Published On Jul 14, 2020
Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that combine perception and control, scalable algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning, and deep RL algorithms.
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:05 - State-of-the-art robots vs humans
16:13 - Robotics may help us understand intelligence
22:49 - End-to-end learning in robotics
27:01 - Canonical problem in robotics
31:44 - Commonsense reasoning in robotics
34:41 - Can we solve robotics through learning?
44:55 - What is reinforcement learning?
1:06:36 - Tesla Autopilot
1:08:15 - Simulation in reinforcement learning
1:13:46 - Can we learn gravity from data?
1:16:03 - Self-play
1:17:39 - Reward functions
1:27:01 - Bitter lesson by Rich Sutton
1:32:13 - Advice for students interesting in AI
1:33:55 - Meaning of life
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