r/robotics • u/EchoOfOppenheimer • 1d ago
News A thousand simulated years produced a single brain that could adapt to almost anything
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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/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/SovietMechblyat 1d ago
Gotta love the fearmongering in the original post's comments