How the AI that drives ChatGPT will move into the physical world

Covariant’s AI-powered Robotic Putwall system autonomously sorts items at the company’s headquarters in Emeryville, California. By combining camera and sensory data with the enormous amounts of text used to train chatbots like ChatGPT, Covariant has built AI technology that gives its robots a much broader understanding of the world around it. — The New York Times

EMERYVILLE, California: Companies such as OpenAI and Midjourney build chatbots, image generators and other artificial intelligence tools that operate in the digital world.

Now, a startup founded by three former OpenAI researchers is using the technology development methods behind chatbots to build AI technology that can navigate the physical world.