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Dhruv Batra on What AI Still Cannot Do in the Physical World
AI can speak fluently, reason through problems, and describe the world.
Getting it to do something in the world is a much harder problem.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Dhruv Batra, co-founder and chief scientist at Yutori, about the gap between language models that generate answers and intelligent systems that can take action.
Dhruv explains why many post-ChatGPT robot demos are still little more than a physical wrapper around a language model. A robot may be able to hold a convincing conversation, but that does not prove it can navigate, manipulate objects…
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