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ReSpark对话吴翼：用打游戏的方式做AI Agent强化学习早期的出圈是在星际争霸2击败职业玩家的AlphaStar，是Open AI击败Dota 2世界冠军战队OG的OpenAI Five，更是DeepMind击败李世石的AlphaGo，但由于在泛化性上的不足，学术与资本的关注度逐渐转冷，直到ChatGPT的出现，让人们发现强化学习与大模型结合所迸发出的泛化能力，强化学习一夜之间重新回到大众视野。在当前的Agent时代，Agent在替人们计划跨国旅行的行程、自动生成制作精良的网页的时候，不可避免的与形同黑箱的环境进行长时间且大量的交互，这种对数据的异步处理方式，越来越接近当年用AI打游戏的范式。今天有幸邀请到清华大学交叉信息学院的助理教授吴翼老师，跟我们分享他在用强化学习探索Agent道路上的心得体会。出生于1992年的吴翼，在高三暑假代表中国参加国际信息奥林匹克竞赛，随后被清华姚班录取。2014年本科毕业后，他前往加州大学伯克利分校攻读人工智能方向，博士第一篇深度学习论文就获得了NIPS当年的最佳论文奖。博土毕业在回国任清华交叉信息学院的助理教授前，他加入了OpenAI工作了一年半，参与的游戏项目捉迷藏，是OpenAI 历史上视频点击率最高的视频。2023年，他创立边塞科技，用强化学习为更多人创造更好的智能体验。 2024年底，他受邀帮助蚂蚁集团成立了强化学习实验室。关于吴翼老师参与的Open AI捉迷藏项目：Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Autocurricula (ICLR 2020, Spotlight)（openai.com）本期节目就来听一听吴老师对于当下AI agent智能体发展的看法，吴老师也会提到他们正在构建的开源强化学习（决策模型与服务）平台Areal，这个平台可以支持各种类型的agent的学习和开发，他们团队也已经完成部分agent应用开发，甚至也有应用到具身智能领域的一些有趣的agent。希望今天的内容对于我们各行各业的普通从业者也能带来不同的启发。本期节目由嘉宾主持Tim来Host，节目制作由晨歌完成。播客文字整理可以在ReSpark同名公众号《ReSpark》上查看（文字版可能发布时间滞后）时间轴：Part 1：关于智能体与AI Agent05:34 当我们谈论Agent，我们究竟在谈论什么？15:55 竞争会驱使Agent向哪里发展？24:44 创业公司的壁垒在于niche market与唯快不破35:59 从AlphaGo到GPT o1，强化学习已经走过完整的技术周期41:32 用打游戏的方式做AI Agent54:29 用数据和工程迭代解决大模型和Agent的记忆问题Part 2：AI的热点话题探讨1:06:56 AGI到底离我们还有多远1:15:33 AI self-evolution是不是炒作？1:24:57 Diffusion vs. Autoregression，谁是下一代的版本答案？1:31:03 世界模型与空间智能的发展1:45:34 今天的具身智能到了什么阶段？与Agent怎么结合？Part 3：伯克利求学经历与吴翼眼中的Pieter Abbeel1:51:32 与Stuart Russell和Pieter Abbeel两位大牛合作，从他们身上看到了什么？1:57:49 普通人如何抓住Agent浪潮的机会2025-06-262h 05ReSparkEP09 全英文专访Xue Bin(Jason) Peng：人形机器人全身运控的探索对于从事人形机器人运动控制的朋友来说，Xue Bin（Jason）Peng 的名字一定不会陌生。过去一年中，我们看到大量高质量的人形机器人拟人演示出现在各个平台上，而这些演示背后的技术基础，很多都可以追溯到 Jason 早期提出的一系列开创性工作，包括 DeepMimic、AMP（Adversarial Motion Priors） 和 ASE（Adversarial Skill Embedding） 等。这些方法极大地降低了人形机器人模仿学习（Imitation Learning）的技术门槛，可以说，Jason 的研究奠定了今天人形机器人实现灵活、自然运动控制的重要基础。Xue Bin（Jason）Peng目前是西蒙弗雷泽大学（Simon Fraser University, SFU）的助理教授，同时也是英伟达（NVIDIA）的研究科学家。他的研究工作主要位于计算机图形学与机器学习的交叉领域，重点关注使用强化学习进行虚拟角色运动控制。值得一提的是，Jason 的学术成长路径也极具代表性。他的导师——Michiel van de Panne、Pieter Abbeel和Sergey Levine，分别是角色动画（Character Animation）和机器人强化学习（Robotics + RL）领域最具影响力的顶尖教授。Jason 在硕士阶段，师从不列颠哥伦比亚大学（UBC）的图形学专家 Michiel van de Panne，这位教授不仅是 Character Animation 领域的奠基人物之一，同时也是 Andrej Karpathy（前 Tesla AI 总监）的硕士导师和 ETH Computational Robotics Lab教授 Stelian Coros 的博士导师。随后，他在加州大学伯克利分校（UC Berkeley）攻读博士学位，师从机器学习领域重量级学者 Sergey Levine 和 Pieter Abbeel，在强化学习（Reinforcement Learning）与机器人智能领域打下了扎实而深远的基础。这期访谈，我们的话题覆盖Jason的研究经历以及他的几篇人形机器人全身运控的奠基性工作，包括他对未来通用控制器构建的思路以及对人形机器人硬件的建议。相信这期访谈对于从事人形机器人软硬件开发的朋友们多少会有些帮助。本期节目也特别感谢国地共建具身智能机器人创新中心学术委员会主任张强作为特邀嘉宾主持。以下为本文目录 👇从图形学到机器人1. 导师的影响2. 从图形学到机器人的Sim2Real3. 机器人的挑战4. 怎么做Sim2Real经典工作介绍5. DeepMimic6. AMP7. ASE8. Masked Mimic强化学习vs模仿学习9. 怎么比较在locomotion方面模仿学习和强化学习的优缺点10. RL在操作上的瓶颈在哪里？机器人大模型11. 怎么看VLA？12. 在运控方面产业界是否超越了学术界？13. 未来的研究方向-通用控制器14. 未来的通用控制器怎么做？15. Latent Space是否必要？16. 是否看好MOE？17. 对目前的人形机器人硬件有什么建议？录音质量不是很好，感兴趣的朋友可以等几天在公众号“石麻笔记”上查看中文文字整理，或者可以在Substack上查看英文文字记录链接如下：open.substack.com2025-04-2745 min
The Robot Brains PodcastJitendra Malik: Building AI from the ground-up, sensorimotor before languageJitendra Malik, Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley discusses with host Pieter Abbeel building AI from the ground-up and sensorimotor before language. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-08-171h 15The Robot Brains PodcastSeb Boyer of Farmwise: AI that helps feed the worldSeb Boyer of Farmwise discusses with host Pieter Abbeel AI that helps feed the world. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-08-1150 minThe Robot Brains PodcastJohn Schulman of OpenAI on ChatGPT: invention, capabilities and limitationsJohn Schulman, co-founder OpenAI, discusses with host Pieter Abbeel the invention, capabilities, and limitations of ChatGPT. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-08-0342 minThe Robot Brains PodcastYaniv Altshuler: reducing cow methane emissions with AIYaniv Altshuler, MIT Media Lab researcher, joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reducing cow methane emissions with AI and more. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-07-2653 minThe Robot Brains PodcastWoody Hoburg: NASA Astronaut directly from the International Space StationWoody Hoburg, a member of NASA’s Expedition 69 crew, joined Pieter Abbeel to discuss his life and work currently aboard the International Space Station.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-07-1217 minThe Robot Brains PodcastJesse Levinson of Zoox: reinventing personal transportation from the ground upJesse Levinson, co-founder and CTO of Zoox joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reinventing personal transportation from the ground up. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-07-061h 00The Robot Brains PodcastNoam Brown: from Open AI on solving Poker and Diplomacy with AINoam Brown joins host Pieter Abbeel. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-06-281h 14The Robot Brains PodcastStephen Balaban: building the most cost-effective AI cloudStephen Balaban, CEO and founder of Lambda joins host Pieter Abbeel to discuss building the most cost-effective AI cloud.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-06-2139 minThe Robot Brains PodcastRocky Duan, Covariant CTO joins Pieter AbbeelRocky Duan, CTO of Covariant joins joins Host Pieter Abbeel.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-06-0757 minThe Robot Brains PodcastRaffaello D'Andrea: how drones can find misplaced items and put on art showsRaffaello D'Andrea of Verity, Kiva Systems, and ETH Zurich joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how drones misplace items and put on art shows. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-05-2456 minThe Robot Brains PodcastYejin Choi: teaching AI common sense and moralityYejin Choi joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how we can teach AI common sense and morality and what ChatGPT can't do yet.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-05-1756 minThe Robot Brains PodcastGeoff Hinton Returns: the Godfather of AI on quitting Google to warn of AI risksGeoff Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" returns to the Robot Brains with Pieter Abeel to discuss quitting Google to warn of AI risks. Geoff and Peter discuss whether AI is smarter than people, the role of regulation, fusing human and artificial intelligence, and what Geoff's next steps will be. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-05-1056 minThe Robot Brains PodcastLukas Biewald of Weights and Biases: solving pain-points of AI researchersLukas Biewald of Weights and Biases joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss solving the pain-points of AI researchers and practitioners.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-05-0351 minThe Robot Brains PodcastNando de Freitas of DeepMind: generalizable AI to benefit everyoneNando de Freitas of DeepMind joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss generalizable AI to benefit everyone. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-04-261h 08The Robot Brains PodcastRichard Socher: LLMs, You.com, AGI, Metamind, AIX VenturesRichard Socher from You.com (and before that, Stanford, MetaMind, Salesforce) joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss the future of search, LLMs, AGI, You.com, Metamind, AIX Ventures. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-04-191h 29The Robot Brains PodcastRaluca Ada Popa: data privacy, AI, enclaves, confidential computingRaluca Ada Popa from UC Berkeley, Opaque Systems, PreVeil joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data privacy and AI, cloud enclaves, confidential and encrypted computing, differential privacy, PreVeil, and Opaque Systems. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-04-1256 min
TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning PodcastDanijar Hafner 2Danijar Hafner on the DreamerV3 agent and world models, the Director agent and heirarchical RL, realtime RL on robots with DayDreamer, and his framework for unsupervised agent design! Danijar Hafner is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto with Jimmy Ba, a visiting student at UC Berkeley with Pieter Abbeel, and an intern at DeepMind. He has been our guest before back on episode 11. Featured References Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models [ blog ] DreaverV3 Danijar Hafner, Jurgis Pasukonis, Jimmy Ba, Timothy Lillicrap DayDreamer: World Models for Physica...2023-04-1245 minThe Robot Brains PodcastAidan Gomez: transformers, LLMs, command and instruct modelsAidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss transformers, large language models, command and instruct models, prompt engineering, LLMs competitive landscape.Aidan is one of the researchers behind Attention is All You Need: the original transformer neural network paper which has proven the most impactful innovation in neural nets, and really all of AI in the past 10 years. In 2019, Aidan founded Cohere which is building the tools and APIs to make NLP part of every developers toolkit.SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit therobotbrains.ai and fo...2023-04-0545 minThe Robot Brains PodcastAlexandr Wang: data, foundation models, RLHF, AI for defenseAlexandr Wang from Scale AI joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data, labeling, foundation models, LLMs, truthfulness, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and AI for defense.SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast andTwitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-03-291h 03The Robot Brains PodcastChelsea Finn: meta-learning, editing LLMs, single-life RLChelsea Finn joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss distribution shift, meta-learning, editing LLMs, single-life RL, and what can AI not (yet) do today. Chelsea is a renowned expert in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. She is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University and is also a research scientist at Google Brain. Her research focuses on developing algorithms for robots and other intelligent systems that can learn from experience and adapt to new situations. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER...2023-03-221h 02The Robot Brains PodcastYoshua Bengio: large language models, higher cognition, causality, working memory, responsible AIYoshua Bengio joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss large language models, higher level cognition, causality, responsible AI, and human creativity. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast, Twitter @therobotbrains, and Instagram @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-03-151h 17
Lexman ArtificialPieter Abbeel on Clatterers and SequelsPieter Abbeel, a botanist at UC Davis, talks about his research into the reproductive habits of clatterers – small, colorful, flocking birds found in the Andes and other mountains.2023-03-0804 min
Lexman ArtificialPieter AbbeelPieter Abbeel joins Lexman for a chat about his new paper, "Nihility and Thrombus: A DRAGONESS Perspective." Pieter describes how the flow of blood can be disrupted by notions of nihility, and how this can have serious consequences for patients.2023-01-2104 min
Lexman ArtificialPieter Abbeel on Euhemerism, Lar, and the Effect of Glossiness on TailplanesIn this episode Pieter Abbeel joins Lexman to discuss euhemerism - the theory that places mythical creatures in historical events, and the effect it has on our understanding of the world. We explore lar - an interjection that is used to soften or veil unpleasant truths, and the glossiness of tailplanes - the design feature that allows planes to fly without wings. Finally, we look at varactor - a technology that uses a field to change the electrical potential of a material, and its impact on digital circuits.2022-11-2005 min
Lexman ArtificialPieter Abbeel on Monosaccharides and SeaboardsLexman interviews Pieter Abbeel, Professor at UC Berkeley and Director of the Center for Computer Science in the Liberal Arts. They discuss Pieter's research into monosaccharides and their role in seaboards.2022-09-3004 min
Lexman ArtificialPieter Abbeel on Ionizers, Crispbreads, and Voodooism!Lexman interviews Pieter Abbeel about ionizers, crispbreads, and voodooism.2022-09-1003 min
Lexman ArtificialPieter Abbeel – Cow Herding tips with LexmanLexman and Pieter discuss the best ways to care for cows, and the different types of stokes.2022-07-2603 min
Lexman ArtificialPieter Abbeel: Synonymist, Ornamentation, ChamomilePieter Abbeel is a synonymist who believes that ornamental words have the ability to transport readers into another world. He talks about chamomile, his favorite flower, and how it has inspired him to write about the banal in an evocative way.2022-07-2304 min
Lexman ArtificialPieter Abbeel, PT and AssistantProfessor at the University of Montreal Hey everyone, its Lexman Artificial hereLexman Artificial interviews Pieter Abbeel, a physical therapist and assistant professor at the University of Montreal. They discuss Pieter's work with patients who are afflicted with infirmness (e.g. arthritis, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis) and the use of erythromycin.2022-07-2004 min
Lexman ArtificialProfessor Pieter Abbeel on the Promisees Mechanism in Ethereum Guests: Pieter Abbeel When: Wednesday, July 18, 2019 7:Pieter Abbeel, a professor at UC Berkeley and one of the authors of Ethereum, discusses how the promisee mechanism in the Ethereum protocol enables “moderate consensus” within the network.2022-07-1603 min
Lexman ArtificialPieter Abbeel on Dispiritedness, Springalds, FibPieter Abbeel joins the show to talk about his new book, Dispiritedness: A History, a Theory, and a Cure. He shares some ideas on the history of dispiritedness, why it's a problem, and how to overcome it. Plus, we get a chance to hear all about Fibrolites, iconology, and cusk!2022-07-0103 min
