On simulation
- A robot hand with a hundred years of practice
OpenAI's Dactyl learned to rotate a block with a human-like robot hand, entirely in simulation. Why hands, and why randomizing the simulator is the clever part.
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.
2 min reads likes comments - Breath of the Wild is a physics engine you can think in
The new Zelda replaced scripted puzzles with a world that follows consistent rules. It's the best example I've seen of what a training environment for intelligence could look like.
2 min reads likes comments - Every lab is building a playground
DeepMind open-sourced its 3D lab and OpenAI released Universe in the same week. Environments are becoming the new datasets.
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