S3 E20 Jitendra Malik on Building AI from the ground up: Sensorimotor learning before language

[@KatScott-m6g]

I love Prof. Malik so much. He is a friggin legend.

[@AECTechJourneys]

Incredible interview.

[@BillBakerB]

Thank you especially for your commentary about moving on to new approaches and tools even if you invested a big chunk of your life in the old ones. Anyone with a long career in technology should be encouraged by that. Hopefully some of the lessons learned from old ways will translate though!

[@epicquad101]

Has the podcast stopped?

[@I-0-0-I]

This concept really resonates with me. I just came across this new study which aligns with the non-language-first concept. Look up: "Toddlers learn to reason logically before they learn to speak, according to a study by UPF"

[@BillBakerB]

Regarding grounding and morality: Could a grounded experience be necessary for an intrinsic understanding of morality? Or is the "suffering" of negative reward in RLHF sufficient? As I understand it, the foundation of morality is desiring the welfare of others, which requires an understanding of welfare yourself. Edit: I understand that we're very far from teaching AI & robots morality directly ... but small children often seem pretty far from it as well, although I think we have some supportive instincts and built-in brain structures.

[@Doug97803]

Simulators are like sending children to school. You give the model a head start using simplified problems before they have to start learning from the 'real world'.

[@lucamatteobarbieri2493]

Fine motor control is acquired later in children, true, but you have to consider that the nerves that allow it mature later.

[@huuud]

🙏

[@faxian12]

Interesting to hear of the debate when AlexNet came out. Wonder what side Yann was on that debate….

[@AquaticBird-gc6hc]

Happy parenting, hypocrite Dmitry.