Google has released an new open source benchmark that it says will allow robots to perform tasks by writing their own code in response to human-written instructions.  The company has launched a new website (opens in new tab) to reveal “Code as Policies” (CAP), whereby prompts written in plain English can be interpreted into language-model generated programs (LMPs) written in Python code. CAP is the successor to PaLM-SayCan (opens in new tab), a project that similarly allowed a physical helper robot to be directed through commands in plain English.
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