17 connected korrents · 14 moments from 1 Oct 2023 to 21 Oct 2026.
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Industrial-scale automation will be done by specialised machines that move on wheels, not by humanoid robots, which only suit low-scale tasks in human environments.
Last stated 14 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Travis Kalanick
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Same subject: robotics
A highly dynamic economy that cheaply mass-produces robots may increase rather than decrease the risk of Malthusian resource dilemmas.
Last stated 1 Oct 2023 · 3 years ago
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Tyler Cowen
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Same subject: robotics
A humanoid robot is the wrong tool on a factory floor, because a machine specialised in the task beats it.
Last stated 6 Apr 2025 · 2 years ago
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Molson Hart
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Same subject: robotics
A physical AI agent has to be safe on day one, because you cannot ship something merely good enough and let users find the edge cases.
Last stated 3 Aug 2026 · 3 months ago
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Dmitri Dolgov
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Same subject: robotics
A robot does not need video to remember the last hour: past a few seconds, memory can be a text summary of what happened.
Last stated 12 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Chelsea Finn
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Same subject: robotics
A robot going down a wrong path is not producing training data; the efficient move is for a human to intervene and show the recovery.
Last stated 12 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Chelsea Finn
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Same subject: robotics
A robot is not a mechanical person; the right analogy is a car or a bulldozer, and heterogeneous machines will beat humanoids.
Last stated 12 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Sergey Levine
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Same subject: robotics
A robot needs far less memory than it seems, because Moravec's paradox says the cognitively demanding tasks are the ones that need context, not the physical ones.
Last stated 12 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Sergey Levine
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Same subject: robotics
A robot that can run a household is a single-digit number of years away, and the missing pieces are a synthesis of ideas we already have rather than new ones.
Last stated 12 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Sergey Levine
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Same subject: reinforcement learning
A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score.
Last stated 26 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Henrik Karlsson
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Same subject: reinforcement learning
A physical AI company needs three AIs, not one — the agent, the simulator and the critic — turning deployment into a flywheel.
Last stated 3 Aug 2026 · 3 months ago
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Dmitri Dolgov
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Same subject: reinforcement learning
A verifiable task can be optimised by reinforcement learning until a neural network performs it extremely well.
Last stated 17 Nov 2025 · 11 months ago
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Andrej Karpathy
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Same subject: self-driving cars
A five-year-old's vision is already good enough to drive a car, on a tiny and strikingly undiverse amount of data.
Last stated 25 Nov 2025 · 11 months ago
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Ilya Sutskever
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Same subject: self-driving cars
A good robotaxi demonstration in one city does not mean the company is ready to scale the service.
Last stated 8 Jul 2025 · a year ago
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Timothy B. Lee
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Same subject: self-driving cars
A huge fleet collecting driving data is not a silver bullet for self-driving, because the data arrives unlabelled.
Last stated 21 May 2024 · 2 years ago
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Timothy B. Lee
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Same subject: OpenAI
A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week.
Last stated 21 Oct 2026 · 2 days ago
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Peter Steinberger
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Same subject: OpenAI
A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests.
Last stated 18 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Sam Altman
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Same subject: OpenAI
A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact.
Last stated 12 Feb 2026 · 8 months ago
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Andrej Karpathy