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currentscurrents t1_jbs5lnn wrote

Robot control is fundamentally a reinforcement learning problem, and that subfield hasn't had the same breakthroughs as self-supervised learning.

This may be changing though - the current state-of-the-art can use self-supervised learning to build a world model, and then run RL inside that world model instead of on the raw input data.

They claim 100x better sample efficiency than traditional model-free RL. Definitely an area of research to watch.

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rainbow3 t1_jbsugc8 wrote

Lawn robots work inside a border wire. They change direction randomly at the border. No machine learning but in practice it works really well. You can over think things.

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