The Problem with this Humanoid Robot
Rant. We have a problem. Joanna's WSJ video: https://youtu.be/f3c4mQty_so?si=XfZ9c5-3VKjYPeru The Neo humanoid robot: https://x.com/1x_tech/status/1983233494575952138 MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com Intro Track: Jordyn Edmonds Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5 ~ http://twitter.com/MKBHD http://instagram.com/MKBHD http://facebook.com/MKBHD
Video Chapters
- 0:22 The Ultimate AI Home Helper?
- 1:47 The Catch: It's a Preorder
- 3:41 The Reality Behind the Demo
- 5:29 A Parallel to Tesla's Self-Driving
- 6:50 The Gap Between Promise and Reality
- 8:45 The Immense Learning Challenge for AI
- 11:29 Are Early Adopters Just Beta Testers?
- 12:28 A Familiar Pattern of AI Hype
- 14:31 The New "AI Promise" Problem
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0:22 The Ultimate AI Home Helper? 1:47 The Catch: It's a Preorder 3:41 The Reality Behind the Demo 5:29 A Parallel to Tesla's Self-Driving 6:50 The Gap Between Promise and Reality 8:45 The Immense Learning Challenge for AI 11:29 Are Early Adopters Just Beta Testers? 12:28 A Familiar Pattern of AI Hype 14:31 The New "AI Promise" Problem Timestamps by StampBot 🤖 (298-the-problem-with-this-humanoid-robot)
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0:00 This AI Home Robot is the most futuristic product we've ever seen 0:22 Check out all the incredible features this Humanoid Robot has 0:44 Robot is doing chores, folding laundry, washing dishes and more 1:08 This Neo robot helps in all chores, even watering plants and charging itself 1:47 It's not real, this tech announcement of 2025 is a preorder 2:21 The price is not the problem, it's a first generation bleeding-edge humanoid robot 3:00 The gap between what it's actually capable of today and what's promised 3:41 WSJ shows Neo robot remotely controlled by a human in another room 4:18 All the incredible robot tasks in the Neo video are actually tele-operated 4:54 The only autonomous tasks shown: opening a door and grabbing a cup 5:29 Tesla Self-Driving as a parallel example for how AI is being sold 6:06 Tech companies selling the dream before they sell the actual product 6:50 The issue is the gap between what AI is capable of today and what's promised 7:50 This robot has to learn what cups and forks are and how to pick them up 8:45 Self-driving cars learn to navigate situations on the road from millions of cars 9:55 Companies use early adopters to beta test to make the systems better 10:48 You don't make a perfect home robot without all of this information 11:29 Early adopters are beta testers for some unknown number of years 12:28 Humane Pin and Rabbit R1: Promising the world, but not good enough 13:48 The Neo robot has a number of situations where it could be dangerous 14:31 This is the new AI promise problem: The gap is the issue 15:23 History is suggesting that MKBHD will probably be right about this one Timestamps by StampBot 🤖 (298-the-problem-with-this-humanoid-robot)