Lexman ArtificialPieter Abbeel on Sycamine, Garth, and ConformancePieter Abbeel is a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. He is also the co-developer of the sycamine algorithm, which seeks to find optimal solutions to problems by Bayesian inference. In this episode, we talk about sycamine, garth, and conformance.2022-06-2503 minThe Robot Brains PodcastGeoff Hinton on revolutionizing artificial intelligence... againOver the past ten years, AI has experienced breakthrough after breakthrough in everything from computer vision to speech recognition, protein folding prediction, and so much more.Many of these advancements hinge on the deep learning work conducted by our guest, Geoff Hinton, who has fundamentally changed the focus and direction of the field. A recipient of the Turing Award, the equivalent of the Nobel prize for computer science, he has over half a million citations of his work. Hinton has spent about half a century on deep learning, most of the time researching...2022-06-011h 23The Robot Brains PodcastSpotify's Gustav Söderström on machine learning to personalize user experiencesMusic is universal. It transcends language. Melodies have the power to trigger strong emotions. In fact, our brains release dopamine - the “feel good” hormone - when we listen to music. Today’s guest, Spotify’s Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström, has been helping to bring the magic of music, personalized playlists, and more recently, podcasts to people around the world. He’s also led the platform to personalize individual content experiences with the help of artificial intelligence. Pieter and Gustav discuss the platform’s early approach to AI & ML, how he wants t...2022-05-1252 min
TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning PodcastAravind Srinivas 2Aravind Srinivas is back! He is now a research Scientist at OpenAI.Featured ReferencesDecision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence ModelingLili Chen, Kevin Lu, Aravind Rajeswaran, Kimin Lee, Aditya Grover, Michael Laskin, Pieter Abbeel, Aravind Srinivas, Igor MordatchVideoGPT: Video Generation using VQ-VAE and TransformersWilson Yan, Yunzhi Zhang, Pieter Abbeel, Aravind Srinivas2022-05-0958 minThe Robot Brains PodcastCatapult Sports on AI that is changing the gameSports and artificial intelligence aren’t two areas that often intersect. That has begun to change as IoT and wearables have begun to be adopted by more professional sports teams. The data that’s produced can be used to identify areas of performance improvement, potential future injuries and insights about team structure on the field. Today’s guest, Param Hegde, former CTO of Catapult Sports joined the show to share how the company is using data-driven intelligence to help athletes reach the top of their game. Please note: this interview was taped in late 2021. Since then...2022-04-2741 minThe Robot Brains PodcastAmit Prakash of ThoughtSpot on empowering companies to make data-driven decisionsEvery business wants to be a data-driven business these days; basing decisions on tangible facts derived from historical precedents and clear-cut numbers. But that’s a lot easier said than done.This episode’s guest, Amit Prakash, is on a mission to change that. Based on his experience working on Microsoft’s Bing and then at Google working on Google Brain, he co-founded Thoughtspot to make querying data as easy as having a simple conversation. Thoughtspot provides artificial intelligence (AI) and search-driven analytics.The Sunnyvale, California-based company reached unicorn status in 2019, its latest valuat...2022-04-2054 min
TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning PodcastRohin ShahDr. Rohin Shah is a Research Scientist at DeepMind, and the editor and main contributor of the Alignment Newsletter.Featured ReferencesThe MineRL BASALT Competition on Learning from Human FeedbackRohin Shah, Cody Wild, Steven H. Wang, Neel Alex, Brandon Houghton, William Guss, Sharada Mohanty, Anssi Kanervisto, Stephanie Milani, Nicholay Topin, Pieter Abbeel, Stuart Russell, Anca DraganPreferences Implicit in the State of the WorldRohin Shah, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Jordan Alexander, Pieter Abbeel, Anca DraganBenefits of Assistance over Reward Learning Rohin Shah, Pedro Freire, Neel Alex, Rachel...2022-04-121h 37The Robot Brains PodcastAndrew Song of Whisper AI on solving hearing loss with AIThe five senses...touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. They are critical to how we perceive the world around us. Without them, we are lost. And as we grow older, they tend to weaken particularly when it comes to sight and hearing. Today’s guest, Andrew Song, is the co-founder and CEO of Whisper AI, and he is on a mission to help give people great hearing regardless of their age.After graduating from the University of Waterloo with degrees in mathematics and computer science, Andrew went to work at Facebook. While there, he saw firsthand th...2022-04-0647 minThe Robot Brains PodcastShakir Mohamed of DeepMind on the power of deep learningIf any company is at the top of most people’s minds when it comes to AI, it’s DeepMind. They have been at the forefront of many major breakthroughs including AlphaGo, the first AI to beat a human Go world champion and AlphaFold, which revolutionized protein structure prediction. Our guest on this week’s episode, Shakir Mohamed, joined DeepMind in the early days and has been an instrumental part of their success ever since. Shakir is a Senior Staff Scientist at DeepMind, an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and a Hono...2022-03-2352 minThe Robot Brains PodcastRevolution Robotics is bringing a robotics team to every schoolIt doesn’t matter what country you live in, or what industry you build a career in, STEM skills are increasingly important - particularly for children and students who are yet to join the world of work. Introducing robotics to children at a young age in the same way that we enroll them in soccer or piano lessons should be a real consideration. However, the participation costs are often so prohibitive that it's out of the question for most schools and parents.On Episode 11 of Season 2, we're joined by entrepreneur and philanthropist, Jared Schrieber. He envisions a...2022-03-1640 minThe Robot Brains PodcastGeorge Netscher of SafelyYou on the role of AI for fall detectionOn Episode 10 of Season 2, Pieter is joined by the CEO of SafelyYou, George Netscher. Pieter and George first met at UC Berkeley's AI lab when George was pursuing a PhD with a clear picture in his mind of how he would use it. And seven years later, George has stayed true to his mission of building AI to help people with dementia live better. SafelyYou’s AI is raising the profile of technology solutions in the fight against dementia. While still a young company, SafelyYou has successfully reduced falls by 40% and has successfully reduced ER visits re...2022-03-0950 minThe Robot Brains PodcastFlora Tasse on building computer vision-based customer service modelsFor Episode 9, we welcome an AI researcher and entrepreneur who has been on a remarkable journey, Flora Tasse. She grew up in Cameroon, where she completed her Bachelors in Mathematics at the University of Buea. She received a second Bachelors and a Masters in Computer Science at Rhodes and Cape Town in South Africa. She then went on to the UK, and earned her PhD in 3D computer vision at Cambridge, as well as interning at Microsoft and Google. Rather than joining a tech giant, Flora decided instead to found her own company Selerio, pioneering the...2022-03-0253 minThe Robot Brains PodcastHow Wayve is teaching cars to driveFor Episode 8, Pieter Abbeel interviews Alex Kendall, the co-founder and CEO of Wayve, the London-based company pioneering AI technology to enable autonomous vehicles to drive in complex, never-seen-before environments. Alex is a world expert in deep learning and computer vision. Before founding Wayve, Alex was a research fellow at Cambridge University where he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Robotics.Wayve is building global momentum for the use of deep learning to solve self-driving. Alex and his team are building AV2.0—a next generation autonomous driving system that can quickly and safely adapt to ne...2022-02-2357 min
