robots
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2016 by Gary Marcus · across every show →
Everything said about robots, oldest first
Jan 25, 2016 negative
Marcus: Reinforcement learning fails in physical robotics due to real-world damage costs
“But it's another thing if you import those same techniques into robots. If you have your robots doing reinforcement learning, which is basically trial and error learning, they start knocking over the furniture a 100,000 times, you're probably gonna send it bac…”
Aug 27, 2026 bearish
Automating AI research and hardware manufacturing enables AI takeovers
“If AIs could just automate AIR&D and automate, like, sort of the industrial process of building more computers, then you could quickly end up in a In a process where sort of like robots are building robots and the whole world is greatly transformed. And that v…”