WORDS CAN’T WASH MY BACK 💎This morning, I was imagining a robot that I actually need.Not one that dances. Not one that m...

WORDS CAN’T WASH MY BACK 💎This morning, I was imagining a robot that I actually need.Not one that dances. Not one that makes coffee or does backflips.I was imagining a bathroom robot that could safely wash the parts of my body I cannot reach, steady me in the shower, help after toileting, dry me and assist me with dressing.Then I watched this interview with Fei-Fei Li, sometimes known as the “Godmother of AI”, and suddenly I understood one of the important missing pieces.SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE.Li helped transform modern AI through ImageNet, which helped teach machines to recognise what they see. Now she wants machines to understand the physical world. Not merely recognise a cup, but understand where the cup is, how it relates to everything around it, what happens if you move it, and how to pick it up and put it somewhere else.Her wonderfully simple challenge to language AI is:Can words put out fires?Can words cook an omelette?No.AND THIS MATTERS ENORMOUSLY TO ME. ChatGPT can already unde...