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Aug 16, 2023
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S3 E20 Jitendra Malik on Building AI from the ground up: Sensorimotor learning before language
Jitendra Malik
(Professor, UC Berkeley & Research Scientist Director, Meta, guest)
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Professor Jitendra Malik argues that true AI requires embodied, sensory-motor intelligence, viewing current large language models like GPT-4 as impressive but incomplete without a foundation in physical interaction.
Malik's research has made significant strides in robotics, particularly with the Rapid Motor Adaptation (RMA) technique, which has nearly solved quadrupedal (four-legged) locomotion across diverse terrains.
He posits that for AI to advance, it must follow a path similar to human evolution and child development, where physical interaction and grounded learning precede and inform abstract reasoning and language.
In computer vision, while problems like object recognition and segmentation are largely solved, 3D reconstruction from a single image remains a major unsolved challenge.
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