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Google’s Robot Taught Itself To Obey Natural Language Commands

If you say ‘I’m hungry’, the robot will fetch you a snack. If you say you’ve spilled your drink, it will bring you a sponge to mop it up. The robot has learned how to obey these commands without any human input it used machine learning instead.

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