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Next Unicorns: Empowering robots to think for themselves via AI with Covariant’s Peter Chen | E1795
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:49:19
Publish Date: 2023-08-23 17:32:04
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Covariant CEO Peter Chen joins Jason to discuss the future of AI in robotics (1:33), the key concepts of reinforcement learning (13:50), and much more!

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Time stamps: (00:00) Covariant CEO Peter Chen joins Jason (1:33) AI’s role in robotics and its value in e-commerce warehouses (7:38) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (8:59) Reinforcement learning today and the AlphaGo moment (13:50) The 2 key concepts of reinforcement learning (17:35) Approaches to accessing data for AI in robotics (20:35) Robotics hardware (22:50) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist (23:57) Covariant's hardware and software in use (27:32) The importance of adaptability (32:40) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/nextunicorn (34:08) The Tesla Optimus and humanoid robots

(39:58) Overcoming hardware constraints (44:38) Boomerang investors and customers * Follow Peter: https://twitter.com/peterxichen Check out Covariant : https://covariant.ai/

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