OpenAI closes its robotics division

The non-profit OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team and halted attempts to apply artificial intelligence to physical machines. This was reported by Wojciech Zaremba, the company’s co-founder and head of the group.

He confirmed that the company has closed the division and is focusing on more promising areas of general artificial intelligence research.

“Here’s the revelation […] we recently shifted our focus at OpenAI, and I essentially disbanded the robotics group,” said Zaremba.

According to him, a shortage of training data is hindering robotics research. The team has not been able to gather enough information to bring the systems closer to the desired level of intelligence.

“From the perspective of what we aim to achieve, namely the creation of general artificial intelligence, I think that in fact some components were missing,” he added.

A representative of OpenAI confirmed the information relayed by Zaremba.

“Having advanced the latest reinforcement learning technologies as part of our “Rubik’s Cube” project and other initiatives, in October last year we decided not to pursue further robotics research and instead reoriented the team to other projects,” the company’s representatives said.

They added that they have focused on other approaches, notably reinforcement learning with human feedback.

In late June, OpenAI and Microsoft unveiled the tool for code auto-completion powered by artificial intelligence Copilot.

In March, OpenAI stated that the language model GPT-3 generates 4.5 billion words per day.

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