Deepak Pathak: Earth's Only AGI Came From Billions of Years of Physical Self-Play, and Robots Will Scale It
deepakpathak · x · 2026-09-24
CMU's Deepak Pathak declares: "The only AGI on Earth emerged after billions of years of physical self-play. Robots won't be any different. This method scales, and we will scale it." Renowned robot-learning researcher Jitendra Malik endorsed it, quoting Merleau-Ponty: "We know not through our intellect but through our experience" — RL for robots as experience is for humans.
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