Brett Adcock

7 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 4, 2024 by Brett Adcock · across every show →

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Apr 4, 2024 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Adcock: No entity has delivered a commercial humanoid in human history
“Nobody's been able to deliver a commercial humanoid into a market in human history.”
Brett Adcock Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 13:18 No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure
Apr 4, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Everyone will eventually own a humanoid robot and labor will become optional
“I think over a long enough period of time, Everybody will own a humanoid just to do work for them. And you will choose, like. Labor will be optional, and you'll choose to do work or not.”
Brett Adcock Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 32:26 No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure
Apr 4, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Humanoid robot costs will fall to really affordable levels with scale
“There's a lot of preconceived notions that these will be really expensive. I do not think they'll be expensive. I think you know, we're working on cost reduction and stuff now, like the robots we have now, we've showed, are expensive. They're not cheap. The wo…”
Brett Adcock Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 32:42 No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure
Apr 4, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Adcock: Physical data from robots is crucial to achieving AGI
“We think that information is extreme, like coming off the robot is extremely important to solving this last big piece into the AGI timeline.”
Brett Adcock Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 37:23 No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure
Apr 4, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Adcock: LLMs struggle with physical world reasoning and action planning
“It's becoming more clear. I think at least to our team that at least these large language models are having a really difficult time, like reasoning around the physical world, planning actions, everything across the board.”
Brett Adcock Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 36:59 No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure
Apr 4, 2024
Opinion
Adcock: Humanoids must precede AGI to avoid humans becoming physical actuators
“My view here is that we need to get the humanoid robot figured out pre-AGI. And whether we need the humanoid to get there, like, as it relates to the timeline for AGI or not, what I think is a really quite dystopian future is if we have AGI's here, and AGI wan…”
Brett Adcock Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 35:53 No Priors Ep. 58 | The argument for humanoid robots with Brett Adcock from Figure
Jul 11, 2024
Insight
Adcock: Hardware development succeeds through iterative testing over theoretical analysis
“From like a thesis perspective, I strongly believe in like an iterative design approach. We really don't believe on spending a lot of time, like just doing research and analyzing. We spend a lot of time on just testing, building the testing here.”
Brett Adcock Jul 11, 2024 ▶ 9:36 No Priors Ep. 71: The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
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