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The bitter lesson, physical edition?

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Humans encounter a wide range of tasks as they grow up from infant to toddler and beyond. We don't have separate 'training' vs. 'inference' stages (or at least, it's a very short window). We also generalize from tasks (as the glass jar demo shows). We also appear to have different types of storage for short vs medium vs long-range memory.

We can combine a bunch of individual tasks into complex, coordinated, goal-seeking tasks and keep them around for later use. Like riding a bike, or learning how to drive, or juggle. We can recall those years later, even if we haven't done them for a long time.

Plus, we somehow have a meta-layer of 'common-sense' or 'ethics' that tells us when NOT to do something, or when we SHOULDN'T. Like ride a bike onto pedestrians, or juggle kitchen knives. Hopefully, the research will go into those areas as well.

[–] linsenchip@piefed.zip 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Not as far as I can tell. The blog has citation instructions at the end, fwiw

[–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This video of the robot getting a lego brick stuck on a finger, then removing it, stuck out to me as a very natural-looking motion.

ETA: figured out how to embed!