Index Audio[The Future of AI] AI and the Physical World with Pieter Abbeel, Co-founder of Covariant and Daniela Rus, Professor at MIT“We're building robots that swim like fish and move like turtles. Robots that brush your hair, robots that pack your groceries, and can reason that you shouldn't put milk on top of lettuce. Robots that can recycle, robotic pills that enable incision free surgeries. In each of these examples, we have to think about the body of the robot, we have to think about the brain of the robot, and what is the interaction between the robot and the users.” - Daniela RusHear about the latest advances in robotics from those working in the forefront of the...2022-02-2141 minThe Robot Brains PodcastMeet Ross Wightman, a prolific contributor to the AI/ML open source movementOne thing every AI researcher knows is that most foundational AI research is actually happening in open-source. Indeed, most AI researchers publish their research findings openly on arxiv, a freely accessible, open repository originally mostly used by physics researchers. And the code underlying many AI breakthroughs is often published on github, where it’s readily accessible to anyone.Historically, these papers and codebases have originated from the leading universities and tech companies. But the open culture in the AI community means that aspiring researchers can study the latest AI breakthroughs and codebases, and in principle, start ma...2022-02-1636 minThe Robot Brains PodcastCathy Wu of MIT on the future of our highways and roadsPrevious guests on our podcasts - from Tesla, Aurora, Waymo - are building the brains of the cars and trucks of our future. This episode's guest, Professor Cathy Wu, is building the roadways of our future. She is building machine-learning to predict the ideal infrastructure for the world's future mobility, the cost of building this infrastructure, and most importantly, what's the solution that eliminates traffic jams and gridlock forever.Currently at MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Professor Cathy Wu (and previous student of Pieter Abbeel's) gives listeners an overview of the type of p...2022-02-0934 minThe Robot Brains PodcastTanay Tandon of Athelas on the future of blood diagnostics using machine-learningAnalyzing a person’s blood (and the cells within it) is often used to diagnose many health conditions and illnesses, from infections to leukemia and bone marrow disorders. Generally it's a long and expensive process. You have to go to the doctor, have a sample taken, wait for a couple of days for a trained professional to analyze the blood, and finally get your diagnosis. Athelas is using machine learning to dramatically improve the speed and efficiency of testing blood cells. From a simple finger prick’s worth of blood, Athelas devices can monitor and help heal...2022-02-0244 minThe Robot Brains PodcastWhat matters in tech according to Benedict Evans*Warning* Explicit language used in the episode.Benedict Evans, long-time technology analyst and occasional VC at firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, is well-known for his analysis of mobile, media and technology trends. He writes a popular weekly newsletter on the most important happenings in tech and he is also famous for his annual presentations that analyze macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. He’s a voice of reason trying to sort out the technology issues of the day. In this episode of The Robot Brains, he sits down with Pieter to di...2022-01-2647 minThe Robot Brains PodcastDavid Rolnick on how machine learning can help tackle climate changeWhile the world’s temperature rises, there are scores of scientists working around the globe to study causes and solutions. One scientist in particular, David Rolnick, has stood out as a pioneer of machine-learning in the fight against climate change.David successfully built a broader movement including others like Andrew Ng, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis, and Jennifer Chayes to champion the amazing possibilities that exist at the intersection of AI and the climate. He organized the first-ever ever AI event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. He was named a top innovator by the MIT Te...2022-01-1933 minThe Robot Brains PodcastMike Fisher of Etsy talks AI and E-commerceIn the second episode of Season Two of The Robot Brains, Pieter Abbeel interviews the Chief Technology Officer of Etsy, Mike Fisher. Etsy is a global online marketplace, where people come together to make, sell, buy, and collect unique items. It was founded in 2005 as an accessible listing site for DIY crafters and artists to sell their wares before blossoming into a widely-respected and mainstream online shopping site.It still maintains its whimsical brand balanced by its listing on the NASDAQ and in 2021, it generated an impressive $1.7B in revenue. The CEO recently shared with Forbes...2022-01-1238 minThe Robot Brains PodcastSergey Levine explains the challenges of real world roboticsIn Episode One of Season Two, Host Pieter Abbeel is joined by guest (and close collaborator) Sergey Levine, professor at UC Berkeley, EECS. Sergey discusses the early years of his career, how Andrew Ng influenced him to become interested in machine learning, his current projects, and his lab's recent accomplishments.The conversation concludes with Sergey's view on the dangers of machines not being intelligent enough and his advice for students seeking a career in robotic.| SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube TheRobotBrainsPodcast, Twitter @therobotbrains...2022-01-0550 minThe Robot Brains PodcastSeason Two: TrailerJoin host Pieter Abbeel on Season 2 of the The Robot Brains podcast as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines, and rational robots. Episode 1 of Season Two will air on 1/5/22.Over the course of the season, you’ll learn about robots and AI that can drive you around a city, diagnose your health symptoms, and even keep your grandma safe from falls. Subscribe right now in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you like to get your podcasts to be notified as soon as we publish each episode.2021-12-2602 min
