When he joined Google in 2015, Levine already knew Ilya Sutskever, another Russian émigré, and Sutskever introduced him to Alex Krizhevsky, who started working with the new robotics group. If he ever ran into a problem, Levine would ask Krizhevsky for help, and Krizhevsky’s advice was always the same: Collect more data. “If you have the data and it’s the right kind of data,” Krizhevsky would say, “then just get more of it.” So Levine and his team built what they called the Arm Farm.
