AI is only powerful when trained on real-world physical data
Physical AI is the idea that models will finally step out of the chatbot and into the real world of robots, factories, and labs. Cyriac Roeding said physical AI is only interesting when you train it on physical-world data. A world model is only as good as the physical reality it learns from. In biology, that reality is generated by pipettes and a vivarium full of mice, not scraped from the internet. The loop fed by real-world data nobody else has is owned.
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