Lots of small details in this ad. Notice how...

- There is 0 eye contact with Memo after the start
- Memo does stuff next to humans doing stuff, while being successfully ignored
- Memo doesn't bring the woman coffee, the man does -- no hovering

Sunday Robotics has managed to achieve a combo of implied friendliness and utility in its appearance.

I'd want to play catch with Memo, but I also wouldn't mind Memo doing my dishes.

There's something extremely amphibious about the design. Yeah, I said amphibious!

Source/PDF, full model card: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

Highly recommend checking out their full post on their progress: deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-...

... interactive 3D environments, being generated on the fly Google's Genie 3 world model, and you've got an embodied agent with self-learning capability in a dynamically generated world.

The implications are endless.

I like Reid. I'll stop if trustworthy news comes out that should make a reasonable person dislike him.

I'd bet I get to continue liking Reid.

Either way, it's time to rewind the clock, to before Trump and Elon introduced innuendo as the way to lift people up or tear them down.