Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSoumith Chintala: belief
6 Mar 2024 Latent Space Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
“My view is actually hardware is still the bottleneck and AI is also a little bit of bottleneck, but I don't think there's any obvious breakthroughs we need.”
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- Soumith Chintala
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- 6 Mar 2024
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…On a more, yeah, maybe open editing. What are the things that you're most excited about beyond text generation and kind of the more mundane usage? Yeah, I mean, in general, I have more things I'm generally excited about than I can possibly do. Investing is one way to try to clear those urges. I'm generally excited about robotics being a possibility, home robotics being five to seven years away into commercialization. I think it's not next year or two years from now, but five to seven years from now, I think a lot more robotics companies might pop out. There's not a good consensus on whether hardware is a bottleneck or AI is a bottleneck in robotics right now. My view is actually hardware is still the bottleneck and AI is also a little bit of bottleneck, but I don't think there's any obvious breakthroughs we need. I think it's just work. So I'm generally excited about robotics. I spend a lot of personal time. I spend every Wednesday afternoon at NYU working with Lerrel Pinto and team and just getting towards my home robot that just does my dishes and stuff. What's the status of it? Like what does it do for you now?…
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