Chasing Immortality with Humanoid Robots | Eric Jang, S3 Episode 54

While filming with Neo in my apartment I sat down with VP of AI @ericjang11 to learn about 1X's approach to robot intelligence and his his curiosity around immortality.

0:00 Intro

1:27 1X Overview

2:12 Eric's Origin

5:15 Why humanoids?

11:30 Supercomputers & deep learning

12:45 World models

14:21 Neuromorphic computing

14:40 Immortality

20:15 Robotics at Google

21:35 Skepticism of humanoids

27: 00 Joining 1X

31:20 Benefits of LLMs

33:50 Training models

35:30 Tele-op to autonomous 

43:30 Data quality vs. quantity

47:00 How to train your robot

50:50 Data sponge

53:30 The 1X team

54:45 Safety

57:45 A lab in the cloud

59:26 Bio advancements

1:03:54 How does your brain work

1:06:14 Conway’s law

1:08:45 Eric’s favorite sci-fi

1:10:50 Life philosophy