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Alex Modon

πŸ‘€ Speaker
170 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

there will always be a optimization benefit from having more more data points that you can feed in or more nuanced information.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

But to kind of beat status quo is just the bar is so unbelievably low.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

So yeah, I would I would say take the under on it and I think we will be at end end.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I think it's actually an important design paradigm is like for us specifically is like making sure that you design the system to actually be fully autonomous and to not be human in the loop.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I think it

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

For us, at least, it feels like it's driven a very different architecture.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Now, we similarly have put the bet that the model does get better.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And if it doesn't, then we're maybe back to the drawing board on aspects or we have something that fundamentally a gap will have to close.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

But yeah, the system itself needs to be kind of designed with the requirement that says this is designed to be end-to-end automated.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Well, I'm like super excited for the future to like feel like the future.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah, I think that's like incredibly inspiring.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Like I want to live in that world.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

It'll definitely be a core component of us.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And I think humanoid is like for the whole like.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

I mean, they'll totally be like all the above on stuff.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Like there's going to be just broadly more automation at large.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

But yeah, there's a reason that like centralizing around a design and mass manufacturing that design, ultimately, you know, the efficiency that you get out of manufacturing a thing and that learning rate and driving costs down incredibly low outweighs the nuanced custom efficiency.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And so, yeah, I think that that form factor will be very, very relevant for like an incredible scope.

The a16z Show
Designing the Physical World with AI

And there will be specialized robotics, too, in the same way that like when you engineer giant facilities, there's always these like kind of volume to surface areas, scaling laws that say you should customize that giant vessel.