Geordie Rose
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Founder of D-Wave, Kindred & Sanctuary | 2x National Wrestling Champ | BJJ Brown Belt | Inventor of the Molson Choke
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Powered by Carbon, Phoenix is now autonomously completing simple tasks at human-equivalent speed. This is an important step on the journey to full autonomy. Phoenix is unique among humanoids in its speed, precision, and strength, all critical for industrial applications.
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Hard to understand the impact this man had on an entire generation unless you lived through his era. Sheik was an icon. RIP LEGEND OF THE EARTH
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Here’s my 10 cents on why taking a hands-first approach is the only way to build a general purpose humanoid (thread):
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@trboxing
@georgekambosos
Hey Top Rank. I love boxing. Can you get rid of the corrupt judges and fixed fights please? Maybe you might make more $ if the guy who won, I don't know, won? There is no way George won more than 4 rounds.
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Phoenix sharing the stage with Jensen
Pretty cool!
#GTC24
#EmbodiedAGI
#NVIDIARobotics
#AI
@NVIDIAGTC
@NVIDIARobotics
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We built the world's first quantum computers at D-Wave, and have been working on advanced AI systems for more than a decade. I am 99.9% sure consciousness is not a quantum mechanical process except in the trivial sense that everything is. Come at me drug addled quantum weirdos
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Understanding how minds work is the most important piece of knowledge we can gain. It is more fundamental than the physical laws of the universe. Everything we are, everything we can learn, everything we can experience, resides within this wondrous thing we don’t yet understand.
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Almost guaranteed at this point that we're going to be first to deploy humanoids at scale.
#win
#AGI
"We're interested in being the first to deploy 1,000 robots that actually do valuable work in the world,” states
@realgeordierose
in talks with
@herbertong
.
Catch the full interview here:
#AI
#tech
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Hey a thousand likes! I think that might be a new record.
Powered by Carbon, Phoenix is now autonomously completing simple tasks at human-equivalent speed. This is an important step on the journey to full autonomy. Phoenix is unique among humanoids in its speed, precision, and strength, all critical for industrial applications.
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A project I’d support:
Making short videos illustrating ways superintelligent AI starts as a chatbot and goes on to create a beautiful future.
That’s the blocker for some people right now, and it’s just pure lack of imagination.
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Back by (alleged) popular demand, it’s another explainer thread! An intro to teleoperation.
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What's weird is that every use of science involves consciousness ... but we don't know what that is
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More billions for my Bugatti collection
#realtopG
Sanctuary AI secures a new investment from BDC Capital and InBC, bringing the total investment to date to over $140 million. The valuation hasn’t been disclosed.
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@gunsnrosesgirl3
I think the key is having something to look forward to. If you don't, make something up.
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Everyone who has been asking for embodied AGI results, get ready
Today we are collecting data from Phoenix robots for behavior cloning on sortation tasks. Lots of data collection now happening
@TheSanctuaryAI
every day. It's adding to an ever-growing ginormous data lake for training Large Behavior Models :)
#dataismylifenow
#behindthescenes
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Really excited about the potential here. Great synergy between Sanctuary and Microsoft in the creation of systems that understand, and can act on, the world like we do.
Today we’re announcing a collaboration with
@Microsoft
on embodied AI research and development. Our work together includes:
• Researching AI models to power general-purpose humanoid robots, including our robot, Phoenix™
• Leveraging Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure for our
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This post is for entrepreneurs raising funding.
I've raised investment capital for quantum computers (
@dwavequantum
), robots that learn from experience (
@kindredai
), fusion reactors (
@GeneralFusion
) and embodied AGI (
@TheSanctuaryAI
). Over 16 rounds I have raised about US$350M
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@BoxingHistory
He was one of my favorite boxers. He would fight anyone anywhere, beat them pretty easily, and then get robbed by the judges. Massively underrated as able fighter and entertainer.
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Humanoids are robots with hands. What they are *for* is building human-like intelligence.
They do this by providing an immersive vehicle for an AI to gather and learn from data from human-like senses, actions, and environments.
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Yey! Successfully completed the Sun Run today (10k), first actual race since knee surgery about 5 years ago.
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@agilityrobotics
I would absolutely love to have something like this. Count Phoenix and Sanctuary in. Would sort the marketing hype for sure!
