Post by Rick Schuberthttp://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw
https://apnews.com/article/boston-dynamics-robot-dancing-d684559324a385209c0da353a76363bc
Very entertaining. 150,000+ comments; perhaps a PhD could earned by analysing them :-)
Some sobering facts:
"almost a year and half of choreography, simulation, programming and upgrades
that were capped by two days of filming to produce a video running at less than
3 minutes"
It's unlikely that Boston Dynamics has developed a generalised algorithm that
can independently output an appropriate human-like dance routine for any
given 'pop' record. It seems the team developed (programmed) a collection of
individual dance steps and then were able to rapidly put together an
appropriate and well timed sequence of these dance steps for the video.
At this time, the sequence and timing of these dance steps would have been
determined by humans (not by a freakishly clever algorithm that can input the
sounds of a song and output a stream of appropriate dance step instructions to
the 28 'muscle' actuators of the 'human' robot.)
However, I imagine that such a clever algorithm *is* feasible with the aid of
specific purpose artificial intelligence, after collecting much data that includes
the link between different sounds (music) with different dance steps.