Jordan sits down with Bernt Bornich, founder & CEO of @1X-tech , to discuss how humanoid robots and AI will transform the way we work, produce, and live.
If you're interested in robotics, the future of labor, or AI that interacts with the physical world, don’t miss this one.
#robots #ai #decentralization #humanoids
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:07 Robotics Going From Specialized To General Systems
05:51 Having A Dystopian View Is Easy
07:35 Insane Amounts Of Data Are Needed For Robots To Work
12:16 Why Robot Data Is More Valuable Than Internet Data
15:56 Real-World Training Challenges
22:50 Social Context & The Intelligence Gap
28:56 World Models Breakdown
33:30 Reinforcement Learning Breakdown
40:18 Teleoperation Breakdown
42:21 Simulation Training Breakdown
45:38 Why 1X Is Fully Vertically Integrated
51:16 1X Humanoid Design Decisions
55:54 Rationale For Going Through The Home First
59:28 Importance Of Early Adopters
1:01:01 Rapid Fire: Robot Myths, Predictions, & Sci-Fi
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👉 Links to Bernt’s Work:
- 1X Technologies – https://www.1x.tech
- Twitter – https://x.com/berntbornich
- Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bbornich/
- LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernt-børnich-032ba38/?originalSubdomain=no
👉 Key Influences and Resources Mentioned:
- Paper: “World Models” by Ha and Schmidhuber (2018) – https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10122
- Book: Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark – https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/024123719X
- Research: “The Bitter Lesson” by Rich Sutton – https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson.pdf
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