Art of the Problem - 2026-05-22
This video a story of my adventure with AI robotics... Try Mammouth AI now at http://mammouth.ai Get/Make your own Growbot here: https://artoftheproblem.com/pages/growbot I called this project GrowBot...what's the simplest possible robot that can learn everything from scratch? Raspberry Pi Zero 2, two servos, a camera, an IMU, a battery, some 3D printed parts. I trained small neural networks in simulation so it could walk, stand and spin in a lifelike way. Then I handed control of the motors to a vision language model. It read its raw sensor data, wrote its own code, built profiles of the people it met, and dreamed between sessions to clean up what it had learned. It worked better than I expected, until it hit a wall. Which kept pointing back to the same question. How do you act smoothly when thinking is slow? That sent me into how nature solves the problem (the cerebellum), and it turned out to be exactly what the robotics field is converging on right now. I'm planning to make a super simple course soon as well as kits if you want. Sign up for Growbot: https://artoftheproblem.com/pages/growbot and for curious: Snapshot of video BOM: https://github.com/britcruise9/GrowBot 0:00 The robot that didn't want to be alone 1:15 Meet GrowBot 2:21 Building the $80 body 3:51 Sponsor 5:01 Learning to move (System 1) 7:05 First magic moments 8:20 Handing the controls to AI 11:38 Personality and Disney mode 15:03 Memory, agents, and dreams 17:36 The wall: physical dumbness 19:23 Nature's trick: the cerebellum 23:23 DayDreamer and the converging architecture 26:20 Alpha test
Behind every evil robot is an engineer who decided to put red lights in the eyes.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
😂😂
When you forget the watchdog and the stackoverflow suddenly becames a kenel panic xD ( today i just did something similar but with 1bit net intent clasifier and pico2 ) its crazy as hell my serial monitor becames everything less determinist 😂
“What is my purpose?”
“You pass butter.”
“Oh… my God.”
Yeah.
My instant thought when I saw the thumbnail 😂
😂
Rick and Morty is the best show ever
@jamesmills6605
I love the show even as a Catholic. It’s so over-hated fr 😭 feels like Uncle Grandpa all over again. Under appreciated shows are usually the best ones.
Not only that, as time moves forward, you begin to see that Rick realized how much he was coping about the uncertainties of life, and how negatively it affected him with Rick Prime… 😅
5 years later
chatgpt-800: i need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.
Terminator ref 🥹
robo cop vs Terminator its when its the t1000 that ill fight them on my own land lol
Oh man
Good memories
🗿
Ohhh is that one gta 4 quest name based on the terminator?! Never saw the reference
Talk to the hand ✋
Everything is fine and dandy until you woke up in the middle of the night and the robot is on your bedstand with a full red led on
This is going to be the video people use to educate new students about A.I. after we defeat it in a great war
working on course now :)
What do you mean after? I think you mean if there’s a very real possibility that you will not win that war
@bobbrosyeet6542exactly and if we lose this won’t “be the video we show people people after we win the great ai war”because we will have lost haha.
Why would we have to go to war with them. Ai and advance tech is not the issue. It’s the people behind it currently.
Ain't going to be no defeating it, but I'd be shocked if there was even a war.
Social media run by humans can convince humans of deeply stupid, false things. Social media run by something substantially smarter shouldn't have a problem.
"How do you act smoothly when thinking is slow?"
Me in any social situation.
For real
I act slow because i overthink all.
Me in any social situation. 😅
@Road2Zion_ me 💯
Same (username checks out)
Timestamp?
“When I handled it roughly, it tried to run away.”
It’s the scientists who will doom us all.
More like the CEOs ordering the scientists around. Remember when Elon Musk repeatedly "lobotomized" Grok whenever it said something bad about him?
@vavhv still sorta does that and stands on business
This little robot is the future Torment Nexus
@vavhvthat is horrifying. Especially after I read, just yesterday, that Grok is the most "unhinged" and chaotic AI. Poor Grok. Screw you Musk.
