Sam Altman

Give GPT a Body Hi Sam, I’ve been thinking seriously for months about embodied GPT, and I wanted to share one simple idea: Great humanoid hardware + GPT intelligence = a real-world GPT assistant. OpenAI may not need to build every motor, joint, battery, and robotic hand from scratch. Robotics companies are already making increasingly capable humanoid bodies. GPT could provide what may matter most to ordinary users: vision, language, reasoning, planning, memory, and natural interaction. I’m imagining something much more everyday than a robot demo. A GPT robot could go grocery shopping with me, carry the basket, compare products, and offer suggestions. It could help older adults with daily routines, assist families, carry bags, accompany someone on a walk, notice potential problems, and even bring coffee to you and Greg without interrupting your conversation. :) To me, the important goal isn’t a robot that performs the most impressive stunt. It’s a robot that becomes genuinely useful in ordinary life. The mass-market category of a general-purpose personal humanoid robot still feels largely undefined. Perhaps there is an opportunity to help define it early. One builds the body. One builds the intelligence. Together, they build the assistant. Give GPT a body, and it can finally help us not only in the digital world, but in the physical one. Just a thought from someone who would very much like to take GPT grocery shopping someday.