Is embodied AI progressing slower or faster than language models, and how would we measure it?
Summary
The article questions whether embodied AI is advancing faster or slower than language models, noting that robots are judged by demos rather than benchmarks, and asks what fair metrics could compare physical AI progress with text and reasoning progress.
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