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by YeGoblynQueenne 1004 days ago
I'm pretty sure that if I had never opened a door before and I saw somebody opening a door in a video, I would immediately know how to open doors just by watching the video. And that would be any door, with any kind of door handle. Not because I got superpowers, but because I'm average-human.

So, the moment your system needs this kind of data and that kind of data, oh and btw it needs a few hundreds of thousands of examples of all those kinds of data, that's very clear to me that it's far away from being capable of any kind of generalisation, any kind of learning general behaviour.

So that's "60 difficult, dexterous skills" today, "1,000 by the end of 2024", and when the aliens land to explore the ruins of our civilisation your robot will still be training on the 100,000'th "skill". And still will fall over and die when the aliens greet it.