Jitendra Malik: Building AI from the ground-up, sensorimotor before language
The episode explores the importance of sensory motor competence in achieving human-like intelligence through robotics research. It discusses the role of language acquisition, skill acquisition in robotics, rapid motor adaptation, learning through neural networks, simulation and real-world training, computer vision in humanoid robots, benchmarking in computer vision, AI applications, personal journey and research focus, synergy between industry and academic research, and the future of AI with historical analogies.