{"id":8273,"date":"2024-06-16T22:32:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2024-06-16T22:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:32:58","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-day-one-six-eight-what-isnt-embodied-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/16\/twenty-twenty-four-day-one-six-eight-what-isnt-embodied-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four day one six eight]: what ISN’T embodied AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Embodied AI Workshop<\/a> is coming up this Tuesday, starting at 8:50am, and I am busy procrastinating on my presentation(s) by trying to finish all the OTHER things which need to be done prior to the workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the questions my talk raises is what ISN’T embodied AI. And the simplest way I can describe it is that if you don’t have to interact with an environment, it isn’t embodied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figuring out that the golden object on the left and the void on the right is a tremendously complex problem, solved by techniques like CNNs and their variants Inception and ResNet<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s a static problem. Recognizing things in the image doesn’t change things in the image. But in the real world, you cannot observe things without affecting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a fundamental principle that goes all the way down to quantum mechanics. Functionally, we can ignore it for certain problems, but we can never make it go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, classical non-interactive learning is an abstraction. If you have a function which goes from image to cat, and the cat can’t whap you back for getting up in its bidnes, it isn’t embodied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: Gabby, God rest his fuzzy little soul, and Loki, his grumpier cousin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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