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Not just 🇨🇦. We were first, we are best, and we are going to win. 🌍🌕🌹👊
Sanctuary AI is leading the 🇨🇦 humanoid acceleration.
Last week, they introduced the seventh generation of their general purpose robot, Phoenix.
Today,
@TheSanctuaryAI
is partnering with Microsoft.
Some important details from the new generation:
> Enhanced Motion: More
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Hear about Sanctuary's Microsoft collaboration to accelerate AI development for general purpose robots -- check it out!!!
BREAKING: Microsoft's STUNNING Deal With Sanctuary Robots!
Exclusive interview with Sanctuary's CEO Geordie Rose! See link in thread.
Sanctuary AI announces Microsoft collaboration to accelerate AI development for general purpose robots.
This new partnership is just another a
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If I were a young physicist just starting out, I'd work on the problem of what consciousness is.
Could turn out to be central to how the universe operates.
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With Phoenix Gen 7, we believe we have the machine which most closely mimics how humans complete work-related tasks. The quality of data we are able to collect has allowed us to significantly decrease the time it takes our AI control system to learn new tasks.
This is a major
Introducing: Phoenix™ Gen 7
Major improvements, all delivered in less than a year. Our next generation of general-purpose technology marks an inflection point in task automation velocity.
“With Generation 7, we can capture increasing quantities of higher quality, higher
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Constantly seeking happiness and bliss is childish and stupid. We are a warrior species that thrives on struggle, exploration, fighting, suffering and overcoming. I'd rather run a hundred miles to feel my body give out than sit around and meditate like an angsty tween.
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Is there a way to bet against this weird 'AI will kill us all' narrative? ie in 5 years or whatever when nothing bad has happened, is there a way to hold the doomers accountable for being completely wrong?
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The older I get the less sure I am that an objective reality outside of mind (taken for granted in physics) exists. It seems to be possible that reality arises from mind in some strange way and not the other way around.
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One of the OGs of deep learning and a consistent voice of reason in the current madness of AI hype
@AndrewYNg
#abundance360
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Understanding physics requires embodiment (you need to be situated in the physical world to sense and act on it). We are quite far from being able to build embodied AI that is sophisticated enough to do original science.
Sam Altman says the day is approaching when we can ask an AI model to solve all of physics and it can actually do that
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At
#GTC
... bittersweet return to the Bay Area. Lots of memories.
Our CEO,
@realgeordierose
, on our continued collaboration with
@nvidia
: “Embodied AI will not only help address some of humanity’s biggest challenges, but also create innovations which are currently beyond our reach or imagination. Technology this important shouldn’t be built in
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“It’s marvelous!” –
@realgeordierose
discusses the remarkable progress we’ve made in task automation for our general purpose robots in an insightful interview with
@herbertong
.
Watch the full interview here:
#AI
#Technews
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Tl;dr: building a system that can do anything a person can needs two things (spoiler alert, neither of them are legs): human-like hands and a system or ‘brain’ which can move them.
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Major life milestone today, got awarded BJJ brown belt. Been 17 years since I was a zero stripe white belt. Can't stop now, and at some point I need a Brazilian nickname
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I'm on deck to talk about a personal project I've been working on in a couple of hours. It's at the intersection of games, AI, and QC aimed at developing the first useful applications of quantum computers.
Welcome to Day 3 of the 17th Annual AGI Conference!
Today, we continue our exploration of the near-term possibilities of
#AGI
systems, and the unsolved puzzles on the road to achieving human-level intelligence.
Morning Session — 9:00 am PST / 4:00 pm UTC
We kick off with a
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Building real things that actually work is very, very hard. The agility folks are humanoid OGs, much respect
Do something useful, do it reliably every day, and at a rate that creates economic value.
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Robots have been able to walk on two legs since Honda’s ASIMO in the 80s, but this hasn’t unlocked useful work. This is because legs are just a tool to get our hands to where the work needs to be done. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, fine manipulation of the
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The first in the category, the best in the category, and now the scaling-est in the category.
Humanoid robot-making startup Sanctuary AI has struck a deal with a major auto-parts manufacturer for deployment in its factories and additional equity.
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People misunderstand what's hard and what's easy about turning science into technology. The hard part is, in my experience, nearly always manufacturing. AGI is no different. Winning at manufacturing is the key to getting to AGI first.
Scalability in the real world will determine who wins the AI race. YES!
