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Re:AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds wit... by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday April 07, 2025 @08:14PM (#43617200)
Oh I have. For example I remember this project:

>> Quantitatively, the QT-Opt approach succeeded in 96% of the grasp attempts across 700 trial grasps on previously unseen objects. Compared to our previous supervised-learning based grasping approach, which had a 78% success rate, our method reduced the error rate by more than a factor of five.

https://research.google/blog/scalable-deep-reinforcement-lea...

That was in 2018.

So what do you think, is vision-based robotic manipulation and grasping a solved problem, seven years later? Is QT-Opt now an established industry standard in training robots with RL?

Or was that just another project that was announced with great fanfare and hailed as a breakthrough that would surely lead to great increase of capabilities... only to pop, fizzle and disappear in obscurity without any real-world result, a few years later? Like most of DeepMind's RL projects do?

Re:AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds wit... by SpaceManNabs on Monday April 07, 2025 @08:32PM (#43617279)
Let's look at 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-exzZ-CIUw

It looks pretty awesome. Let's see what happens.

Re:AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds wit... by YeGoblynQueenne on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @06:30PM (#43627113)
Nice robot demo. Here's another one:

https://youtu.be/03p2CADwGF8?si=BXeWXqu1_3WMS4yy

A robot assembling a puzzle with machine vision!

And it's only from the 1970's.

Re:AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds wit... by SpaceManNabs on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @06:08AM (#43630544)
i dont think those demos are comparable and cool for sharing your link!
Re:AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds wit... by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @07:12AM (#43630868)
Absolutely comparable. Consider what can be done today with hardware as powerful as in the 1970's and it's obvious that the needle hasn't budged one tick.

But, like you say- let's wait and see. I always do the former but I'm still waiting for the latter.