Why OpenAI gave up on robotics - Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist)

[Jackson_rw]

My guy needs to just commit to the baldness

[Brahvim]

0:51 I love how entertained Dwarkesh looks!

[AfricanManikin]

Might have just described Tesla Optimus evolution in general gigafactories 😅.

They see/feel/hear/ and move in the real world collecting and correlating with thousands of vehicle data. What a MOAT

[JMeyer-qjpv]

How times have changed. He talks about needing to build thousands of robots to collect training data, but now most of the robot training is done using software in virtual worlds. Ironically some of the robot manufacturers are using OpenAI's APIs for giving their bots the ability to understand and respond to verbal commands.

[Eag]

Illya got my respect for bringong up the topic that this generation needs. Academia needs more Engineers like Iklya; Govt need to invest in academia: Stem programs, Math and sciences in elementary, highschool and college. The lack of Engineers in the world it's sad.

[tigran.aghababyan]

What about virtual robots simulation - can't it replace real robots for collecting data?

[thusspokezarathustra]

The emergence of robotics is essentially an economic question. Do robots inhance production output? Does the cost of utility of robots within production reduce the cost if production? Finally how robust is the robot in terms of its replacement frequency? The best study to establish all three of these economic viability questions is the motor vehicle manufacturing industry. Observing the massive uptake of basic robotics within that industry the conclusion must be that the use of robotics does improve production output and importantly the overall quality of build, as well as reducing the unit cost of output. Robots don't require breaks other than maintenance; don't demand higher wages; don't demand better working conditions; never call in ill. Therefore the is massive potential for robotics to replace all tasks that are currently preformed by human labour which entails high levels of strenious work that leads to human fatigue or breakdown of focus. Such utility robots do not necessary need to mirror human form (humanlike robotics) to be highly efficient.

[EamonnMooney]

Translation: We can make more money, at higher scale, from automating white collar knowledge jobs than blue collar physical jobs.

[erikals]

OpenAI didn't really give up on Robotics though, just months ago they bought the Robot tech-neo 1X,
tech-neo 1X will be driven by GPT5.

[BrianMosleyUK]

Only a matter of time before Ilya moves to Tesla imho.

Not sure I'd trust Ilya with a robot army though 😂

[Jeton]

in other words, AGI/GAI is an inevitable artifact of The Overlords replacing both white collar AND blue collar workers...but will AGI/GAI serve those Overlords, or devour them? do they hope for that?

[DanFrederiksen]

Interesting. I think there are some aspects he's overlooking here.

[SkpalTube]

Aren't Tesla self-driving cars similar to robots? They are collecting information and improving the model.

[xonious]

we will need a large movement model. gather information by placing sensors on human joints on millions of people. No need for actual robots until the large movement model is created. This guy is well known but has no clue.

[danielmagner]

Robots would collect a crap ton of noval data

[nicholasmordin]

This is nonsense. Look at the huge investment Open AI made in 1x and the android NEO they have developed which is set to be demoed on Jan 25-26.

[BrightMatolo]

<|> I believe we are meant to be like Jesus in our hearts and not in our flesh. But be careful of AI, for it is just our flesh and that is it. It knows only things of the flesh (our fleshly desires) and cannot comprehend things of the spirit such as peace of heart (which comes from obeying God's Word). Whereas we are a spirit and we have a soul but live in the body (in the flesh). When you go to bed it is your flesh that sleeps but your spirit never sleeps (otherwise you have died physically) that is why you have dreams. More so, true love that endures and last is a thing of the heart (when I say 'heart', I mean 'spirit'). But fake love, pretentious love, love with expectations, love for classic reasons, love for material reasons and love for selfish reasons that is a thing of our flesh. In the beginning God said let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness. Take note, God is Spirit and God is Love. As Love He is the source of it. We also know that God is Omnipotent, for He creates out of nothing and He has no beginning and has no end. That means, our love is but a shadow of God's Love. True love looks around to see who is in need of your help, your smile, your possessions, your money, your strength, your quality time. Love forgives and forgets. Love wants for others what it wants for itself. Take note, true love works in conjunction with other spiritual forces such as patience and faith (in the finished work of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, rather than in what man has done such as science, technology and organizations which won't last forever). To avoid sin and error which leads to the death of our body and also our spirit in hell fire, we should let the Word of God be the standard of our lives not AI. If not, God will let us face AI on our own and it will cast the truth down to the ground, it will be the cause of so much destruction like never seen before, it will deceive many and take many captive in order to enslave them into worshipping it and abiding in lawlessness. We can only destroy ourselves but with God all things are possible. God knows us better because He is our Creater and He knows our beginning and our end. Our prove text is taken from the book of John 5:31-44, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Daniel 2, Daniel 7-9, Revelation 13-15, Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21. Let us watch and pray... God bless you as you share this message to others.