AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
SpotMini Encounter
- Pieter Abbeel met SpotMini at a Jeff Bezos event.
- The robot impressively followed Bezos around.
Robot Psychology
- Despite knowing their mechanics, robots evoke a deep psychological connection. Even scripted robots like Pepper, designed with a childlike personality, can create this effect.
Magic of RL
- Reinforcement learning (RL) seems almost magical in its ability to learn from sparse, delayed rewards. It works by teasing apart which actions consistently lead to higher rewards and updates its policy accordingly.