Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedSergey Levine: uncertainty
12 Sept 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
“Probably it requires as much experience as the language stuff. But because we don't know the answer to that, to me a much more useful way to think about it is not how much data do we need to get before we're fully done, but how much data do we need to get before we can get started.”
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- Sergey Levine
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- 12 Sept 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…The vision you have of robotics, will it not be possible until you collect what, 100x, 1000x more data? That's the thing, we don't know that. It's certainly very reasonable to infer that robotics is a tough problem. Probably it requires as much experience as the language stuff. But because we don't know the answer to that, to me a much more useful way to think about it is not how much data do we need to get before we're fully done, but how much data do we need to get before we can get started. That means before we can get a data flywheel that represents a self-sustaining and ever-growing data-collection recipe. When you say self-sustaining, is it just learning on the job or do you have something else in mind?…
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