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Chelsea Finn

What Chelsea Finn thinks about LLMs

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Assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, and co-founder of the robot foundation-model company Physical Intelligence.

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  1. Our readingReinforcement learning cannot be scaled for robots the way it was for language models, because every attempt spends real robot hours instead of data-centre compute.

    roboticsreinforcement learning

    Their wordsNow maybe this isn't completely out of the question but this would be quite challenging uh to do and that's because the calculus is a little bit different. We're not just running compute to optimize for a use case. We're actually running the robot in the real world and using the hardware and attempting the task in the real world.

    ↗Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Roboticsyoutube.com 4th of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingA model you have to fine-tune for each thing you want it to do is not a general-purpose model.

    Their wordsBut if you have to fine-tune a model, you actually aren't getting a general purpose model um for the things that you want it to do because you have to fine-tune it for each individual thing.

    ↗Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Roboticsyoutube.com 9th of 22 in this recording

  5. Our readingMost future robotics training data will be robots' own autonomous attempts, the way most language-model data is now generated by the model itself.

    robotics

    Their wordsUh and just like how we see in language models how now a lot of time is spent actually generating data, generating synthetic data by actually running the model and having it think through things. I think a lot of the data in the future in robotics is going to be the robot attempting to do lots of tasks in lots of real world circumstances.

    ↗Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Roboticsyoutube.com 18th of 22 in this recording