Real World Data
topic on 2 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes
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Levine: Acrobatic Humanoid Demos Rely on Simulation, Not Real-World Data
“If you've seen videos of humanoids doing all these acrobatics, right? There's a particular pipeline that makes that work, which is very heavily reliant on simulation, and actually very light on real world data, often almost, often actually zero real world data…”
Levine: Robotic manipulation depends on real-world data over simulation
“There are the approaches that work well for robotic manipulation that often are the opposite. They often use very little simulated data, often use large amounts of real world data, and very large foundation models.”
EdTech vendors' remarkable student results never appear in real-world educational data
“And you talk to any of these providers of an ed tech platform, and they have all this data they're going to show you about the remarkable results that they get from their students. And then you step back and you just never see it in the actual data, you know, …”
Bourgeau: Early DeepMind research defaulted to synthetic data over real-world data
“And at the time we had to add this from real world data to the name of the project, because people would assume otherwise it would be synthetic environments or synthetic data. And that definitely has shifted completely since then.”