Episode 21: Chelsea Finn, Stanford, on the biggest bottlenecks in

Episode 21: Chelsea Finn, Stanford, on the biggest bottlenecks in robotics and reinforcement learning

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Chelsea Finn is an Assistant Professor at Stanford and part of the Google Brain team. She's interested in the capability of robots and other agents to develop broadly intelligent behavior through learning and interaction at scale. In this episode, we chat about some of the biggest bottlenecks in RL and robotics—including distribution shifts, Sim2Real, and sample efficiency—as well as what makes a great researcher, why she aspires to build a robot that can make cereal, and much more.

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