Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #412

THIS is the kind of interview I subscribed for.

The future oscillates drastically between tech-topia and complete and utter devastation.

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25 years ago i was buying my first mp3 player, the biggest card i could get for it was 16 mb, it had 16 mb built in cost £250 and i loved it, 2005 im paying £400 for a 512mb sd card that jump in 6 years was crazy, 1998 if you had a 5gb hard drive it was over kill, the game half-life was 70mb in size and what a game it was, nowadays the top titles can be easily 100 gb in size. Can you imagine the jump in 25 years from now, hopefully at 75 i will be around and witness the crazy development tech goes in, to be around from almost the beginning when having a digital clock radio was high tech or having a solar power calculator in school that fitted into your ruler, to where we are now is mind blowing, its still disappointing cars cant fly but who knows.

Having this guy at the forefront of AI development and research would make me feel a lot more comfortable with where it might go rather than Sam Altman. No PR training, no corporate speak, wisdom gained from real life experience. Seems like a great guy who just wants to build robots.

Clear my schedule, new Lex just dropped.

Marc: "pixel values aren't like words". Sora: "Hold my beer"

I missed you Lex 🥲

I like the idea of developing perfect fumbling

This guy is creating a weapon even better than the atomic bomb and he is smilling with his flower shirt....