Why it's harder for AI to open doors than play chess | Pulkit Agrawal | TEDxMIT

[@JanSzedlak]

When terminator machines rise, just close the door. Problem solved.

[@sr2291]

Lol

[@ifur]

Mr. Agrawal really wants terminators to be able to open the doors

[@MrAlpha-cc1ew]

😂😂😂😂

[@troyotapreuis6020]

Just add water see how they go 😂

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

they will probably just pull down the entire building instead

[@raaajit1]

Really interesting during this AI hyped period .......

[@drumbum3.142]

Sometimes a door, is a jar... . Chess; is just Chess.

[@__-be1gk]

Something to think about with the little robot walking dogs, it's an entire machine and ai dedicated solely just to walking, it can't do anything else. It needs its entire being dedicated solely to locomotion just to get around, and it's basically the only one that's actually able to do it. Just moving, nothing else.

[@kbk9535]

Well, yes, but the beauty of robotics and science in general is the ability to combine things. So once they get it walking, running and jumping around flawlessly, they can just add some more processing power and add the disembodied part of AI too. At that point you can have a walking dog which can do your homework :)

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

Isn't it ironic that "physical intelligence," which was once regarded as low-paid menial work for less educated individuals, will maybe become arguably more crucial than the academic abilities of the "mentally intelligent," who were once highly respected and well-paid? (Thanks to AI)

[@j.c.s5630]

its already is more crucial but since people bring you food from automated mega farms youve got nothing else to do but sit around and cook up law job for yourself.

[@volodyakan5111]

Тема розкрита і стала зрозумілішою. Можливо, прогрес прискориться після зміни моделі обробки інформації в ШІ. Треба щось змінити принципово. Перші люди, що мріяли літати, будували крила як у птахів. Сучасні літаки з реактивними двигунами і гелікоптери зовсім не схожі на птахів. Але вони літають ефективно. Ми вже винайшли нейромережі. Думаю, ми недалеко від нових відкриттів, що в сукупності створять прорив конкретно в області ШІ з фізичною компонентою в реальному житті. Роботи майбутнього будуть відчиняти різноманітні замки і двері швидше за людей

[@frictionless]

Great talk!

[@justinweatherford8129]

I thought that he was going to say, “When the human told the robot ‘make me dinner’ the robot killed, butchered, and cooked the human.

[@funnytv-1631]

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” - Maya Angelou. You might have a tiny, wobbly step to celebrate. If so, bravo! You might have already integrated a change. If so, bravo! Even when you’ve ignored things for a little while, notice that right now, you are here. Give yourself credit. Delight in the beauty of the butterfly and don’t forget to stop to appreciate the changes it has gone through to get there.

[@jeue4098]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

[@auntyrukyurhoboteacher]

The only thing missing from the comment is my name.

[@asheeshkumar3824]

Thanks Pulkit for shareing!

[@j.c.s5630]

newb here. isnt a door part of a set of standardized physical interfaces? why dont roboticists just take the easy way out and match the door knob to a database of standard interfaces then just use the proper end effector for the job? why are we working so hard to have A.I. "figure it out". Isnt that what the robot does when it plays chess? they build an end effector that can grasp the peice and they use basic inverse kinematics to pick and place the object to the different location? The reasoning of why to move the peice is a different story. when i play chess i just try a bunch of outcomes in my head for the horse and then try outcomes of those outcomes. its hard for me because ive got other things on my mind but robot is easy its software module running just does that in isolation. I dont get why its so hard to open a door. Its like the A.I. people want the robot to figure it all out from scratch instead of kinda sorta hardcoding things as i suggested. plenty of robots do hard things thats how we have all these computers and phones and earphones and microcomponents. robots build those. thats harder than opening a door.

[@mechez659]

Because opening a door knob is arguably one of the simplest manipulator tasks you can give a mobile robot. You have to walk before you can run, and you have to be able to grip a door knob before you can flip an egg with a frying pan, or any number of non-arbitrary examples. Also, in the chess example, the chess piece manipulation is more for "showmanship" rather than practicality.

[@thomasjoseph5876]

That's why robots will just bust thru or blast away a door and not worry about opening it to get at the last stragglers of humanity left on Earth. Oh, and the first people to die will be the smartest people on the planet. They possess the most danger to an AI because they can defeat the AI on that intellectual level.

[@akedi2734]

This was a funny comment ty

[@sreekanthasharmavedantham305]

Proud of you an IITian from India

[@MrTooEarnestOnline]

This is a very good presentation.

[@jayantochoudhury5631]

Fascinating review of the evolution of human intelligence and how AI has developed in the past 35 years. Moravec's Paradox is an interesting concept and will apply to AI applications like substituting robots for human soldiers on the battlefield. Well done, Mr Agarwal.

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

A healthy mind lives in a healthy body. They need a body, not just a simulation of a body

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

A non woke, interesting and high quality content Ted Talk? yeeee! 🤗🤗

[@domsau2]

Please, next times: time from left to right.

[@_Everyone__]

First we need an AI to remove accent from speech to make it more comprehensible... and teach people to speak with brevity, not repeating themself all the time.... all the time

[@Landfakirbaba]

Very nice sharing❤❤❤

[@marcin8680]

I would argue if we even have the cherry, ai can play chess but it has zero understanding of what chess is.

[@akashverma5756]

We can build conscious mind but not subconscious mind.

[@debabratadas5460]

Make AI that can Ask question why it can't solve some physical intelligence

[@ifur]

Nice 👍 we should mimic biology more

[@mechez659]

The problem is that mimicing biology tends to significantly increase the amount of compute required (as well as the mechanical design complexity). For example, the human hand is most adequately modeled using a soft end effector with millions of touch sensors spread across the mechanism as well as many independent joints to model each degree of freedom. Good luck solving any nontrivial motion planning problem under this design, and that assumes none of these joint motors have failed (which they almost certainly will when the hand comes into contact with nontrivial forces, and it would only take one failure to severely limit the range of motion of the hand).

[@AbCd-vv1fe]

Ai will help in space exploaration

[@srikanthgladiator]

Epic !! Mind - blown 🤯

[@djefsaneremixtv2110]

Worldpeaceplease 🙏🕊️✌️

[@fightinggator4398]

My Heavenly Father made me, I just that's why I can walk and open doors so good!

[@sophtware_slump]

Cos they don't have a damn arm lol

[@anojj1897]

Pathetic

[@feraskiki655]

I don't see the point of this. OK, difficulty for humans and machines are not the same. SO WHAT?! They improve faster than anything, so it does not matter.

[@mg7652]

Evolution is theory. Is funny how folks are so casual with something that's debatable😅.

[@andrewsutterfield5387]

if only you would lose that accent within 3.7 billion years

[@Landfakirbaba]

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