Aaron Slodov @aphysicistthe white house just declared our dependence on imported robots and industrial machinery a national security threat. no new tariffs yet. trade negotiations come first. the bigger point: rebuilding american industry means building the machines that make everything else.
dnap @dnapwayDario reveals the people who called his GPT-2 fears "pseudoscience" in 2019 are now all applying for jobs at AI labs "I personally was super freaked out by [GPT-2]. I looked at it and I said, my God, you just scale this thing up another factor of a million and it'll be better than humans at everything. This is the defining economic and scientific moment of the modern age. We just don't know it yet. This is going to determine the fate of nations and economies and the future of humanity." "Maybe 10% of the people around me had exactly the same reaction, and it was often the smartest ones. 90% of the people around me, because GPT-2's capabilities in any particular area were not that impressive, it could translate languages, summarize a document and write a few lines of code here and there. It was the broadness and the generality." "But people would look at it and say, in any particular area, that doesn't seem so smart. And so many people just shrugged and they just dismissed it." "I just look at it and I say it's the same thing over and over again. The limitations of the models, six months from now, the things that seemed hard, they're going to be easy. 12 months from now, the things that seemed impossible, the models are going to be doing them regularly." "It's everything we saw with GPT-2; we're seeing it over and over again in wider and wider swaths of the world. And the world is gradually finally being convinced." Daniela Amodei: "I remember at the time there were some very well-respected computer scientists and AI and ML leaders who basically bullied some of the researchers who worked on [GPT-2] on Twitter and were like, this is stupid. We don't know why you guys are even talking, this model is so incapable." "It was like you were sort of a quack if you believed this was a really significant moment." Dario: "That's all been memory-holed. All the researchers who were like, oh, this is pseudoscience, it doesn't make sense, all of them are applying for jobs at the LLM companies." "We never say it out loud to any particular one, but we look at them and they're like, we remember what you were saying in 2019. You have no credibility on this matter."
Andrew Kang @RewkangWhen is the ChatGPT moment for robotics? Some say it's happened, some say it's coming. How capable are Physical AI models today? What does the adoption curve for robotics look like? We've talked to most of the major players and make sense of it here
RoboStrategy @RoboStrategyA Tesla supplier says Optimus V3 is basically done. So why are they hiding it? Full discussion: 0:00 Why Tesla is hiding Optimus V3 2:16 V3 hardware frozen 6:35 The pickle jar and robot skin problem 12:48 Optimus 2.5 hand tendon clip 16:06 Fingertip skin patent 22:03 Production snags in hands and joints 25:58 Theory: a 5,000 robot V3 reveal 32:02 AI5 chip and DRAM change 38:01 The Optimus factory at Giga Texas 42:41 Ramp to millions by 2030 @GoingBallistic5 @herbertong
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RoboStrategy @RoboStrategyStandard Bots CEO @evanbeard breaks down their new AI platform and how it could revolutionize American manufacturing. "This allows you to essentially vibe code your robot" Full interview: 0:00 Intro 6:39 Vibe coding robots 8:19 Locate vision system 11:52 400+ customers 13:58 Origin story 16:08 Where are the competitors? 18:56 Vertical integration is key 22:29 Why robot arms over humanoids 27:04 Robots vs the car industry 29:23 The thing to fear as a builder 31:31 America vs China 34:21 Congress and FCC robot ban 38:31 99% of US arms made abroad 42:31 Building everything inhouse 44:47 The plan to win 47:10 Targeting 10% of US installs 49:22 How the next decade will look like
Standard Bots @standardbotsIntroducing Standard Bots AI “We chose Standard Bots for two reasons: the speed of development is highly compressed, and the interface for programming the robot is so much simpler. With Standard Bots AI, that's even faster.” — Adrian Nistler, President and CEO, Path Machining & Automation Standard Bots AI robots deliver dramatically faster setups, faster changeovers, and faster paybacks. This is why robots are the new essential power tool of the 21st century. Our mission is to expand human capacity with the world’s most accessible robots. We’re building this future in Glen Cove, New York, and on hundreds of factory floors, and counting. Say yes to more:
Standard Bots @standardbots"If you have an iPad, you can vibe code robots. And potentially save your company millions of dollars while you’re at it." @Forbes robotics reporter @johnkoetsier interviewed @evanbeard for an exclusive on the launch of Standard Bots AI. Read the story here:
