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Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #108
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Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #108

Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that…

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Jul 14, 20201h 37mWatch on YouTube ↗

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July 14, 2020
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1h 37m
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Lex Fridman Podcast
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Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that combine perception and control, scalable algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning, and deep RL algorithms. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors:

EPISODE LINKS: Sergey's Twitter: https://twitter.com/svlevine Sergey's Website: http://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/ Sergey's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8R35rCwAAAAJ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 3:05 - State-of-the-art robots vs humans 16:13 - Robotics may help us understand intelligence 22:49 - End-to-end learning in robotics 27:01 - Canonical problem in robotics 31:44 - Commonsense reasoning in robotics 34:41 - Can we solve robotics through learning? 44:55 - What is reinforcement learning? 1:06:36 - Tesla Autopilot 1:08:15 - Simulation in reinforcement learning 1:13:46 - Can we learn gravity from data? 1:16:03 - Self-play 1:17:39 - Reward functions 1:27:01 - Bitter lesson by Rich Sutton 1:32:13 - Advice for students interesting in AI 1:33:55 - Meaning of life CONNECT:

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Sergey Levine, Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #108 explores Sergey Levine on Robots, Learning, and the Path to Real Intelligence Lex Fridman and Sergey Levine discuss the gap between human and robot intelligence, emphasizing that hardware is nearly there but autonomy and adaptability are far behind.

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