Optimist
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Michael: Boston Dynamics made less AI progress than Tesla Optimus
“Which is why Boston Dynamics didn't make as much progress as Optimist did in the AI. You know, the things that started later on robotics just worked better because they were more AI infused.”
Sanchez: Optimists make money while pessimists only sound smart
“Optimists, they sound too Pollyanna, but, and, but they make all the money, and pessimists sound smart and then make nothing.”
Calacanis predicts humanoid robots will massively outperform purpose-built industrial robotics
“Now we're going into general robotics, like the optimist, like the figure, and those are designed to be able to learn anything. And there'll be, they're going to be absolutely a game changer. They're going to be able to do a hundred times, a thousand times wha…”
Brynjolfsson: Both optimists and pessimists wrongly assume technology acts without human agency
“Both the optimist and the pessimist make the same mistake, and that is that they think of the world as something that gets decided for us. They think that the technology is going to do something to us. The reality is that these technologies are tools. In fact,…”