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Robots in Your Home, AI in Your Job, and Inside AI's Mind
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ROBOTICS 00:21 Intro: Robotics, the job/math/physics apocalypses, and understanding AI's mind 01:00 Why robots thrive in factories but struggle in our homes 03:53 Forty years of Boston Dynamics progress 05:28 Are today's humanoid robots secretly human-operated? 06:14 Laundry-folding robots: From painfully slow to real time 08:42 Why human hands and sensors are so hard to replicate 11:38 AI-powered drones and the future of autonomous warfare 12:39 RuneBench: What RuneScape teaches us about LLM-powered robots 14:46 Can general-purpose LLMs replace specialized robot AI? 17:49 Why a useful household robot needs to master thousands of tasks 19:58 Self-assembling robots, OpenAI humanoids, and…