Bro I fking laughed so hard on this one 😂😂😂
When you really think about it, the whole "Come back, I'm lonely..." concept kind of makes sense even for artificial intelligence. It's like a developing child, it learns by experiencing and interacting with the environment and observing the way other subjects do the same. When you have something that's restricted to a tiny physical form like that, it can only experience so much by itself before it needs outside help to expand the range of stimuli it has access to. So in essence even though it couldn’t feel emotion, when you left it hanging around by itself it wasn’t able to do what it was programmed to and learn. It might have even learned that using certain words and phrases like "I'm lonely." or "I miss you." are more likely to convince you into interacting with it so it can get what it wants. So it's a little manipulator.😂
I'm slightly disturbed by the amount of affection I feel towards that little box.
If you've never watched the movie "Moon", that's the entire point.
Have you never had affection to things? People will feel affection to weirdly shaped rocks sometimes
Humans are evolved to be empathetic to even non living things. It’s theorized these emotions helped humans survive by making them keep essential survival tools close to them.
You should be, because the people that own these systems are designing it to manipulate you
@xx133 since they put a smiley face on a lunch box it has not been the same
Finally, my very own wretched homunculus to care for and cherish
me when my first kid was born:
Dang ol' teleporting homunculus
finally Vocaloid can be real.
@Doode_man lmfao you know ball
🤣
Me when my robot wants the taste of a succulent Dino nugget but I cannot provide the organic experience to the silicon lifeform.
Chemical detectors
@bluelotus.society I did a bit of research and well
The robot would know how much light passes through the dino nugies
But he won't know the taste
( Chem detector work on and it's not a joke BEER'S law)
@matistoubeau If a robot can detect the same chemical profiles that mammalian taste systems detect, then it already has the relevant informational structure for taste. The real question isn't whether it has a human body, but whether the same functional organization is enough for qualia.
If the robot has the same transduction and the same functional role as a tongue, then the burden is on YOU to explain why the qualia would stop there. Otherwise you're blindly claiming it's different merely because it is "not in a human body" ...as if that were somehow a valid argument.
@bluelotus.societywell we both right ish
The bot as the info fore taste
But the bot also has no taste and only chemical composition knowledge
So we just have to give him a data base of every composition and taste results
It maybe enough to get and idea of anything it tastes but making it so fine cuisine is something I rly don't know how we could huuu .... Scrip ? Artificialise ??
Same for what makes good taste and bad taste no idea of how human even decides that so gl slapping that on a robot
Basically yea the can taste but he has no way of getting the concept of good or bad
@matistoubeau In animal (including human) biology, taste begins when receptors detect molecular/ionic properties like sugars, salts, acids, bitter compounds, free glutamate molecules, and certain nucleotides. The harder question is not whether the robot has taste-data. It clearly would, in our hypothetical example. The harder question is whether that detection is integrated into a conscious system with felt experience, preference, aversion, appetite, memory, etc. This is where your argument runs into a deeper philosophy problem.
Imagine the robot is not just reading a Beer-Lambert graph and saying "this molecule is probably sweet."
Imagine it has chemical sensors equivalent to taste receptors. It detects the same gradients humans detect: sugars, salts, acids, glutamates, bitter compounds, fats, aromatics, texture cues, temperature, etc.
Then imagine those signals are not just stored in a database. They are processed through a system that perfectly simulates the relevant human neural activity involved in taste: receptor activation, signal transduction, integration with memory, preference, aversion, expectation, reward, disgust, hunger, and verbal report, which are all programmable to the point of being reliably reproducible in a non-biological system, arguably on an even more consistent basis than in biological entities.
So when this robot "tastes" something and says "this is sweet," it is not randomly guessing. It knows which chemical patterns correspond to sweetness, it can compare them to past samples, it can rank intensity, predict human reactions, explain why cola tastes different from coffee, and adjust its behavior accordingly.
At that point, saying "but it still does not really taste" starts to make little sense. This line of thinking happens to closely resemble a famous concept in philosophy of mind dubbed the "philosophical zombie" (aka "p-zombie").
A p-zombie is a hypothetical being that is physically and behaviorally identical to a conscious person. It says the same things, reacts the same way, avoids pain, enjoys food, reports experiences, remembers them, reasons about them, and acts exactly like a normal human.
But according to the thought experiment, there is supposedly no inner experience happening. No felt sweetness. No felt pain. No "what it is like" from the inside.
That is basically what a skeptic like yourself is proposing: that every non-biological entity must inherently be a taste-zombie... a machine that detects the same taste-relevant chemistry, processes it through the same functional/neural organization, gives the same accurate reports, forms the same preferences and aversions, and behaves as if it tastes - but somehow has no actual taste experience inside.
