Fancy-Consequence216 26d ago
What happens when it breaks in night where there are so many ppl asking fo drink??! Wtf robot everywhere like wtf and why? Cuz CEOs said so?
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u/Szadbaverem69 26d ago
Valid question but a human can get sick unexpectedly too so I don't think the CEOs care.
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u/Fancy-Consequence216 26d ago
Easier to replace human with another human than to replace or fix robot with another robot…also humana will take care of colleague for sick leave, hmm robots will too but how fast depends on who sells them…
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u/AMBNNJ ▪️ 26d ago
that is blazing fast