Jason Ma argues by analogy that people need substantial training to make beds to a particular hotel’s standards, just as robots need task-specific training.

“that we can get but we're also thinking about how do we get more custom data either collected in-house or by our partner for like really you know specific niche tasks because i think you still need that to get to you know excellence that you know any model needs to actually be useful in the physical world right it's kind of like humans you know you uh you know if you know sean or me you know we go work at rosewood hotel tomorrow we're not going to be able”

“and be able to make the bed the way they want right we need a lot of training so that kind of data like special data it's kind of like what we're close doing today for language model i think will be very very valuable for robotics as well”