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It's not the learning that's the magic. It can be 30 minutes or 30 days. It hardly matters. Where the sparks fly is that learning can he transfered in .3 seconds to 300,000 other robots. And then updated as needed.

Now compare the to humans.

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It's that learning is local and quick that makes it able to be fully general. New environment? It can learn that.

The fact that it is learning online in fractions of a second to prevent falling (I would say) is pretty magic!

Or you can train multiple ones with a kind of evolutionary approach - e.g. you train 100 at the same time and after a day you take the one with the best results, overwrite the rest with it's weights/config/etc. and repeat until satisfied.

Right. But it's not the learning. It's the ability to scale what's learned.

Humans learns one by one by one effectively in silos.

Robots? There's no comparison.

Can’t humans do this with…the internet ?

Learn to walk?

I mean who knows with a computer / brain interface what we’ll be doing?

You do realize there are already plenty of species on Earth that come out ready to walk, forage, swim etc?

Over the internet, I can transfer the knowledge of Spanish to you in around ten years. In person it will be more like two.

Won’t be long until we have hardware that can change this no?

You won’t understand Spanish but it will translate in real-time for you ? Just like how this robodog doesn’t know what a stair is but knows how to navigate it. It doesn’t understand the way you do but it’s still useful.

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