Hwang: Virtual 3D environments train robots without expensive physical setups
Tim Hwang · At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator · Jun 16, 2017 · at 12:06
Tim Hwang, Google's Global Public Policy Lead on AI, discusses using simulation platforms like OpenAI Universe and DeepMind Lab for robotics training.
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“There's also one really cool interface between VR and AI that's happening right now, where the whole idea is, like there's a project called Universe from OpenAI, and another project called DeepMindLab, which basically, like, imagine you need to teach a robot to get through a maze. Well, you could have it physically run through that maze millions of times, or you could just have a virtual, three-D environment that you cause a computer to run through, and it learns how to do that in virtual space, and then basically you put it into in practice in, in a real robot. And so that's a really another exciting way. We don't necessarily need like an expensive physical setup to collect the data that you need, you know, to accomplish tasks in the real world.”
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