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??? how do you know cooking (!) is trivial for an llm. that doesnt make any sense



Because the recipes and the adjustments are trivial for an LLM to execute. Remembering things, and being trained on tasks at 1000 sites at once, sharing the knowledge among all the robots, etc.

The only hard part is moving the limbs and handling the fragile eggs etc.

But it's not just cooking, it's literally anything that doesn't require extreme agility (sports) or dexterity (knitting etc). From folding laundry to putting together furniture, cleaning the house and everything in between. It would be able to do 98% of the tasks.


It’s not going to know what tastes good by being able to regurgitate recipes from 1000s of sites. Most of those recipes are absolute garbage. I’m going to guess you don’t cook.

Also how is an LLM going to fold laundry?


the llm would be be the high level system that runs the simulations to create and optimize the control algos the robotic systems.


ok. what evidence is there that LLMs have already solved cooking? how does an LLM today know when something is burning or how to adjust seasoning to taste or whatever. this is total nonsense


It's easy. You can detect if something is burning in many different ways, from compounds in the air, to visual inspection. People with not great smell can do it.

As far as taste, all that kind of stuff is just another form of RLHF training preferences over millions of humans, in situ. Assuming the ingredients (e.g. parsley) tastes more or less the same across supermarkets, it's just a question of amounts, and preparation.


do you know that LLMs operate on text and don't have any of the sensory input or relevant training data? you're just handwaving away 99.9% of the work and declaring it solved. of course what you're talking about is possible, but you started this by stating that cooking is easy for an LLM and it sounds like you're describing a totally different system which is not an LLM


You know nothing about cooking.




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