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Figure’s AI Robot, AI News, Cognition’s Devin, and the biggest AI bet yet! | E1915

03.19.2024 - By Jason CalacanisPlay

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Todays show:

Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news, including the CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora (5:11), the FIgure AI robot (12:26), Devin, the first AI software engineer (38:17), and more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny joins Jason for a fun AI day!

(2:08) Elon and open source Grok vs “Closed” AI.

(5:11) The CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora.

(9:28) Exploring the fascinating AI robot from Figure.

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(12:26) Comparing the FIgure AI robot and what we have seen from Boston Dynamics and why this is impressive.

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(21:10) Thinking about how humans learn and applying that to AI.

(28:28) The idea that robots may one day be 1:1 with humans.

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(32:01) New bet alert! And it’s a major one. Sunny and JCal bet on how soon we will all have access to AI robots in our homes!

(38:17) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer!

(40:24) The “maestro” concept when working with AI.

(47:21) Hot news: Apple in talks to let Google Gemini power iPhone AI Features.

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LINKS:

Cognition’s Devin: https://www.cognition-labs.com/introducing-devin

Figure AI Robot: https://www.figure.ai/

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