@ryanlpeterman: Sergey Levine's (@svlevine) top AI robotics paper recommendation for someone who wants to get into the field: "The orig…

Sergey Levine's (@svlevine) top AI robotics paper recommendation for someone who wants to get into the field: "The original ACT paper or the ALOHA paper. The idea was that hey, if you set up the right kind of low cost robot setup without really any particularly fancy tricks, you could easily collect teleoperation data of extremely dexterous tasks that people had previously thought would require like very sophisticated hardware and all sorts of like really expensive stuff and then set up like a fairly straightforward transformer based model and it could actually do a lot of those tasks. He showed like things like replacing batteries in a remote control. He even got a little like a mannequin foot and he showed that he could put a shoe on it like for like an assistive task. But like what people found I think so interesting about that paper is just how far you could get with like relatively simple building blocks. And I think that it's worth for somebody who wants to get into the field to go through that paper and really understand what's going on there."