Chris Paxton

Chris Paxton

@cpaxton.bsky.social

Writing about robots https://itcanthink.substack.com/ RoboPapers podcast https://robopapers.substack.com/ All opinions my own

6,454 Followers 1,569 Following 4,626 Posts Joined Feb 2024
14 hours ago

I am gonna double down on this a little: the reaction of many senior academics to fairly banal LLM takes like ‘they’re useful tools’ is extremely unbecoming, & would, if I was your graduate student or junior colleague, actively make me feel like I had to either lie to you or de facto hobble myself

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6 hours ago

silicon valley

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6 hours ago

Actually I believe that's what Polymarket is for

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12 hours ago
Owner occupied houses good. Owner occupied apartments bad. Corporate owned rental houses THE WORST. Corporate owned apartments meh.

The folk morality around housing type and tenure in American cities:

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12 hours ago

I don't know if it's purely money; Amazon for example has likely an even bigger commitment, as their primary cloud partner; and google is similar

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13 hours ago

for a movie i mean

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13 hours ago

I am genuinely excited for this movie in a way i have not been in a very long time

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14 hours ago

Truly one of the worst implementations of a perfectly fine idea that I have ever seen

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17 hours ago
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Microsoft, of all companies, files amicus brief in support of Anthropic

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18 hours ago
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"How many robots did you break"

"One completely broken, three being repaired at all times"

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18 hours ago
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Suzhou-based Zeroth Robotics showing off a home robot

Showing off more of the user experience and the robot around people. While the autonomy is nothing crazy, its nice to see a glimpse of the robot in day to day life.

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1 day ago
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Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician

Next up: Your field. Whatever it is.

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“We are running out of places to hide,” wrote Jeremy Avigad at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania in a recent essay. “We have to face up to the fact that AI will soon be able to prove theorems better than we can.”
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1 day ago

Yeah its a cool line its just nonsense

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1 day ago
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And i was on another podcast-- as a guest co-host -- talking to Lujie Yang of Amazon FAR about omni retarget. How do we turn human data into good robot data, which takes contact into account?

Thanks to Eren Chen of booster for having me.

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1 day ago

This at is heart is what makes robotics so difficult

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Robot action tokens should be able to adapt to actions of varying levels of complexity - from our upcoming episode on OAT

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1 day ago

We should take people who say these things seriously and take their ideas seriously. This is actual no-shit eugenics if taken seriously. The implicit claim here is that things like MRI machines or pharmaceutical medications were a mistake. In the age of HHS Sec RFK Jr it’s not just harmless granola.

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1 day ago

I've read it before and it's a stupid quote

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1 day ago

Or more likely its just a silly internet quiz and means nothing

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1 day ago

Chose all 3 female writers over claude but neither of the male writers. clear takeaway is that women can write better than AI but men can't.

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1 day ago

What if this is just because i don't like cormac macarthy tho

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1 day ago

Robotics independently has been advancing pretty fast and there have been a few clear cases where end-to-end neural nets work for real tasks. Admittedly little evidence yet for commercially viable humanoids outside entertainment, but it seems to be coming. Cost of robots is way lower than before.

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Autonomously peeling an apple, from Sharpa. This company continues to produce the most impressive autonomous dexterous manipulation videos in the world. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.08122

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2 days ago
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Reflex robots can make a smoothie and help around the house

Yes its 2x speed and teleop but its still incredible

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2 days ago
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Reflex robots can make a smoothie and help around the house

Yes its 2x speed and teleop but its still incredible

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2 days ago

Please take this in a "why are people forcibly microchipping employees" way not a "why is the government doing things" way

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2 days ago

Why is this necessary

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2 days ago

my bill to ban employers from forcibly microchipping is raising a lot of questions answered by my bill

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3 days ago

just hanging out with the boys, living life, giving openclaw all our personal information

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2 days ago

Your Amazon robot delivery vehicle has one stop before your address

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