A cardboard quadcopter, a robot built for tea, and years spent asking whether software could learn how to learn. That curiosity carried Luke Metz from Google Brain to ChatGPT, Thinking Machines Lab and Meta.
A childhood LEGO robot led to a larger question: why must every machine learn each chore from scratch? From a 2017 meta-learning paper to Physical Intelligence, Chelsea Finn has spent her career trying to make experience travel.