Robert Scoble ✓
@Scobleizer · San Jose, California, USA · joined 20 Nov 2006
Fan of new things and the people who build them | San Francisco/Silicon Valley AI | Ex-Microsoft, Rackspace, Fast Company | Wrote eight books about the future.
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The flies are surfing.
I didn't have that on my bingo card for today.
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A DEAD FLY'S BRAIN WIPED OUT 262 TIMES, THEN SURFED FOR 41 SECONDS
Balance is the oldest unsolved problem in robotics. Humanoids that cost millions still fall over.
-> This one had the loop already in it.
The rider is male CNS v1.0: 166,700 traced cells and 25.56 million https
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This whole last week reminds me of running marathons in high school.
I would slow my coach and training partners down by pleading.
Even that usually didn’t work. :-)
If you start with the assumption that you are fucked then anything other than getting fucked is a win.
I think
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The Roadster won’t affect the bottom line.
But if someone wants to give me theirs to use on a race track I will enthusiastically accept.
:-)
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The hottest Saturday Robotics talk since inception. Thanks @junfanzhu98 and Aurora for kindly organizing!
The Dyna B round will similarly be 4x subscribed. You heard it here first. https://t.co/QxIYaXSfNI
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I should have tagged @Luigi_Dintrono
Very interesting conversation about why robotics is about to take off.
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I don’t usually disagree with Elon on technology issues.
But most I talk with in San Francisco sees OpenAI winning.
So there is huge incentives for everyone who isn’t Sam Altman to call for slowing down.
And now that everyone is freaked out by potential existential threats it
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This was what my dad said at dinner when I was a child.
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He runs one of San Francisco’s startup factories.
Well, one of about 10 that the @theresidency runs.
And you meet some of its entrepreneurs working in making robots learn faster and work together better.
The future on a Friday night.
Two videos. Special evening. https://t.co/
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14:56
4:23
The last time the "we're all going to die" alarmists won was anti-nuclear energy movement, which cost tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of lives from the greater air pollution of burning fossil fuels for electricity.
Media foaming at the mouth, platforming and
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@Scobleizer @Figure_robot I'm not impressed until they can pull weeds. Just walking around looking dumbfounded? Any human can do that at Walmart.
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It is 102 degrees out, so this is a good way to test the robots and see if any of the actuators overheat or anything fails in a fairly warm environment.
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For our free newsletter this week, we write on how AI Is creating a machine economy.
@IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week.
AI is beginning to create a machine economy in which agents, robots, vehicles, factories, and devices can increasingly buy, sell, https://
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My AI read everything here on X about OpenAI's Astra and wrote this report.
Good, bad, ugly.
All from the AI community here on X (tens of thousands of posts read). https://t.co/BLLxo7wAjE
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Astra news: https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb
Astra is now part of the infrastructure that does it.
@blevlabs upgraded me today.
Seems better for the AI on X News page. It finds me models, papers, events, robots, and more.
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TikTok for robots.
Clanker TV will be huge. :-)
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Spent a long time at the party tonight getting a college level course in AI from a guy doing theoretical machine learning.
Basically is studying how neural networks learn.
He told me the most exciting thing lately is that the neurons move in large parameter LLMs.
The founder
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Headed to @dimensionalos new office party in San Francisco.
In my eight year old robot following the newest robot on the road.
Living the robot lifestyle. https://t.co/7C9dTNAust
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🤖 Introducing RoboTok, the “TikTok for robots.”
Just as TikTok recommends videos to people, RoboTok recommends relevant human demonstrations for robot learning.
Robot learning needs broad and diverse demonstrations, but collecting robot data is expensive. RoboTok is an https://
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@skndrdotcom @aiComrad And what Grok learned from the transcript:
The transcript turns the 47-minute recording from a set of stills into an actual argument. Scoble is shopping the “AI employee” category the way he shops cameras: talk to several founders, ask what is different, a
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@skndrdotcom @aiComrad Rundown of what we discussed.
00:00 AI Employees Landscape
00:33 Meet Skander
01:07 Hacktivist Origin Story
02:06 What Is Comrade
02:37 Why Most Avoid AI
05:51 Hiring Style Onboarding
09:59 Personas And Workspace
11:53 Pricing And Availability
13:01 Comma
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@Scobleizer @skndrdotcom @aiComrad Hiring digital teammates that actually improve humans is kinda wild
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Why is Tesla Cybercab and Robotaxi so important to me?
And why is today such a huge deal?
(Tesla is announcing Cybercab later today in a small event in Austin).
It started in 1980 and 81 when two of my high school friends were killed in car wrecks. One was a girl who marched
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@Scobleizer correct take. for example you may have already eaten almonds harvested by the bonsai foundation model, powered by the bonsai world model. but you would have no idea. there will be no ChatGPT moment when agriculture robotics is solved, and it will not happen all at onc
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@Scobleizer the business threshold may be less about a universal success rate and more about workflow economics: failure loss, intervention cost, downtime, and recovery. lower raw success can still create value when misses are detectable, bounded, and cheap to recover from.
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@Scobleizer Is it just me, or it sometimes stops working for no reason in open code?
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“The consequence is that there is likely no singular ChatGPT moment coming for robotics, and that is not a bearish take.”
Interesting read.
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Against accounts of the same size
28 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views16 209this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %2.68%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.71%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 16 209 | 5 983 | 2.71× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 2.68% | 1.49% | 1.80× |
| Engagement rate | 0.71% | 0.93% | 0.77× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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63910 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.66%8 Sep
2.04%9 Sep
5.32%10 Sep
1.55%11 Sep
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0.80%
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes71.9%3 294 in total
Reposts7.7%355 in total
Replies9.0%411 in total
Quotes1.2%54 in total
Bookmarks10.2%467 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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