About this episode

The episode discusses Google DeepMind's robot that has learned to play table tennis at a human level.

Google DeepMind's robot is out proving itself. It's learned to play table tennis at a human level, beating beginners and even some intermediate players. It's still got some room for improvement, but this is a huge step forward in robotics. Let's discuss how this robot learns and the amazing potential of robots with language model brains.

People in this episode

Host: Anusha Pamidipati

Topics covered

• robotics
• table tennis
• machine learning
• artificial intelligence
• human-robot interaction

Keywords

• Google DeepMind
• robot
• table tennis
• machine learning
• artificial intelligence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google DeepMind

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