Casado: There is now real line of sight to economically viable embodied AGI
Martin Casado · The Future of AI Is Amazing · Mar 5, 2024 · at 9:45
Martin Casado, General Partner at a16z, delivers a keynote on the future pillars of AI, highlighting robotics as an economically viable next frontier.
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“And if you really want some prognostication for this is all going, I mean, for the first time, I say there is actually real line of sight to embodied AGI. And by embodied AGI, I mean, something that's economically viable. So you don't have a bunch of robots that can't work because they're too expensive, like actually like solving problems that we need to have solved.”
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