I'm not saying the article is wrong, but I didn't see any definitive evidence of the claim, just an aggregation of speculation from other sources.
The closest assertion is the statement, "At least one video from the event displayed an Optimus bartender acknowledging that it was being “assisted by a human.”" But what did this mean?
Statements like, "Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas also wrote in a report that the bots “relied on tele-ops (human intervention)”," don't seem to explain how this analyst knew this, the degree of the intervention, etc. Maybe if I read the analyst's report it would be clearer.
I distinguish between two ends of a spectrum for human assistance/intervention. On one end, there's a guy behind the curtain with a microphone and perhaps another with mo-cap or some other type of RC tool to instigate the physical responses. On the other end of the spectrum, there's a person watching telemetry and "merely" providing critical corrections to error states as needed. Both ends of this spectrum qualify as human assistance/intervention, but I still have no idea where on the spectrum this event was.
The closest assertion is the statement, "At least one video from the event displayed an Optimus bartender acknowledging that it was being “assisted by a human.”" But what did this mean?
Statements like, "Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas also wrote in a report that the bots “relied on tele-ops (human intervention)”," don't seem to explain how this analyst knew this, the degree of the intervention, etc. Maybe if I read the analyst's report it would be clearer.
I distinguish between two ends of a spectrum for human assistance/intervention. On one end, there's a guy behind the curtain with a microphone and perhaps another with mo-cap or some other type of RC tool to instigate the physical responses. On the other end of the spectrum, there's a person watching telemetry and "merely" providing critical corrections to error states as needed. Both ends of this spectrum qualify as human assistance/intervention, but I still have no idea where on the spectrum this event was.