#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast

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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:
    00:00 - Introduction
    03:05 - 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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