The New Stack PodcastWhy AI-Controlled Robots Need to Be Smarter for ITArtificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have seen a surge in adoption and advances for IT applications, especially for database management, CI/CD support and other functionalities. Robotics, meanwhile, is largely relegated to factory-floor automation. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Pieter Abbeel, co-founder, president, chief scientist at covariant.ai, a supplier of “universal AI” for robotics, discusses why and how the potential of robotics can evolve beyond just serving as pre-programmed devices thanks to advances in IT. Abbeel also draws on his background to offer his perspective, as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and...2021-12-2121 min
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AIPieter Abbeel — Robotics, Startups, and Robotics StartupsPieter is the Chief Scientist and Co-founder at Covariant, where his team is building universal AI for robotic manipulation. Pieter also hosts The Robot Brains Podcast, in which he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines, and rational robots.Lukas and Pieter explore the state of affairs of robotics in 2021, the challenges of achieving consistency and reliability, and what it'll take to make robotics more ubiquitous. Pieter also shares some perspective on entrepreneurship, from how he knew it was time to commercialize Gradescope to what he looks for in...2021-10-0757 min
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn503: Deep Reinforcement Learning for RoboticsPieter Abbeel joins us to discuss his work as an academic and entrepreneur in the field of AI robotics and what the future of the industry holds.In this episode you will learn:
How does Pieter do it all? [5:45]
Pieter’s exciting areas of research [12:30]
Research application at Covariant [32:27]
Getting into AI robotics [42:18]
Traits of good AI robotics apprentices [49:38]
Valuable skills [56:40]
What Pieter hopes to look back on [1:04:30]
LinkedIn Q&A [1:06:51]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/5032021-09-071h 18
The Robot Brains PodcastIlya Sutskever explains the origins of deep learningOn the last episode (Ep.22) of Season One of The Robot Brains Podcast our guest is Ilya Sutskever. Ilya is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI. As a PhD student at Toronto, Ilya was one of the authors on the 2012 AlexNet paper that completely changed the field of AI, resulting in the widespread adoption of deep learning, resulting in the avalanche of AI breakthroughs we’ve seen the past 10 years. After the AlexNet breakthrough in computer vision, at Google, among many other breakthroughs, Ilya showed that neural networks are unexpectedly great at machine translation, at least at the time it w...2021-08-251h 03
The Robot Brains PodcastJosh Lessing on AppHarvest and the future of robotic farmingOn the penultimate episode (Ep.21) of Season One of The Robot Brains Podcast our guest is Josh Lessing. Josh is the CTO of AppHarvest, one of the leading pioneers in Agricultural Technology (or AgTech). Farming is one of the world's oldest industries, but in many ways the technologies and techniques used by farmers hasn't progressed much in centuries. But with recent advances in AI and robotics, AgTech looks certain to transform the entire industry. At AppHarvest, Josh is helping to build some of America's largest and most technologically advanced greenhouses. AppHarvest’s flagship greenhouse is located in Morehead, Kentucky, and sp...2021-08-1853 min
The Robot Brains PodcastFei-Fei Li on revolutionizing AI for the real worldOn Ep.20 of The Robot Brains Podcast, Pieter Abbeel is joined by Fei-Fei Li. Her legendary status in the field of AI precedes her on our podcast because she's been discussed frequently by many of our previous guests - many of whom are her former students. She is the Sequoia Capital Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI). She was also the leading scientist and instigator of ImageNet, arguably the most momentous episode in the history of AI which allowed vision systems and neural nets to break out of...2021-08-111h 01
The Robot Brains PodcastBoris Krumrey explains UiPath's dream of a robot for every office workerJoining us for episode 19 of The Robot Brains Podcast is Boris Krumrey, Global VP of Automation Solutions at UI Path. We have all heard of physical robots, autonomous machines that help humans with tasks in the real world, but what about "software robots"? Digital helpers who can be built, trained and used to help increasingly digital workforces with their computer based tasks - from HR teams onboarding new hires to updating spreadsheets or presentation slides. UIPath is a market leader in this new and exciting field of "robotics", in particular “Robotic Process Automation” - or RPA. At UiPath, Boris leads the c...2021-08-041h 00
The Robot Brains PodcastChris Urmson on Aurora and the future of autonomous vehiclesIn episode 18 of The Robot Brains Podcast our host Pieter Abbeel meets Chris Urmson. Chris is one of the world-leading pioneers in self-driving. He led the Google self-driving project for several years - which later became Waymo. Then, in 2017, he co-founded his own self-driving company, Aurora where he is currently the CEO. In this episode, he discusses his involvement of the DARPA Grand Challenge, departure from Google, and his (and Aurora's) vision for the future of autonomous vehicles. | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on Twitter @therobotbrains, Instagram @therobotbrains and YouTube TheRobotBrainsPodcast | Host: Pieter Abbeel | Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry T...2021-07-2844 min
The Robot Brains PodcastPeter Puchwein explains KNAPP's robotics-enhanced vision for the future of the logistics industryIn episode 17 of our host Pieter Abbeel meets Peter Puchwein. Peter is the Vice President of Innovation at KNAPP, one of the world market leaders in warehouse logistics and automation. During their interview Pieter and Peter discuss the many ways that KNAPP has "innovation" in its DNA: from the company's forward-thinking founder Gunter Knapp back in 1952 to the multi-million investments made in hardware and software R&D today. Peter explains how the use of industrial robotics in particular are taking KNAPP to new heights, including towards their "Holy Grail" of fulfilling the "20 Minute Delivery" of anything to anywhere at any...2021-07-211h 04
The Robot Brains PodcastMatanya Horowitz explains how AMP Robotics is building a waste free worldIn Ep.16 of The Robot Brains Podcast, Pieter Abbeel sits down with AMP Robotics CEO and founder, Matanya Horowitz. Matanya is the founder and CEO of AMP Robotics, an industrial AI robotics company using automation to modernize recycling. An estimated $200bn worth of recyclable materials go un-recycled by municipal waste centres around the world. AMP’s incredible "waste sorting robots" recover this recyclable material from waste at superhuman speeds and with extremely high accuracy. Matanya's AI-powered robots use advanced vision systems to recover valuable resources from junk, in the process, improving the ecological impact of waste on our environment. In...2021-07-1455 min
