Sergey Levine

So it's just, it's something that's taken a while for the community collectively to get their hands around.

Yeah, I don't think there's a profound reason why robotics is that different, but there are a few small differences that I think make things a little bit more manageable.

Especially if you have a robot that's doing something in cooperation with people, whether it's a person that's supervising it or directing it, there are very natural sources of supervision.

There's a big incentive for the person to provide the assistance that will make things succeed.

There are a lot of dynamics where you can make mistakes and recover from those mistakes and then reflect back on what happened and avoid that mistake in the future.

And I think that when you're doing physical things in the real world, that kind of stuff just happens more often than it does if you're like,

an AI assistant answering a question.

Like, if you answer a question and you just, like, answered it wrong, it's like, well, it's not like you can just, like, go back and, like, tweak a few things.

Like, the person you told the answer to might not even know that it's wrong.

Whereas if you're, like, folding the T-shirt and you messed up a little bit, like, yeah, it's pretty obvious.

Like, you can reflect on that, figure out what happened, and do it better next time.

Well, I think it's actually not that different than what we've seen with LLMs in some ways, that it's a matter of scope.

Like if you think about coding assistance, right?

Like initially, the best tools for coding, they could do like a little bit of completion.

Like you give them a function signature and they'll like try their best to type out like the whole function and they'll maybe like get half of it right.

And as that stuff progresses, then you're willing to give these things a lot more agency.

So that like the very best coding systems now, like if you're doing something relatively formulaic, maybe it can like put together most of a PR for you for something, you know, fairly accessible.

So I think it'll be the same thing.

That we'll see an increase in the scope that we're willing to give to the robots as they get better and better.

Where initially the scope might be like there is a particular thing you do like.