AutoGo: a Tutorial
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Eric Jang
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As Rocks May Think
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Leaving 1X
Life update: I've decided to leave 1X.
Ultra Instinct
Visible light occupies a small sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, which spans radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.
Motor Physics
1X released a teaser video of NEO Beta to the world yesterday.
Questions about ARC Prize
ARC Prize is an intelligence benchmark intended to be hard for AI and easy for humans. With a grand prize of $1,000,000, it is currently the most popular contest on Kaggle. Most AI systems (e.g. GPT4) perform much worse than human children on the benchmark.
All Roads Lead to Robotics
robot [ roh-bot ] (noun)
Takeaways from DeepMind's RoboCat Paper
DeepMind Robotics published the paper "RoboCat: A Self-Improving Foundation Agent for Robotic Manipulation (PDF)" earlier this week. I read the 50-page report and summarize in this post what I found to be the most interesting results from the paper. Some of my claims and inferences in this blog post are speculative because they draw from my experience working on similar projects (BC-Z, SayCan,…
Can LLMs Critique and Iterate on Their Own Outputs?
Avi Singh told me yesterday about a recent arxiv preprint, Reflexion, that proposes the following idea: use a LLM to examine whether the output of another generative model is "on the right track" during generation. According to the paper, "the reflection loop aims to help the agent correct common cases of hallucination and inefficiency through trial and error." Reflexion extends the ReAct…
How Can We Make Robotics More like Generative Modeling?
I recently gave a talk (YouTube) at the RSS'22 L-DOD workshop. Here's a lightly edited transcript and slides of the talk in blog form.