Looking fwd to visiting the great roboticists @USC tomorrow.
@ken_goldberg
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Breathless: Robot-Human Dance Performance at Exploratorium San Francisco
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Breathless: A robot – human dance performance
created by @CatieCuan and @Ken_Goldberg @Exploratorium
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Disagreement on Robotics as Pure Reinforcement Learning Challenge
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I think we agree about scaling and overly optimistic claims, but I don’t agree with your assertion that “Robotics is 100% a RL/sim challenge”.
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Korea leads world with highest industrial robot to worker ratio
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Korea employs 1 industrial robot for every 10 human workers, the highest density in the world (3.5x more than the US). https://
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Ken Goldberg Celebrates Maya Man’s Feminist AI Art Project
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Super proud of @mayaonthenet !
“Man and Hirsch trained a generative adversarial network (GAN) on a series of dolls…which Man sees as representing ‘peak aspirational femininity’.” https://
artnews.com/art-in-america
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Primary Care Physicians: AI Diagnosis and Relationship-Centered Medicine
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“Primary care is….about relationships – understanding the broader context of a person’s life, recognizing patterns over time, and showing up during life’s most vulnerable moments….” AI Diagnosis: A Primary Care Physician's Perspective https://
open.substack.com/pub/jordanshla
in/p/ai-diagnosis-a-primary-care-physicians?selection=ab247fe0-47c8-44dc-b102-01095a9b9987&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web
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Robot Data: Continuous and High-Dimensional Compared to Vision and Language
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And compared with vision and language data, robot data is continuous and high dimensional.
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Robot Data Scale Compared to Language Models: A Significant Gap
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Maybe, but I wouldn’t use the word “soon”: The data in Llama 3 is approx 80,000 times greater than the data collected by π in a year. And compared with vision and language date, robot data is continuous and high dimensional.
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Critique of Article on Foundation Models and Robot Learning
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Interesting article but the author drank the Kool-Aid and never sought out other viewpoints: “Foundation models like GPT-4 have largely subsumed [previous methods] and dexterity will probably soon be subsumed, too.” A Revolution in How Robots Learn.
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UC Berkeley funding and investors support Ambi Robotics growth
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“The funding opportunities from @UCBerkeley @SkyDeck_Cal
, early-stage investors such as @thehousefund Fund and the alumni network were instrumental to building @AmbiRobotics
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