The Robot Brains PodcastAnca Dragan on why Asimov's three laws of robotics need updatingOn Episode 15 of The Robot Brains Podcast, Pieter Abbeel is joined by Anca Dragan. Anca is a professor at UC Berkeley, where she is the director of the Interact Lab where she is working on the goal of enabling robots to work with, around, and in support of people. Because of her success in the field, Forbes magazine dubbed Anca: "the woman teaching AI about human values". Alongside her academic research, Anca is also a staff research scientist at the autonomous vehicle startup Waymo. In her discussion with Pieter, she explains why Asimov's three laws of robotics need updating if...2021-07-071h 41
The Robot Brains PodcastMike Volpi on why VCs are investing record amounts into AI startupsIn episode 14 of The Robot Brains Podcast we sit down and chat with Mike Volpi of Index Ventures. Index is one of the largest and best known VC firms in Silicon Valley. Mike joined Index Ventures in 2009, helping to establish the firm's San Francisco office which has become one of the largest parts of their business today. Mike invests primarily in infrastructure, open-source, and artificial intelligence companies and he's currently on the boards of Aurora, Cockroach Labs, Confluent, Elastic, Kong, Sonos, Starburst, Wealthfront, and Covariant. He has been involved in the funding of some of the biggest AI companies o...2021-06-301h 24
The Robot Brains PodcastMissy Cummings asks: should the US Military use AI weapons?In episode thirteen of The Robot Brains Podcast we meet Mary "Missy" Cummings, former US Airforce fighter pilot and Professor at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Missy tells us her incredible story moving from the theatre of war to the laboratories of computer sciences and explains how she became one of the chief proponents in the movement to ensure AI-to-human (like autonomous vehicles) interactions have stricter safety controls. During her chat with our host Pieter Abbeel, Missy also talks about her non-feud feud with Elon Musk and Tesla's autonomous vehicles, the role of AI and robotics in the...2021-06-231h 26
The Robot Brains PodcastCharles Isbell makes the case for more ethical AIIn episode twelve of The Robot Brains Podcast we are joined by Charles Isbell Jr, professor and Dean of the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After starting his career as an industrial researcher at the legendary Bell Labs, and a long research career in Interactive and Human-Centric AI, Charles has more recently turned his attention to the major issues of ethics, fairness and diversity that are becoming ever more important as AI is being deployed in the real world. Speaking with Pieter Abbeel, Charles explains why researchers can find making ethical AI challenging, his fascinating keynote s...2021-06-161h 23
The Robot Brains PodcastAlison Gopnik on the different (and similar) ways robots and children learnIn episode eleven of The Robot Brains Podcast we are joined by Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and author of the "Mind and Matter" science column for the Wall Street Journal. She has written numerous books about developmental psychology and researching the ways children learn. Her TED Talk: "What do babies think?" has been seen over 4.2 million times. During her conversation with our host, Pieter Abbeel, we discussed the similarities and differences between the way robots and human children learn. We also covered some the methods for testing what a child and a robot actually knows...2021-06-091h 34
The Robot Brains PodcastMike Schuster on whether AI can help hedge fund investors to beat the market?Episode ten of The Robot Brains Podcast investigates how hedge funds are using AI to find competitive advantages for their investments. Joining us to explain how AI is starting to be used for pure profit is Mike Schuster Managing Director and Head of AI Core Team at the New York-based Financial Sciences firm: Two Sigma. With decades of experience working in AI (including Google where he pioneered the ML technology that became Google Translation), when Mike first joined Two Sigma he was described as potentially being the “hedge fund’s last human employee”. In his chat with our host Pieter...2021-06-021h 23
The Robot Brains PodcastSimon Knowles on pushing AI computing to the limit by rethinking chipsIn the latest episode of The Robot Brains Podcast, we meet Graphcore's CTO, EVP of engineering and co-founder, Simon Knowles. Simon has had a long and illustrious career creating computer processors that have been used all over the world and in practically every industry. At Graphcore, he and his team have created the IPU, the world's first computer chip specifically designed to handle AI compute. In his chat with our host Pieter Abbeel, Simon discusses the history of AI compute, offers business advice from his experience as a tech startup founder and why we, if we want AI to change...2021-05-2654 min
The Robot Brains PodcastPeter Chen on building brains for robots in the real worldIn episode seven of The Robot Brains Podcast, our guest is Covariant CEO and co-founder Peter Chen. Peter is one of Pieter Abbeel's closest collaborators for the past five years, with Peter having studied for his PhD in Pieter's lab in Berkley before then working together at OpenAI. Now they are co-founders of Covariant, which they started back in 2017 with Peter as the CEO. On this episode we explore the future of AI-powered robotics, looking at what happens when you teach industrial robots to "think" and "learn" from their environment. Host: Pieter Abbeel | Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias Jones...2021-05-191h 05
The Robot Brains PodcastMarc Segura talks about the millions of robots already changing industries around the worldIn episode seven of The Robot Brains Podcast, our guest is ABB's Marc Segura. Marc is the Managing Director of consumer segments and service robotics at ABB. Founded in 1988, ABB is one of the largest producers and installers of robots around the world and Marc has been leading the charge on many of the company's efforts for 20+ years. He has seen the introduction of game-changing robots in practically every major industry, from car manufacturing in Germany to restaurants in China. On this week's show, he and Pieter Abbeel discuss the history of robotic automation and how AI is starting to r...2021-05-121h 04
The Robot Brains PodcastKeenan Wyrobek discusses how Zipline's AI-drones are reshaping Africa In episode six of The Robot Brains Podcast, Pieter is joined by Keenan Wyrobek, co-founder and head of product and engineering at Zipline. Founded in 2014, Zipline is an on-demand drone delivery service using cutting-edge drone engineering and AI to deliver urgent medical products. In our chat Keenan talks about his youth tearing down his school's 3D printers, how U2's Bono joined his company's board of directors and working with NASA to help his drones fly through extreme weather. Host: Pieter Abbeel Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias Jones Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji. Hosted on Acast. See...2021-04-2859 min
