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A humanoid robot fetching milk from a refrigerator is much harder than athletic demonstrations because the task involves a contact-rich environment that is difficult to model and gather data from.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“pick out a carton of milk and bring it to me. The reason I don't...”
“do that don't do it is because that would be a much much much harder task because you have this uh this this contact rich environment which is hard to model and it's hard to gather data the bet for all of these like world model startups or world model papers is we can gather all the data you will need and just kind of distill everything all these dynamics can distill this into a model and i don't think this is kind of i don't think it's a reason”Play from 2:06:37Report a misattribution
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