Brett Adcock

13 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 5, 2025 by Brett Adcock · across every show →

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Nov 5, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: AI Hardware and Humanoids Will Replace Phones and Computers
“Yes. Every phone and computer was built pre-AI. The, All the hardware we have today in the world needs to be completely rebuilt from scratch.”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 31:05 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Humanoids will combine off-board cloud brains with fast on-board models
“I think you will certainly have off board reasoning. I think you will have, I think you'll have both. I think you'll have off-board, like, a big brain off-board that you need to talk to that can do very complex maybe planning and reasoning. You'll have on-boar…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 35:31 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Voice AI will approach human Turing tests within 12–18 months
“We will see in 12 to 18 months voice models approaching human Turing tests, and that's not just from an IQ perspective and information retrieval, it's EQ as well, as we just talked about in naturalness.”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 29:56 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Insight
Adcock: Hiring experienced big-company executives is a flawed playbook
“I've always I think my, like, the conventional wisdom of everything is to go out and hire somebody, like, really experienced that makes you feel really good from a really good background that's at a successful company. And I found, like, that playbook is just …”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 1:24:29 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
Insight
Adcock: Humanoid robotics fleet scaling instantly propagates skills from one robot to millions
“Once, like, one robot knows how to do, like, logistics, That's the same neural networks we can put to every single robot in the fleet, and they can all do it. And so you have this weird scaling law here for humanoids where once, like, one robot knows how to do…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 37:58 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Deep Learning Transfers From Logistics Tasks to Folding Laundry
“We are taking data from all the robots, and we are consulting that out to, like, our servers here at Figure, and we're training on that. And what we're seeing now is we're seeing, like, incredible transfer from other robot data that's helping the current robot…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 36:11 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Assertion Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Adcock: Figure AI robots can work full human shifts today
“I wouldn't say it's a blocker today. Like, we can, we, like, we can do work In a lot of cases, almost the whole day, depending on what the task looks like and if it's not that, if it's, you know, a task that has a lot of locomotion and movements, we can do kin…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 23:49 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Adcock: Humanoid robots are far less energy-efficient than biological humans
“Today we're like far, like less efficient than a human. Humans are like the, are, we are like extremely efficient. Like, our, you know, biological neural nets are really efficient. The way, the, how much energy, or how much power we use to exert, like, walking…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 22:32 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Goods and services prices will collapse toward zero with synthetic agents
“The prices of goods and services are, will slowly start collapsing, basically, anatomically approaching zero.”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 1:29:23 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Adcock: I Won't Let Figure Robots Roam Unsupervised Around My Kids
“I've had a robot in my house now for like a few months. And You know, my kids have been there, but we, like, we monitor the robot. So we're not, like, we're not, like, we're, like, we have somebody with the robot. Like, we're not letting the kids go up and hug…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 42:15 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Adcock: Figure 3 robot features three OLED screens and new audio system
“We have, like, in figure three, we have three screens. We have a front screen, like, an OLED. We have, like, two side screens. We can, like, I'll talk about that. We have a speaker and mic, a new speaker and mic system that's, like, really, actually really goo…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 27:59 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Adcock: Figure AI has over $1 billion in cash
“Like, for us, like, we have, like, we have, like, over a billion dollars of cash.”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 1:22:10 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Adcock: Robot costs will drop dramatically over the next five years
“You'll have this dramatic reduction here over the next, like, five years as we approach higher volume manufacturing, and then you'll have another step down once robots can fully build robots in the loop together, and you remove all human labor from the whole m…”
Brett Adcock Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 1:30:01 Humanoids Cost as Much as an SUV Now | Nikhil Kamath x Brett Adcock | WTF Online Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
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