Brains
Teaching robots through trial and error, the simulator revolution, and the beginnings of robot “imagination.”
Chapter 5 of A Brief History of Embodied Intelligence
“There was maybe a dozen people in the world who cared about this stuff. We’d meet at conferences and wonder if anyone would ever take us seriously.” — Richard Sutton
The robot hand had been failing for three days straight.
It was October 2019, and in a corner of OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters, a f…
