Sergey Levine

Those limits are increasing, to be clear, every year.

I think that there's no reason that we wouldn't see the same kind of thing with robots.

The scope will have to start out small because there will be certain things that these systems can do very well and certain other things where more human oversight is really important.

And the scope will grow and what that will translate into is increased productivity.

And some of that productivity will come from

like the robots themselves being valuable, and some of it will come from the people using the robots are now more productive in their work.

That's a very hard question to answer.

I think...

I'm probably not prepared to tell you what percentage of all labor work can be done by robots because I don't think right now off the cuff I have a sufficient understanding of what's involved in that big of a cross-section of all physical labor.

I think what I can tell you is this, that I think it's much easier to get effective systems rolled out gradually in a human-in-the-loop setup.

And again, I think this is exactly what we've seen with coding systems.

And I think we'll see the same thing with automation where

Basically, robot plus human is much better than just human or just robot.

And that just like makes total sense.

It also makes it much easier to get all the technology bootstrapped because when it's robot plus human, now there's a lot more potential for the robot to like actually learn on the job, acquire new skills.

It's just like, you know.

And also because the human can help.

The human can give hints.

You know, let me tell you this story.

When we were working on the Pio5 project, this was the paper that we released last April, we initially controlled our robots with teleoperation in a variety of different settings.