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A robot-arm system trained with demonstrations reportedly showed emergent behavior, including using its other hand to remove a ball stuck to its hand.
Tim Scarfe · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“And they had a robot arm and they were teaching it to do things so that they would.”
“they gave it a demonstration they said you know you pick up this ball you put it in the the bowl and and apparently it had these emergent abilities so for example sometimes the ball would get stuck to its hand and it would actually use this other hand and it would brush the ball off the hand and maybe that's a different thing because you're kind of providing constraints or providing demonstrations it kind of figures out you know how to do particular tasks but i was quite intrigued by that”Play from 2:08:31Report a misattribution
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