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Published · transcript-backedSergey Levine: uncertainty
12 Sept 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
“We're already trying to figure out what are the real things this thing can do that could allow us to start spinning the flywheel. But in terms of stuff that you would actually care about, that you would want to see… I don't know but single-digit years is very realistic.”
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- Sergey Levine
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- uncertainty
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- 12 Sept 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…When does the flywheel start? That could be very soon. There's some decisions to be made. The trade-off there is that the more narrowly you scope the thing, the earlier you can get it out into the real world. But this is something we're already exploring. We're already trying to figure out what are the real things this thing can do that could allow us to start spinning the flywheel. But in terms of stuff that you would actually care about, that you would want to see… I don't know but single-digit years is very realistic. I'm really hoping it'll be more like one or two before something is actually out there, but it's hard to say. Something being out there means what? What is out there?…
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