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Ken Goldberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
660 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

But of course, it also has this problem that it gets stuck. all the time and tangled up in stuff. And so it's not ideal and it can't go upstairs. Also, a lot of people bought them as a novelty. There's a lot of them sitting in the closet somewhere.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

But of course, it also has this problem that it gets stuck. all the time and tangled up in stuff. And so it's not ideal and it can't go upstairs. Also, a lot of people bought them as a novelty. There's a lot of them sitting in the closet somewhere.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

But of course, it also has this problem that it gets stuck. all the time and tangled up in stuff. And so it's not ideal and it can't go upstairs. Also, a lot of people bought them as a novelty. There's a lot of them sitting in the closet somewhere.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

No, I need like six hours to basically figure it out. And it's sitting in the box.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

No, I need like six hours to basically figure it out. And it's sitting in the box.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

No, I need like six hours to basically figure it out. And it's sitting in the box.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Right. So everybody's impressed. The analogy, if you say, okay, you can beat the best person in the world at chess, then that means you have a very powerful machine, artificial intelligence. Now it can beat the best person at Go. And nobody can play Go or chess that well. So you think this is smarter than everybody.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Right. So everybody's impressed. The analogy, if you say, okay, you can beat the best person in the world at chess, then that means you have a very powerful machine, artificial intelligence. Now it can beat the best person at Go. And nobody can play Go or chess that well. So you think this is smarter than everybody.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Right. So everybody's impressed. The analogy, if you say, okay, you can beat the best person in the world at chess, then that means you have a very powerful machine, artificial intelligence. Now it can beat the best person at Go. And nobody can play Go or chess that well. So you think this is smarter than everybody.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

That's the way people reason. But then it can't drive a car. It's a whole bunch of things it can't do. And anything physical is just picking up or opening this can that I just did that is impossible for robots.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

That's the way people reason. But then it can't drive a car. It's a whole bunch of things it can't do. And anything physical is just picking up or opening this can that I just did that is impossible for robots.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

That's the way people reason. But then it can't drive a car. It's a whole bunch of things it can't do. And anything physical is just picking up or opening this can that I just did that is impossible for robots.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Splatters, broken glass. Yeah. But I agree, taking things in and out of the dishwasher would be great. Just unloading and loading the dishwasher, right? And some would say that their dishwasher is a robot. It is, it's very successful. See, there's this idea that if you can use humans and robot together, that's very powerful. So that's what I call complementarity.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Splatters, broken glass. Yeah. But I agree, taking things in and out of the dishwasher would be great. Just unloading and loading the dishwasher, right? And some would say that their dishwasher is a robot. It is, it's very successful. See, there's this idea that if you can use humans and robot together, that's very powerful. So that's what I call complementarity.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Splatters, broken glass. Yeah. But I agree, taking things in and out of the dishwasher would be great. Just unloading and loading the dishwasher, right? And some would say that their dishwasher is a robot. It is, it's very successful. See, there's this idea that if you can use humans and robot together, that's very powerful. So that's what I call complementarity.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

When if you figure out that you have a machine, you can use it, but you have the human do the parts that we're good at and then let it do the parts it's good at. Together, you have a great system. And a dishwasher is a beautiful example. And the washing machine, they do all this, but we have to load it and unload it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

When if you figure out that you have a machine, you can use it, but you have the human do the parts that we're good at and then let it do the parts it's good at. Together, you have a great system. And a dishwasher is a beautiful example. And the washing machine, they do all this, but we have to load it and unload it.