Robert Playter
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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And part of this is the response to COVID and everybody's sort of thinking back what they really wanna do with their life.
So I think, frankly, this is the right technology at the right time where we're gonna need some of this work to be done and we're gonna want tools to enhance that productivity.
Well, anyone who deals with texts and writing a draft proposal might be easily done with ChatGPT now.
Consultants.
Where it wasn't before.
Journalists.
But on the other hand, you also want it to be right.
And they don't know how to make it right yet.
But it might make a good starting point for you to iterate.
We authored a letter and then got several leading robotics companies around the world, including Unitree and China and
Agility here in the United States and Animal in Europe and some others to co-sign a letter that said we won't put weapons on our robots.
And part of the motivation there is as these robots start to become commercially available, you can see videos online of people who've gotten a robot and strapped a gun on it and shown that they can
you know, operate the gun remotely while driving the robot around.
And so having a robot that has this level of mobility and that can easily be configured in a way that could harm somebody from a remote operator is justifiably a scary thing.
And so we felt like it was important to draw a bright line there and say, we're not going to allow this.
For...
reasons that we think ultimately it's better for the whole industry if it grows in a way where robots are ultimately going to help us all and make our lives more fulfilled and productive, but by goodness, you're gonna have to trust the technology to let it in.
And if you think the robot's gonna harm you, that's gonna impede the growth of that industry.
So we thought it was important to draw a bright line and then publicize that.
And our plan is to begin to engage with
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