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Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping by Letting Robots Learn for Themselves

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Re: Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping by Letting Robots Learn for Themselves

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I always thought this was the only way to build a true AI -- build a 'virtual baby' that has to go through much the same experiences as a human baby. I'm sure this idea has been explored somewhere already - anybody have any pointers?

> anybody have any pointers?

BabyX First Words https://vimeo.com/103501130

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures https://vimeo.com/79098420

Re: Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping by Letting Robots Learn for Themselves

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I always thought this was the only way to build a true AI -- build a 'virtual baby' that has to go through much the same experiences as a human baby. I'm sure this idea has been explored somewhere already - anybody have any pointers?

I've come across some curiosity driven skill acquisition research for robots that is similar to this. Below is a link to one of the articles and more related articles can be found from this author.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

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I always thought this was the only way to build a true AI -- build a 'virtual baby' that has to go through much the same experiences as a human baby. I'm sure this idea has been explored somewhere already - anybody have any pointers?

Re: Chapie the movie

Re: Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping by Letting Robots Learn for Themselves

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I always thought this was the only way to build a true AI -- build a 'virtual baby' that has to go through much the same experiences as a human baby. I'm sure this idea has been explored somewhere already - anybody have any pointers?

If that were to happen, I would suggest that an artificial "soul" could or would be created. Once you have that on your hands, things being to get interesting. Ethics, religion law, and so on will have one hell of a job on their hands. Especially when you consider that there would be immediate and obvious military applications.

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Are physics engines not yet accurate enough to enable "virtual" pre-training / full training of the networks, lighting conditions, etc? If they are, exclusively using physical robots seems somewhat inefficient.

Gazebo with Mike Sherman's physics engine might be good enough. DARPA paid to get a decent physics engine into Gazebo; the ones from games were never quite right.

Re: Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping by Letting Robots Learn for Themselves

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post #4

I always thought this was the only way to build a true AI -- build a 'virtual baby' that has to go through much the same experiences as a human baby. I'm sure this idea has been explored somewhere already - anybody have any pointers?

I've come across some curiosity driven skill acquisition research for robots that is similar to this. Below is a link to one of the articles and more related articles can be found from this author. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

So now we just need a robot that can experience a millenia of evolution in order to attain "curiosity" I'd say we're 15-30 years away...
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