robots

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 11, 2017 by Adam Coates · across every show →

Everything said about robots, oldest first

Aug 11, 2017 neutral
Opinion
Workers are not currently at risk of AI taking their jobs
“I don't think we're at risk of robots taking our jobs right now.”
Adam Coates Aug 11, 2017 ▶ 25:51 Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation · Y Combinator
Apr 25, 2018 neutral
Insight
Hwang: The public sees non-ML robots as AI, ignoring newsfeeds
“The newsfeed assuredly is AI, right? Like, it uses machine learning. It uses the latest machine learning to do what it does. We don't really think about it as AI, right? Whereas, like, the car is, like I mean, I think a lot of robots kind of fall into this cat…”
Tim Hwang Apr 25, 2018 ▶ 9:58 A.I. Policy and Public Perception - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
Jun 21, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Altman predicts robots will perform super useful tasks within years
“And I think in a few years robots will Start to do super useful stuff.”
Sam Altman Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 12:00 Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
Apr 16, 2026 bullish
Insight
Vuong: Cross-embodiment training teaches AI abstract, general control principles
“If you have enough robots in your training data, maybe what the model learned isn't to control one specific robot. What the model learned is something that's more abstract, which is how do I kind of learn a general notion of what it means to control any partic…”
Quan Vuong Apr 16, 2026 ▶ 5:50 The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
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