Links for 2023-07-08
Statler: STATe-maintaining Language models for Embodied Reasoning https://statler-lm.github.io/
LLMs can reliably identify and explain robot failures given a textual summary of robot past experiences generated from raw sensory inputs. https://roboreflect.github.io/
Introducing VoxPoser: use LLM+VLM to label affordances and constraints directly in 3D perceptual space for zero-shot robot manipulation in the real world! https://voxposer.github.io/
ChatGPT for Robotics: Design Principles and Model Abilities https://arxiv.org/abs//2306.17582
Supersize Simulation Task Generation in Robotics with LLM: We explore an LLM pipeline to generate code for simulation tasks. https://github.com/liruiw/GenSim/blob/main/BLOG.md
Scaling Transformers to 1,000,000,000 Tokens? https://arxiv.org/abs//2307.02486
“Introducing LongLLaMA 🦙, an unlimited-context version of OpenLLaMA fine-tuned at 8k & capable of extrapolating to 256k tokens!” https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03170
Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/self-driving-cars-are-surveillance-cameras-on-wheels.html
Elephants have 257 billion neurons: three times more than human brains. But 97.5% of those are found in the cerebellum, managing their large body. In the cerebral cortex, elephants only have 5.6 billion neurons dedicated to thinking: a third of humans' https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24971054/
White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/01/white-house-cautiously-opens-door-to-study-blocking-suns-rays-to-slow-global-warming-ee-00104513