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Goal 2 has been achieved, at least as a proof of concept (and not by OpenAI): https://openai.com/index/openai-technical-goals/

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They can put away clutter but if they could chop a carrot or dust a vase they'd have shown videos demonstrating that sort of capability.

EDIT: Let alone chop an onion. Let me tell you having a robot manipulate onions is the worst. Dealing with loose onion skins is very hard.

There's something hilarious to me about the idea of chopping onions being a sort of benchmark for robots.

Sure. But if you showed this video to someone 5 or 10 years ago, they'd say it's fiction.

Telling a robot verbally "Put the cup on the counter" and having it figure out what the cup is, what the counter is in its field of view would have seemed like science fiction. The object manipulation itself is still well behind what we saw in the 2015 DARPA Grand Challenge though.

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