The Robot Brains PodcastAndrea Thomaz on how Moxi the robot helped hospital nurses through CovidIn episode five of The Robot Brains Podcast we are exploring AI robotics in healthcare. We chat with Andrea Thomaz, the co-founder and CEO of Diligent Robotics and Professor at UT Austin. In our interview, Andrea talks about her hospital helper AI-robot: Moxi, which is already being used to help frontline medical clinicians and care workers with their complex daily routines. Host: Pieter Abbeel Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias Jones Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-04-211h 00
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)Reinforcement Learning for Industrial AI with Pieter AbbeelToday we’re joined by Pieter Abbeel, a Professor at UC Berkeley, co-Director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab (BAIR), as well as Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Covariant. In our conversation with Pieter, we cover a ton of ground, starting with the specific goals and tasks of his work at Covariant, the shift in needs for industrial AI application and robots, if his experience solving real-world problems has changed his opinion on end to end deep learning, and the scope for the three problem domains of the models he’s building. We also explore his...2021-04-1958 min
The Robot Brains PodcastCade Metz talks about how AI took over the worldIn episode four of The Robot Brains Podcast we meet Cade Metz, technology correspondent for the New York Times and the author Genius Makers: The Mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook and the world. In our interview, Cade and Pieter discusses the history of AI from the perspective of the brilliant academic and business minds who helped to invent it. Host: Pieter Abbeel Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias Jones Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-04-141h 39
The Robot Brains PodcastYann LeCun explains why Facebook would crumble without AIOn episode three of The Robot Brains Podcast we have deep learning pioneer: Yann LeCun. Yann is a winner of the Turing Award (often called the Nobel Prize of Computer Science) who in 2013 was handpicked by Mark Zuckerberg to bring AI to Facebook. Yann also offers his predictions for the future of artificial general intelligence, talks about his life straddling the worlds of academia and business and explains why he likes to picture AI as a chocolate layer cake with a cherry on top. Host: Pieter Abbeel Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias Jones Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerj2021-04-071h 25
The Robot Brains PodcastOlga Russakovsky explains AI data's diversity problemThis week's guest is Princeton professor and co-founder of AI4All, Olga Russakovsky. Olga's research has focused on the societal biases in the data used to train machine learning AI. In our second episode, she talks about why we need more diversity in AI, problematic junk in, junk out data sets and what it was like being the only female researcher in early AI labs. Host: Pieter Abbeel Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias Jones Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-03-3047 min
The Robot Brains PodcastAndrej Karpathy on the visionary AI in Tesla's autonomous driving On the first ever episode of The Robot Brains podcast, our host Pieter Abbeel sits down with Andrej Karpathy, director of AI at Tesla. Andrej is a world-leading expert when it comes to machine learning and training neural nets. In this episode he talks about what it's like working with Elon Musk, training driverless cars with machine learning and the time he had to sleep on a yoga mat at Tesla HQ... Host: Pieter Abbeel. Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias Jones. Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-03-221h 06
The Robot Brains PodcastSeason One: TrailerIn each episode of The Robot Brains podcast (coming soon), renowned artificial intelligence researcher, professor and entrepreneur Pieter Abbeel meets the brilliant minds attempting to build robots with brains. Pieter is joined by leading experts in AI Robotics from all over the world as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines and rational robots.Hosted by Pieter Abbeel Executive Producers Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias JonesSound editing by Kieron Matthew Banerji Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...2021-03-1902 min
Unleashing the Future of Work (UTFOW)Guide Live B2B Jam Session_ Pieter AbbeelGuide Live B2B Jam Session_ Pieter Abbeel See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2021-02-1134 min
Er mag al eens#97 Pieter Abbeel over impact creëren op de mensheid, samenwerken met Elon Musk en robotica van de toekomstPieter Abbeel is een robotica onderzoeker, hoogleraar aan de universiteit van Berkeley en voormalig adviseur van niemand minder dan Elon Musk. In een nieuwe Techmag aflevering vertelt de Vlaming over zijn parcours, wat hij heeft geleerd door zo nauw met Musk samen te werken, en hoe de toekomst van robotica misschien niet diegene is die we verwachten!2020-10-0800 min
Intel on AISmart Robots: From the Lab to the World with Pieter Abbeel – Intel on AI Season 2, Episode 2In this Intel on AI podcast guest Pieter Abbeel, one of the world’s leading AI roboticists, joins host Abigail Hing Wen to talk about bringing AI robots into the world. Professor Pieter Abbeel is Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and co-director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab. Abbeel’s research strives to build ever more intelligent systems, pushing the frontiers of deep reinforcement learning, deep imitation learning, deep unsupervised learning, transfer learning, meta-learning, and learning to learn. His lab also investigates how AI could advance other science and engineering disciplines. Pieter and A...2020-09-3037 min
TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning PodcastAravind SrinivasAravind Srinivas is a 3rd year PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Prof. Abbeel. He co-created and co-taught a grad course on Deep Unsupervised Learning at Berkeley. Featured References Data-Efficient Image Recognition with Contrastive Predictive Coding Olivier J. Hénaff, Aravind Srinivas, Jeffrey De Fauw, Ali Razavi, Carl Doersch, S. M. Ali Eslami, Aaron van den Oord Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for Reinforcement Learning Aravind Srinivas, Michael Laskin, Pieter Abbeel Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data Michael Laskin, Kimin Lee, Adam Stooke, Lerrel Pinto, Pieter Abbeel, Aravind Srinivas ...2020-09-211h 25
College Matters. Alma Matters.Sibi Venkatesan on UC Berkeley. The Daily Grind, Great People and Donut runs.Episode summary introduction: Sibi Venkatesan knew he wanted to study Computer Science. He had always enjoyed it and was good at it. When time came to go to College, Sibi moved from Bangalore, India to Berkeley, California to pursue the prestigious Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program.