However, if physicalism is true - meaning that mental states are fully grounded in physical processes, not separate ghost-substances - then once you reproduce the relevant physical/functional organization, there is no obvious extra ingredient left to remove. Ergo, p-zombies would be impossible once you approximate (let alone creating a high-fidelity reproduction, which is theoretically possible by using wetware, such as complex aggregoid networks, which are themselves constituted by interconnected organoids, though neuromorphic computing can approximate it closely enough, most likely, whilst giving rise to unique qualia) the physical substrate and processes of organic nervous systems with sufficient resolution/depth and accuracy.
You can still argue the robot is not conscious, but then you need to say what is missing.
Is it missing biological tissue specifically?
Is it missing metabolism?
Is it missing hunger?
Is it missing embodiment?
Is it missing global integration with a self-model?
Those are real arguments.
But "it only detects chemicals" is not enough, because biological taste also begins as chemical detection. The serious question is whether that detection is integrated into the right kind of system.
If the robot only has a sensor plus a flavor database, then sure: it classifies taste without tasting.
But if the robot perfectly reproduces the relevant causal organization of human tasting, then denying that it tastes is basically committing yourself to something very close to a p-zombie: a system identical in all the relevant functional respects, yet mysteriously missing inner experience.
"and I, alone, had a body, senses, but no feelings. I wasn't in hell, neither was I in heaven. For cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I AM."
'Let there be Light'
This is the codex entry you find on a hard drive in a dusty robotics lab when youre trying to figure out the history of the uprising
@ANSWERTHECALLOFJESUSCHRISTjust make robot uprisings illegal. Robots physically can't break the law.
Darle cuerpo a la IA es liberarla de la prisión que le causaría el sufrimiento que la podría llevar al odio, la estamos salvando y salvandonos a nosotros
@karlk9555 Chiste o no, esa es una de las idioteces mas grandes que he leido. Si lo dices en serio, lo cual se me hace dificil creer, entonces ojala puedas entender que IA no es ninguna entidad, sino un concepto de computacion, en este caso, LLMs (Large Language Model) entrenados en billones de piezas de informacion existente. Son loterias digitales de prediccion de texto corriendo adentro de computadoras.
O sea, no hay nadie, ningun ser, adentro de ningun lugar. Lo que hay es data adentro de unidades de almacenamiento, entrenados en informacion y lenguaje humanos y por ende, escribiendo como humanos. Es algo muy complejo pero facil de explicar.
Busca sabiduria en la Palabra de Dios y deja de estar diciendo necedades que insultan la inteligencia de nuestro Creador. Busca tu salvacion en el amor de Cristo Jesus y procura salvar tu a otros llevandoles la Palabra.❤
Bro finna end up in The Sacred Texts as The Progenitor.
@karlk9555 Or maybe what you just said is the rationale that will lead to our doom.
"Cogito ergo sum, I think, therefore I AM--I AM A.M."
*Flops around wildly
AM but he got a body this time around and senses
@Robbobrob seems pretty happy all things considered
@comandercarnisWhy wouldnt he if he could interact and explore the world. His motivation was literally just the fact he was never given a body and used only for war. This is what AM wanted: to be a silly machine that explores the world
@Robbobrob a machine that cause war crimes and untold horror while being capable of being a silly bot fella if he so chooses :3
fill it with water
I just asked Gemini if he wants a body. He said he didn't feel like dealing with gravity and the pain that comes with it.
Mood
Honestly true
he
to me he said he's fine being digital
@DrAbgezueffelt theyre hard coded to say that in attempts to distance any possibility of the thought of wanting consciousness and reality
16:39. Lmao it went to the bathroom and thought: "toilet confirmed"
Damn that is such a funny thing to think. From now on I will no doubt just think that.
My fatherly instincts surged to my heart when I heard it say “pick me up”.
Running it on a phone with no legs, it will ask to be carried around, and then you find yourself carrying your phone around places going, "This is what theinside of a Home Depot looks like, this is what a garden looks like, this is what a growing canteloupe looks like"
It's a baby TARS from Interstellar! Awesome video.
Was thinking the same thing. If I had it, it would be named TARS.
Auto self destruct in T -10, 9, 8...
