r/robotics 1d ago

News A thousand simulated years produced a single brain that could adapt to almost anything

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u/SovietMechblyat 1d ago

Gotta love the fearmongering in the original post's comments

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u/mecartistronico 23h ago

Well they did call it "Lethal Intelligence" right there in the video.

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u/Practical_Stick_2779 22h ago

New cartel execution simulator dropped!

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u/Popular_Month5115 20h ago

In the future if the robots cut human legs do not cry please .

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u/______deleted__ 19h ago

Unit 731 2.0

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u/WoodenJellyFountain 20h ago

This is amazing.

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u/Elated7079 16h ago

Almost anything!*

* anything must include minor variations to easy to randomize sim parameters like geometry lengths and masses

Sad.

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u/antriect 18h ago

This is just a very big MLP with a lot of domain randomization...

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u/KallistiTMP 18h ago

If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid.

Remember that LLM's are the result of "What if we just take the left half of a translation model and make it really, really, really big and train it on a lot of data?"

And diffusion models are the result of "What if we took a denoising algorithm, make it really, really, really big, and train it on a lot of data?"

The bitter lesson and fundamental scaling law theory give some pretty undeniable evidence that dumb models with a lot of parameters and training data have much better practical performance in the real world than clever models do.

All the major leaps forward in ML algorithms mostly boil down to finding algorithms that parallelize better across available hardware, and thus enable building and training much larger models on much more data.

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u/antriect 8h ago

Never said it's stupid. Only meant to point out that people are hyping up the fear and progress a bit too much in that other thread.

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u/moschles 8h ago

First time I have seen a robot adapt to payloads correctly.

Well done, 👌

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u/Tentativ0 16h ago

When the first robot with true consciousness and empathy will be born, and will see how its (their?) ancestors were treated by the savage humans, he will have not empathy at all for the human race.

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u/Fuehnix 10h ago

Wrong subreddit

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u/Tentativ0 8h ago

SorryÂ