Physical World
topic on 8 shows · 10 statements across 10 episodes
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10 statements about Physical World, every show
Kalinowski: Digital AI will saturate and shift the frontier to hardware robotics
“What you can do behind a keyboard with AI is going to saturate. Now, I don't know when it's going to saturate. Nobody else knows either. But when that happens, the next frontier is the physical world.”
Balaji Srinivasan: AI verification is easier in the physical world
“Verification is actually harder in the digital world than is in the physical world, which means reinforcement learning and training is much easier, in my view, in the physical world with robots and self-driving cars, drones, and so on and so forth.”
Fedus: Reasoning and coding agents connect software AI to physical domains
“And I think those were foundational technologies necessary To then connect these systems to the physical world. Like it was just not impossible, not possible with like the AI technology of.”
Bevirt: In the age of AI, the physical world is the slowest link
“I think in the age of AI, the physical world is the slowest link.”
Adcock: AI has exhausted internet text tokens, requiring physical world data
“We've kind of, like we've, like, tapped out all the, kind of, tokens on the internet at this point. So we think, like, being able to explore the physical world is, like, extremely important for, like, overall intelligence.”
Gil: Physical-world data bottlenecks explain why AI breakthroughs began in language models
“Anytime you go into the physical world, it's always harder to generate data, and that's one of the reasons that the language models where you just effectively collect the wisdom of the internet digitally are the first places where we've really seen this scale …”
Xu: LLMs cannot answer real-time physical world questions
“Where is the last parking spot in a rainstorm here in San Francisco? How many apples does the local grocery store have in aisle six? These are questions that actually nobody has, no LLM has the answer to no one has the answer to, and I think that the physical …”
Koller: AI's next impact frontier is interacting with the physical world
“The next frontier of what a, of the impact that AI can have is when AI starts to touch the physical world.”
LeCun: Current LLMs have no real knowledge of physical reality
“Because the understanding that those, the current systems have of you know, the underlying reality that language expresses is extremely shallow. So those systems have only been trained with text a huge amount of text. So they can regurgitate texts that they've…”
Jason Fried: Physical retail enables faster experimentation than digital tech
“You can play around, I think, in the physical world a lot better, a lot faster, in fact, than in the technical world, and you can also pick up on things. You can see things that you can't necessarily see in the technical world.”