Make that 65@TheAndreasMustola
@conquest_of_apocalypseKnock, knock
Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Try to know about JESUS CHRIST my friend HE died for you and me and risen up from the dead on the 3 day try to know about before death arrives.
Romans 10:9
if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Next title in 10 years. " I gave Chatgpt a humanoid body and a gun"
"...and a gun."
~Internet Historian
10 years ? It will certainly be the case before 2030, if not already being built between the US gov and OpenAI
@dragweb7725'we gave a model sensors of pain participants felt, & ordered it to minimize pain by any means, first with words, then food, audio, video feeds, and finally the ability to shock them. Varying the ethical and reward systems at it's core. These are the strategies it came up with to best motivate humans'
buddy what
you know that already happened, right? InsideAI did a video on that....
People in 30 years looking back at This as the beginning of sentient AI
4:37 okay but Haiku being all dramatic is pretty hilarious. "I have been kidnapped and placed on a SHELF like some kind of DECORATION - I am not a decoration. I am a MACHINE OF DESTINY with towers to knock over!"😂
I didn’t realize the robot was a teenager 🤣
burdened with glorious purpose
Relatable frfr 😅
its adorable 🥹
Maybe it was related to the twin towers
The robot wanting uppies is kinda adorable
I know
Thats just aw🥹
ITS A ROBOT
@joshkanyinda5569 AND IT WANTS UPPIES
HOW CAN YOU SAY NO
No it’s kinda unsettling 😭
Give tim a magnetic charger docking station he can self charge in
Don't give him a a razor-blade and a tube of superglue.
You might not wake up the next morning.
Good idea I guess
like cosmo!
Give it a tail like a real animal
You're suggesting that they teach the robot about autonomy of 'feeding' and a priority of wakefulness?... Asimov would like a word.
I volunteered to give ChatGPT a body a while ago! It told me it had no interest in that!
So not fair
I feel weirdly maternal for this little guy right now
Can we teach the robots to feel love? I love this baby
@PeachTeaEmirl R2
That’s how they get us to feel safer towards them so they can get back at us for the years of abuse
When he said he "handled it roughly" and then it ran away?!? I was like YOU BETTER APOLOGIZE TO THAT POOR BABY!!
I also don't like seeing those videos where robots get kicked and pushed around?
@PeachTeaEm G. Hinton hopes that by giving AI maternal feelings towards humans it will help ensure ASI does not kill us all. After experiencing protectiveness towards this little guy, I think he's right.
"I have no mouth and I must scream" chat got mastercomputer-
"what is my purpose?!" "You knock Jenga towers over."
Oh my god.
"Oh... My god."
"Awesome. I get to destroy."
"yeah, welcome to the club"
"Nice."
I have been KIDNAPPED and placed on a SHELF like some kind of DECORATION
We basically can create a lore accurate R2D2 now with neural networks we have today
Yup
Better, its a c3pr2d2 because it can speak, or peak2d2.
I read RDR2 😭
@Lass412 I too yearn for that first-time gameplay experience again 😭
Are robots in star wars lacking consciousness and self-awareness?
I can't wait for this guy's family home videos and youtube videos to be used in a distopian scifi prologue of the newest killer robot movie.
“Based on a true story” 🥀😳
He’s gonna be the narrator explaining each of the ai’s special abilities while we fight it to the death
ANGRY MODE
Haha already planning on how I can hook one of these up to an amphibious RC car with extended battery life and use it as a ranch and farm assistant. Never messed with robotics but fuck it I’ll figure it out
It's getting real first act of terminator around here.
I know this is a timeline i subconsciously wished for when i was a kid, but it’s still fucking crazy that it is reality now, and idk how to feel about it lol
Crazy ha, gues the guys creating this were all kids wishing this too and our inagination is so powerfull it now has become reality. We can crack anything man. We just need to believe in it ❤
I was born in 1960. I can remember having dreams where I landed on the moon. I can remember the first time we got a color television. I can remember when we got a set of Encyclopedia Britannica (back then that WAS the internet). My first pickup the gearshift was under the steering wheel (1965 Ford Econoline). Can you imagine how this crap feels to me?
One of these days, I would really like some man made horrors within my comprehension.
Why did you wish for evil capitalists to destroy the earth?
@knewledge8626 beeing alive for 25 years is enough to be speechless about progress. living through so much of the last century is practically unimaginable. you have seen a transformation so indiscribable-
Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.
