In our second episode of AI in Motion, our host, Waymo AI researcher Vincent Vanhoucke, talks with a robotics startup founder Sergey Levine, who left a career in academic research to build better robots for the home and workplace.
Each episode, Vincent invites a new AI expert to join him for coffee and an insightful backseat conversation in between. These deep-dive, long-form episodes will explore hot topics in the AI world, like safety, foundation models, VLAs and generalization.
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Timestamps:
01:34 – Scaling & Robotics
04:14 – Academia to Entrepreneurship
07:22 – Generalization
09:02 – Compositionality
10:27 – Specialization vs. Multitask
14:00 – Real World vs. Sim
16:09 – Reinforcement & Imitation Learning Balance
19:08 – Visual Language Action Models
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