Jordan sits down with Bernt Bornich, founder & CEO of  @1X-tech , to discuss how humanoid robots and AI will transform the way we work, produce, and live.

• Bernt shares his vision for building an AGI company that uses robots to solve both intelligence and general labor
• Why the internet is much smaller than you think
• Challenges with AI training data and robot performance
• Why 1X Technologies is fully vertically integrated
• 1x’s strategy behind deploying robots in homes before workplaces
• The role of AI in enabling robots to interact with the physical world

If you're interested in robotics, the future of labor, or AI that interacts with the physical world, don’t miss this one.

#robots #ai #decentralization #humanoids

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:07 Robotics Going From Specialized To General Systems

05:51 Having A Dystopian View Is Easy

07:35 Insane Amounts Of Data Are Needed For Robots To Work

12:16 Why Robot Data Is More Valuable Than Internet Data

15:56 Real-World Training Challenges

22:50 Social Context & The Intelligence Gap

28:56 World Models Breakdown

33:30 Reinforcement Learning Breakdown

40:18 Teleoperation Breakdown

42:21 Simulation Training Breakdown

45:38 Why 1X Is Fully Vertically Integrated

51:16 1X Humanoid Design Decisions

55:54 Rationale For Going Through The Home First

59:28 Importance Of Early Adopters

1:01:01 Rapid Fire: Robot Myths, Predictions, & Sci-Fi

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👉 Links to Bernt’s Work:

- 1X Technologies – https://www.1x.tech

- Twitter – https://x.com/berntbornich

- Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bbornich/

- LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernt-børnich-032ba38/?originalSubdomain=no

👉 Key Influences and Resources Mentioned:

- Paper: “World Models” by Ha and Schmidhuber (2018) – https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10122

- Book: Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark –  https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/024123719X

- Research: “The Bitter Lesson” by Rich Sutton – https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson.pdf

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