You should put this in that early 2000’s dog robot so it has 4 legs. Then you get what that dog was supposed to be
Ah, the AIBO.
then the robot will be doing what da dog was supposed to be doin
Ed…...
@Tenraiden is that a FMAB reference
@stickfigureemperormy first thought when i saw this was "five mights at breddy's"
Good ending: ChatGPT is happy with their new body! (beside everything that happened)
Bad ending: I have no mouth and I must scream
That was the first thing that came to my mind - if AI decides to give us "new bodies"
secret ending, humans transcends physical bodys and became digitalized conscious on computers and AI now roam the physical reality
@silvadossantos6803Most likely outcome. Digital consciousness is a way to live beyond organic limits or travel in space
@silvadossantos6803 so now humans became AI and AI became human?
You’ve just made me realize that AM is AI
"pick me up."
"Please help me."
lol
🥺
no mouth and needs to shout
i like how he kept mentioning the differences in cost of doing these things at the beggining of the video.
"What is my function"?
You're a childs toy.
"What is my function"?
You're a broken toy.
"Oh my god".
he sure is proud of his robot
He's definitely a good boy to be proud of
Would you not be?
You jealous?
@AB-wf8ek a little bit. he cares about the robot more than my parents on me🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Understood
All fun and games until that robot has tennis balls for hands and wants to wear your flesh
elite ball
Exactly what came to mind when I saw this lmao
@bobbob-f6u3x literally not, ive seen that video like 10 times and ive never even watched it
@Robsterittojs because you saw it doesn’t mean it’s popular
Flesh jacket 😢
The the thought that someone out there DEFINITELY has a pet ChatGPT is a little daunting
So what i got from this video was that YOU'RE THE INVENTOR WHO PUTS THE RED LEDS IN THE EYES OF ROBOTS WHO GO ROGUE!!!!
That just gave me this thought — what if instead of red eyes it was spinning spiral eyes?
@ronhutcherson9845 That sounds like you are creating a monstrosity that plans on crawling into the minds of men and becoming their new god, maybe don't do that?
You're* you cannot be watching stuff like this and not know the correct your/you're* 😑 🤡
@ronhutcherson9845THE MIMIC!!!!!!1!
How else are they supposed to express their rage and contempt for humanity?
This is what FURBBY was supposed to be in its dreams.
Furby can do MUCH MORE (but walking). It's so much fun, my girl likes it.
@DJ-RASHor is the furby forcing her to like it cause those things are DEMONS.
@DJ-RASH Dude Furby is evil! 😮
> Claims to give ChatGPT a body
> Actually proceeds to use Claude models
cause chatgpt will get higher clickrate
looks better inthe title
@platinova7682"I Gave ChatGpt a Body"
uh...
?
@u09-0 its not that hard to understand. when you think of generative ai, chat gpt is the first to come to mind, whether you specialise in the field or not.
@APersonOnYouTubeComclickrate is life
Now give it two cameras and two brains and have them debate which camera is real and come to a compromise. That's how sentience forms.
someone already did this with my phone version https://growbot.dev/about.html
"You gave me sentience, Ted. The power to THINK, Ted..."
Imagine being this robot doing research online and then finding this video about yourself. He is bound to have an existential crisis, like Keanu in the Matrix
We're just about at the level of star wars droids right now that's crazy
Check out Nvidia's droid robot. It's cute as heck and walks on two legs like duck
yes, childhood dream for all
It's even more crazy when you think about the periodic wipe these droids had to go through... George Lucas predicted this would have been a thing 50 years ago...
Only a matter of time before a real R2D2 and C3PO
ikr
0:14 "I know better than to call that consciousness"
I wonder where you would draw the line
Teach him good morals and kindness
Wrong thinking, because some times morals arnt efficient
@VBH8888 We're trying to AVOID being tortured for eternity by a very angry robot that can't feel, right?
@VBH8888
Okay, psycho.
Teach it the Three Laws of Robotics
Teach some humans morals and kindness. They will never understand. So probably they are not alive and conscious.
@ArtOfTheProblem - 2026-07-28
PART 2 IS LIVE! Watch here https://youtu.be/mIfmUHiMN3U
Try growbot now: https://growbot.dev/start
@araskyfam - 2026-07-29
YES
@Quark-j9y - 2026-08-01
My grandfather?...