Sporks of AGI
Why the Real Thing is better than the Next Best Thing
Learning and Control
Machine learning for robots and robots for machine learning
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Offline RL and Large Language Models
What if the most significant capabilities of large language models have yet to be unlocked?
General-Purpose Pre-Trained Models in Robotics
Can we (pre-) train policies to control any robot for any task?
Self-Improving Robots and the Importance of Data
How can robots help us figure out machine learning?
An Ecological Perspective on Reinforcement Learning
It has nothing to do with rainforests, at least not necessarily. J. J. Gibson’s seminal work “The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception”…
Understanding the World Through Action: RL as a Foundation for Scalable Self-Supervised Learning
Machine learning systems have mastered a breadth of challenging problems in domains ranging from computer vision to speech recognition and…
How Robots Can Learn End-to-End From Data
The year is 2030, and you’ve purchased a brand-new general-purpose home robot. The robot comes equipped with a few skills that it knows how…
Decisions from Data: How Offline Reinforcement Learning Will Change How We Use ML
Offline RL will change how we make decisions with data. How do offline RL methods work, and what are some open challenges in this field?