Is There a Future in Robotic Learning?

In the long run, I think it'll be much easier to use data rather than simulation to enable robots to do things. In NLP or computer vision, nobody in NLP thinks about coding up a simulator to simulate how people produce language. So get humans to perform some tasks, maybe a robotic task or maybe another booking flights from the Internet and then basically do a really good job of emulating behavior. That would be very good to leverage if you're starting a company right now. But if you want highly effective AI systems, I think we need to go beyond that. It harkens back to an earlier quote by Rodney Brooks said imitation is doomed to succeed. He said something like