Robin Rombach
person on 5 shows · 5 statements across 2 episodes · said 6 times in 5 episodes since 2024
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Rombach: Pre-training AI models on video gives implicit understanding of physics
“Pre-training on videos gives, like, implicit understanding of the physics of interactions with the real world, and then you can get stuff like action prediction, like robotics out of the same model.”
Robin Rombach: Most Valuable AI Video Uses Require Human-in-the-Loop
“But I think ultimately. Like the real interesting use cases, they come when you have like a human in the loop who iterates and uses it as a medium.”
Rombach: Same generative AI models making movies can power robot brains
“I think what really excites me is you can use the same kind of AI model to make a movie and deploy that as a brain on a robot.”
Rombach: Adapting visual AI for robotics requires mere hours of data
“In practice what you do is, You have like all this like visual understanding in the models. And then you need only a very little bit of like a few hours of fine tuning data to adjust the model on that specific task.”
Rombach: Video AI models scaled like LLMs will gain world understanding
“Having something like we are seeing in language modeling, but trained on pixels on videos will probably give like super interesting downstream behavior to not, not only like generating videos, but also understanding of the world.”