Real-world AI assistant: Google combines a large language model with an everyday robot

In the PaLM-SayCan project, Google is combining current robotics technology with advances in large language models. Advances in large-scale AI language models have so far mainly arrived in our digital lives, such as text translation, text and image generation, or behind the scenes, when tech platforms use language AI to moderate the content. In the PaLM-SayCan project, various Google divisions are now combining the company's most advanced large-scale speech model to date with an everyday robot that could one day help in the home – an assistant for the real world. But that will take a while yet. Google unveiled the giant AI language model PaLM in early April, crediting the model with "breakthrough capabilities" in language understanding and, specifically, reasoning. PaLM stands for "Pathways Language Model" – making it a building block in Google's grand Pathways AI strategy for next-generation AI that can efficiently handle thousands or millions of tasks.