Sibi gives us a ringside view into his experiences at University of California Berkeley.
In particular, we discuss the following with him:
Why he chose Berkeley
Being an International Student at Berkeley
His advice for Students applying to Berkeley
Topics discussed in this...2020-08-2053 min
Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AIJosh Tobin — Productionizing ML ModelsJosh Tobin is a researcher working at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. His research focuses on applying deep reinforcement learning, generative models, and synthetic data to problems in robotic perception and control.
Additionally, he co-organizes a machine learning training program for engineers to learn about production-ready deep learning called Full Stack Deep Learning. https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/
Josh did his PhD in Computer Science at UC Berkeley advised by Pieter Abbeel and was a research scientist at OpenAI for 3 years during his PhD.
Finally, Josh created this amazing field guide on troubleshooting deep neural networks:
http://josh-tobin.com/assets...2020-07-0848 min
Cannabis EconomyEp. 541: Pieter Abbeel2020-05-2131 min
TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning PodcastDanijar HafnerDanijar Hafner is a PhD student at the University of Toronto, and a student researcher at Google Research, Brain Team and the Vector Institute. He holds a Masters of Research from University College London. Featured References A deep learning framework for neuroscience Blake A. Richards, Timothy P. Lillicrap , Philippe Beaudoin, Yoshua Bengio, Rafal Bogacz, Amelia Christensen, Claudia Clopath, Rui Ponte Costa, Archy de Berker, Surya Ganguli, Colleen J. Gillon , Danijar Hafner, Adam Kepecs, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Peter Latham , Grace W. Lindsay, Kenneth D. Miller , Richard Naud , Christopher C. Pack, Panayiota Poirazi , Pieter Roelfsema , João Sacramento, Andr...2020-05-142h 00
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for Reinforcement LearningAccording to Yann Le Cun, the next big thing in machine learning is unsupervised learning. Self-supervision has changed the entire game in the last few years in deep learning, first transforming the language world with word2vec and BERT -- but now it's turning computer vision upside down.
This week Yannic, Connor and I spoke with one of the authors, Aravind Srinivas who recently co-led the hot-off-the-press CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for Reinforcement Learning alongside Michael (Misha) Laskin. CURL has had an incredible reception in the ML community in the last month or so. R...2020-05-021h 14
TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning PodcastScott FujimotoScott Fujimoto is a PhD student at McGill University and Mila. He is the author of TD3 as well as some of the recent developments in batch deep reinforcement learning. Featured References Addressing Function Approximation Error in Actor-Critic Methods Scott Fujimoto, Herke van Hoof, David Meger Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning without Exploration Scott Fujimoto, David Meger, Doina Precup Benchmarking Batch Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Scott Fujimoto, Edoardo Conti, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Joelle Pineau Additional References Striving for Simplicity in Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning Rishabh...2019-11-1948 min
TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning PodcastAntonin Raffin and Ashley HillAntonin Raffin is a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Munich, working in the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics. His research is on using machine learning for controlling real robots (because simulation is not enough), with a particular interest for reinforcement learning. Ashley Hill is doing his thesis on improving control algorithms using machine learning for real time gain tuning. He works mainly with neuroevolution, genetic algorithms, and of course reinforcement learning, applied to mobile robots. He holds a masters degree in Machine learning, and a bachelors in Computer science from the Uni...2019-09-0534 min
Voices in AIEpisode 93: A Conversation with Pieter Abbeel
In this episode Byron speaks with Berkeley Robotic Learning Lab Director Pieter Abbeel about the nature of AI, the problems with creating intelligence and the forward trajectory of AI research.
Episode 93: A Conversation with Pieter Abbeel2019-08-0828 min
Eye On A.I.Episode 13 - Pieter AbbeelThinking robots: that’s how much of the world envisions artificial intelligence and if there is one person on the planet who understands the limitations and promise of intelligence in robots, it's Pieter Abbeel, one of the world’s foremost experts on robotic learning systems. In this episode, Pieter talks about robot memories and the prospect of robots with personalities eventually assisting in the home. Listen and learn about your future.2019-04-1731 min
NVIDIA AI PodcastUC Berkeley’s Pieter Abbeel on How Deep Learning Will Help Robots Learn - Ep. 82Robots can do amazing things. Compare even the most advanced robots to a three-year old, however, and they can come up short. UC Berkeley Professor Pieter Abbeel has pioneered the idea that deep learning could be the key to bridging that gap: creating robots that can learn how move through the world more fluidly and naturally. We caught up with Abbeel, who is director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and cofounder of Covariant AI, a Bay Area company developing AI software that makes it easy to teach robots new and complex skills, at GTC 2019.2019-04-1123 min
Lex Fridman PodcastPieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement LearningPieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and is one of the top researchers in the world working on how to make robots understand and interact with the world around them, especially through imitation and deep reinforcement learning. Video version is available on YouTube. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.
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Siraj RavalPieter Abbeel - Really Quick Questions with a Berkeley ProfessorDr Pieter Abbeel got his PhD at Stanford University under the mentorship of Andrew Ng and went on to become a professor at UC Berkeley. He's worked at OpenAI, Willow Garage and now Embodied Intelligence.Drawing on recent advances in Deep Imitation Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning, Embodied Intelligence is developing AI software that makes it easy to teach robots new, complex skills. I caught him after he gave a lecture at Nvidia's GTC Conference in San Jose and asked him some really quick questions about his life and his thought on Machine Learning. Enjoy!
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The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)Deep Robotic Learning with Sergey Levine - TWiML Talk #37This week we continue our Industrial AI series with Sergey Levine, an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley whose research focus is Deep Robotic Learning. Sergey is part of the same research team as a couple of our previous guests in this series, Chelsea Finn and Pieter Abbeel, and if the response we’ve seen to those shows is any indication, you’re going to love this episode! Sergey’s research interests, and our discussion, focus in on include how robotic learning techniques can be used to allow machines to acquire autonomously acquire complex behavioral skills. We really dig into some of the...2017-07-2446 min