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Seems to me Boston Dynamics was at the forefront of AI/robotics progress, too. Reality might be hard, but Boston Dynamics was definitely going somewhere.
by tachyonbeam 11y ago
Seems to me Boston Dynamics was at the forefront of AI/robotics progress, too. Reality might be hard, but Boston Dynamics was definitely going somewhere.
- argonaut 11y agoWas it really, though? What I've read seems to indicate a lot of the algorithms were focused more on the typical top-down planning/searching paradigm, rather than the approach that is in vogue in AI today, which is learning algorithms for robots to learn behaviors. I could easily see a scenario in which researchers at Google HQ tried to shift the research focus of Boston Dynamics and were told off by the researchers at Boston, though this is just wild speculation.
- tachyonbeam 11y agoIMO you need both traditional top/down searching and planning as well as deep neural networks. AlphaGo is a good example of that kind of mix. Furthermore, the mechanical engineering problems in robotics are important too. We currently have relatively bad robot platforms. Boston Dynamics has made important progress in this area as well.