Phillip Isola: LLM agents won't act alone, they'll call low-level controllers via code
phillip_isola · x · 2026-09-08
MIT professor Phillip Isola responded to Jitendra Malik's embodied-AI critique: he agrees on hierarchy and the need for low-level controllers, they just differ on where the line sits. Agents like Fable/Astra won't be used in isolation — they'll write code and call tools for lower-level execution, and work on those tools will be important.
Related event: Embodied AI debate escalates as Isola and Chalenti respond to Malik(2 posts)→
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