On embodiment
- Learning like a baby: a plan for an embodied world model
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics ER 2 gives robots a better high-level brain. The part I still think nobody has built is the body-first learning underneath. Here's the research plan I'd run.
3 min reads likes comments - A billion dollars for JEPA
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion to build world models on the JEPA framework. Revisiting what I wrote in 2022, and the one thing I still think the plan is missing.
2 min reads likes comments - Optimus sorts blocks. A toddler falls down a thousand times
Tesla's new video shows Optimus sorting colored blocks with a neural network trained end to end. Curated robot demos and messy child learning, and which one scales.
2 min reads likes comments - A dancer in a spandex suit, and why the humanoid form matters
Tesla's AI Day announced a humanoid robot and then showed a person dancing in a robot costume. The demo was a joke. The idea is right.
2 min reads likes comments - AlphaStar and the fairness of fast hands
DeepMind's StarCraft agent beat two pros 10-0, then lost the one game where it had to move a camera like a person. What counts as intelligence when the body is different.
2 min reads likes comments - Nobody taught it to walk
DeepMind's locomotion agents learned to run, jump and duck from a reward for moving forward and a varied course. The flailing arms are the point.
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