I’ve spent the past few months diving into recent publications from conferences like CoRL, ICRA, IROS, RAUL, CVPR, and some preprints of note. It seems like we’re getting pretty close to robotic assistants that can perform a limited range of tasks and be deployed in people’s homes. Where do we think we are with this tech? What do you think is the biggest bottleneck we need to overcome? Do you think the “internet scale” behavioural cloning techniques from Google will lead the way? Or something more RL-VL oriented?
I’m at the start of an AI PhD with a focus on robotics so I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on this!
There’s also the whole “if your robot is smart enough to run your house for you, with all of the decision making ability and contextual analysis that would entail, it’s probably smart enough that owning it should probably be considered slavery” part
Maybe, though we would have no problem if a dog was able to do that? Anyway, it could be a set of specialized skills without general skills There could be appearance of intelligence without actual general intelligence