Remote robotic-data farmsIndustry labs power up their robot learning research with parallelization!
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on the Horizon of applied RLHow RL is starting to be used by industry and how RL is heading to a framing more suited for industrial scales.
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Reward is not enoughMulti-agent scenarios make reward maximization a risk. Discussing when, rather than if, we should believe in the Reward Hypothesis.
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How all machine learning becomes reinforcement learningI make the case why people iteratively training any model should learn some core concerns of reinforcement learning.
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Setting ourselves up for exploitation: RL in the wildHow simulator exploitation, a dual of over-optimization, in AI is the canary in the coal mine for what negative implications could come from weakly-bou…
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Counting down until consumer drones are banned in citiesI don’t even like the idea of flying delivery drones, but that will be all we have.
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Clarifying RL: Obscure problem formulations and structure tradeoffsSome debates that will be settled en route to RL being used in all corners of the modern world.
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Decoupling AI from the latent variable of spoken languagesHow English being the language of progress in AI could bias our machine’s minds and what we think they are capable of. Uncoupling AI from our notion of…
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COVID didn’t give us personal robots, it gave us WoebotYes COVID accelerated automated manufacturing and logistics, but robots have not been helping out en masse anywhere else.
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Boston Dynamics 🤖🐈: Studying Athletic Intelligence The acrobatic dance videos are flashy, but what are the actual technical breakthroughs? What is happening to the Korean robotics industry?
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Robotic Startups 2.0: Horizontal ModularityHow behaving as a platform rather than a manufacturer will be the sweet spot for the next generation of robotics companies.
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Reflections on digital technology from a capitol siegeThe digital fallout following the siege on the capital shows we are not keeping up with the pace of technological change.
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