S3 E20 Jitendra Malik on Building AI from the ground up: Sensorimotor learning before language

What's in this episode:

00:00:00 Jitendra
00:02:06 sponsors: Index Ventures and Weights and Biases
00:03:07 ChatGPT and its limits
00:06:56 brain development
00:08:58 developing physical capabilities
00:13:50 LLM first and grounding second or vice-versa
00:17:31 importance of development before the age of 5 in children
00:20:55 simple tasks and robot learning
00:26:45 rapid motor adaptation
00:32:56 terrain changes and adaptation, further possibilities, video examples
00:42:50 less diverse simulators
00:46:38 robot demo with vision
00:50:15 state of computer vision
00:58:33 benchmarking in computer vision
01:04:10 Malik and Hinton ImageNet story
01:07:43 future of AI
01:12:23 advice to new Ph.D. students
01:15:24 Jitendra's trajectory
01:20:09 dive bar outing with Rodney Brooks convincing Jitendra to switch Ph.D. topics 2.5 years in
01:22:06 synergy between academia and industry
01:26:19 relaxing

Links:
http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~malik/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitendr...

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Host: Pieter Abbeel
Production: Bo Obradovic.