Abstract: Everyone says AI needs more: more parameters, more data, more GPUs, more money. I'm here to argue the opposite. This talk begins with a cautionary tale from my student days—watching my research-professor uncle doubled over laughing in his basement lab because he and his grad student had just vaporized a large percent of their…

Abstract: While many robots are currently deployable in factories, warehouses and homes, their autonomous deployment requires either the deployment environments to be highly controlled, or the deployment to only entail executing one single preprogrammed task. These deployable robots do not learn to address changes and to improve performance. For uncontrolled environments and for novel tasks,…