Robert Playter

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics · 28 Apr 2023 podcast

truth or emotions, that's just a very different kind of knowledge that is absolute.

The interesting thing about truth is it's absolute, and it doesn't matter how frequently it's represented in the World Wide Web.

If you know it to be true, it may only be there once, but by God, it's true.

And I think emotions are a little bit like that, too.

You know something, you know, and

And I just think that's a different kind of knowledge than the way these large language models derive sort of simulated intelligence.

They have everything to do with... There needs to be some process of labeling, I think, what is true.

Because there is also disinformation available on the web, and these models are going to consider that kind of information as well.

And again, you can't average something that's true and something that's untrue and get something that's moderately true.

It's either right or it's wrong.

And so how is that process, and this is obviously something that

the purveyors of these, Bard and ChatGPT, I'm sure this is what they're working on.

Well, I would say follow your heart and your interest.

Again, this was an organizing principle, I think, behind the leg lab at MIT that turned into a value at Boston Dynamics, which was follow your curiosity, love what you're doing, you'll have a lot more fun, and you'll be a lot better at it as a result.

I think it's hard to plan.

You know, don't get too hung up on planning too far ahead.

Find things that you like doing and then see where it takes you.

You can always change direction.

You will find things that, you know, that wasn't a good move.

I'm going to back up and go do something else.

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