Evan Morikawa

@E0M

VPE @Generalistai. GP ZSF. Prev: led eng at @openai. Launched & scaled ChatGPT, & APIs. @OlinCollege alum.

San Francisco, CA

Joined January 2009

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Evan Morikawa
@E0M
Aug 19
The GPT-3 moment is here
Generalist
@GeneralistAI
Aug 19
Introducing GEN-1.5, a one-shot learner. It can learn new tasks in a few seconds. Show it what to do, and it generalizes. This capability emerged from pretraining on physical data at scale, as a step towards our mission of building general intelligence for the physical world.
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Evan Morikawa
@E0M
Jul 23
Thoughts on high-DoF 5-finger hands I believe a perfect robot replica of the human hand could have complete overlap w/ the space of human potential However I think this undersells the potential of robotics & ignores the practicalities of early deployment and its benefits One
Generalist
@GeneralistAI
Jul 23
Why create robot intelligence for just one hand, when we could have it learn from many? GEN-1, our latest embodied foundation model, now supports a broad range of end effectors from 5-finger hands, to specialized tools, and everything in between.
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Evan Morikawa
@E0M
Jul 23
This is an extremely common repetitive industrial task still done by humans. Most industrial screwdrivers are these driving-force-activated, torque-calibrated, powered systems. It's just consumers who think you need a trigger finger.
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Evan Morikawa
@E0M
Jul 23
Duct tape
Generalist
@GeneralistAI
Jul 23
Replying to @GeneralistAI
What happens when you change the hand mid-task? We tested this by modifying the hands mid-rollout and letting the same model keep running. It perceives the new tool, and finds a new trajectory and contact strategy to complete the task. This works because training on mixed data
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Evan Morikawa
@E0M
Jul 23
"Nature didn’t converge on just a single solution for manipulating the physical world." (Ours evolved to climb trees)
Generalist
@GeneralistAI
Jul 23
Replying to @GeneralistAI
If we can build general intelligence that understands the underlying physics of interaction, then the shape of the hand becomes secondary to the intelligence that drives it. A suction pad, a gripper, a brush, a plasma welding nozzle – are all just different interfaces through
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