These videos of a humanoid watching itself in a mirror are a cool test of a “self” model. The robot’s world model tries to predict the next visual inputs. It can predict its own movements from a first-person view but doesn’t map the mirrored body to its own, and thus, the

Would love to see these examples scaled up into a larger benchmark about models of self.

These videos of a humanoid watching itself in a mirror are a cool test of a “self” model. The robot’s world model tries to predict the next visual inputs. It can predict its movements from a first-person view but doesn’t map the mirrored body to its own, and thus, the mirrored view doesn't match.

Incredible to see that the fruit fly connectome has been completed. I remember as an undergraduate watching
Sebastian Seung in 2007 give the presidential lecture at SFN mysteriously titled: “The Once and Future Science of Neural Networks.”