robotics

10 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2024 by Soumith Chintala · across every show →

Everything said about robotics, oldest first

Mar 6, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Chintala: Robotics requires engineering work rather than fundamental breakthroughs
“My view is actually hardware is still the bottleneck, and AI is also a little bit of bottleneck, but, like, I don't think there's any, like, obvious breakthroughs we need. I think it's just work.”
Soumith Chintala Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 1:22:36 Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
Mar 27, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Luan: Training foundation models for robotics via behavioral cloning will work
“One, I'm so excited for someone to train a foundation model of robots. Like, it's just, I think it's just gonna work. Like, I will die on this hill. I mean, like, again, this whole time, like, we've been on this podcast, just continually saying, you know, like…”
David Luan Mar 27, 2024 ▶ 44:47 Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
Nov 28, 2024 neutral
Insight
Schluntz: Reliability, not demo capability, is the bottleneck for robotics
“I think that for robotics, the limiting factor is going to be reliability. That these models are really good at doing these demos of, like, doing laundry or doing dishes. If they only work 99% of the time, like, that sounds good, but that's actually really ann…”
Erik Schluntz Nov 28, 2024 ▶ 1:02:52 The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
Aug 15, 2025
Assertion Supported
Brockman: OpenAI's robotics team pivoted to build GitHub Copilot
“And we've been through times where, for example, robotics was one in 2018, where we had a great result, but we kind of realized that actually, like, that we can move so much faster in a different domain, right? That, that actually, you know, we had this great …”
Greg Brockman Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 1:02:01 Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
Nov 25, 2025 positive
Opinion
Li: Marble has real potential to generate synthetic data for robotics
“Marble actually is a, Really potential for helping to generate these synthetic simulated worlds for embodied agent training.”
Fei-Fei Li Nov 25, 2025 ▶ 40:13 After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
Dec 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
General Intuition aims to drive 80% of AI physical interactions by 2030
“In the atoms to atoms stage, I want, like, I want GI models to be responsible for 80% of all the atoms to atoms interactions driven by AI models and the reason for that is because we were able to unblock intelligence so quickly, and robotics, like, intelligenc…”
Pim de Witte Dec 6, 2025 ▶ 1:03:11 World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
Dec 30, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Nair: AI robotics is currently in its 'GPT-1 to GPT-2' era
“Yeah, like I would say that robotics is in kind of like the GPT-one to GPT-two area right now.”
Ashvin Nair Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 4:54 [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
Dec 30, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Nair: Robotics investments today back teams, not proven technology
“Yeah, I think at this point, especially, it still feels like in robotics, you're not exactly investing in a technology, probably, you're just investing in a team.”
Ashvin Nair Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 5:34 [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
Dec 30, 2025 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Nair: LLM agents will hit $1T before robotics hits $10B
“It feels like LLM agents are going to be like a trillion dollar market before robotics is maybe even like a ten billion dollar market.”
Ashvin Nair Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 3:59 [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
Jun 1, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ethan He: Powerful video AI will naturally learn to control physical robots
“Once these models can use computers and understand the future state of computer extremely well, the robots might be Might be one of the tools a very powerful AI can use. So the powerful AI might just be able to control the physical embodiment naturally.”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 1:33:20 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
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