Appeared on BNN Bloomberg this morning spreading the good word. Check it out!
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Now everyone can create minds for phoenix!
Have a concept for
#AGI
?
Try it out on one of the world's most advanced humanoids.
“The era of AI robots powered by physical AI has arrived.”
Our Phoenix robots are now available in
@NVIDIARobotics
latest release of Isaac Sim 4.0.
Read the full announcement:
#AI
#EmbodiedAI
#NVIDIA
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If China's fertility rate continues its recent trend, it will go to zero by 2030. If it stays where it is now, in one generation their population will be cut in half. Population crash is all but guaranteed now, and is a much bigger existential threat to us than global warming.
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Together with MSFT friends we spent 30 seconds closed in the world's quietest room with the lights turned off. Intense!!!
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Scalability in the real world will determine who wins the AI race. YES!
Appeared on BNN Bloomberg this morning spreading the good word. Check it out!
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@pmddomingos
Physics is a science of limits. I don't think people realize that it limits intelligence, in the sense that predicting the outcomes of actions can only be done for short timescales even in principle. I sometimes think that human intelligence may be nearly the best that can exist
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If you want a dose of positivity about our beautiful future listen to it!!!!
an hour of TECHNO-OPTISM w/
@Jason
&
@realgeordierose
:
-- is AI doomerism overblown?
-- are early calls for regulation in AI premature?
-- will an AI-powered humanoid robot be the biggest technological achievement since the steam engine?
don't miss this one, live on
@X
!
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Meditation ultimately teaches that there are no real problems. Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of god.
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It won't be long before we can automate pretty much anything a person can do seated at an assembly or manufacturing station. Game changer
Robots Doing Stuff - Placing Object in Plastic Bag | Ep. 44
Grabbing an object as thin as a plastic bag is an incredible challenge for robotic hands, but Phoenix robots have the fine manipulation required to do it.
#RobotsDoingStuff
#PhoenixRobot
#Humanoid
#GeneralPurposeRobot
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@amasad
Computers (the real things, not the the theoretical abstractions) have always been built to solve real problems. While the people you mention were interested in and contributed to both mathematical foundations and computers, early computers were *not* invented to show math was
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@timecaptales
@fasc1nate
The fact that you think an iPhone would have saved him may mean you don't understand him or his situation at all... just saying
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Ok 10 minutes into the three body problem on Netflix and I already want to vomit blood out of my eyes. Does it get any better? I don't think it's possible to get any worse?
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We are hiring for a very interesting role -- setting up the data flow pipeline for collecting first-person data from our robots.
This is an opportunity to define and implement the 'webtext' of humanoid robots -- a data set that can be used to train models, analogous to LLMs, but
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We're starting a new thing where every week we'll show Robots Doing Stuff. Hope you get a kick out of them!
Robots Doing Stuff - The Ziploc Experience | Ep.1
A Sanctuary
#GeneralPurposeRobot
plays with a ziploc bag. Watch the whole experience in the thread below.
#RobotsDoingStuff
(1/4)
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Hey look I won a thing
Sanctuary AI’s Co-Founder and CEO
@realgeordierose
has been inducted into this year’s BC Innovators Hall of Fame. We congratulate all of this year’s inductees and are grateful for the recognition of Geordie’s work.
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People obviously could never survive long enough to reach other star systems. People who believe aliens have visited Earth: what's different about them that allows them to cross such vast distances?
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This was awesome, thanks from both myself and Eric as Phoenix :-)
@xprize
@anoushehansari
@peterdiamandis
@ArcherAviation
@adamgoldstein13
@PeterDiamandis
@DeblinaSarkar59
➡️ Geordie Rose discussed Sanctuary AI’s mission to create the first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. We also got to Zoom with a Phoenix Robot.
cc:
@RealGeordieRose
@TheSanctuaryAI
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Gave the keynote at the BC Business Hall of Fame induction ceremony tonight. Was cool.
Main message: the future isn't something that happens to us. It's something we build. Don't be afraid of AI. Use it to build the future you want.
#BLBC
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Imagine the biggest market for a physical product you can. Are you thinking of phones? Cars? Property?
Nope. It's humanoid robots delivering labor.
The market for human-level capability humanoids is bigger than the global wage bill.
#MadeForWork
#NotARender
Exciting to see our
#PhoenixRobot
in this
@BBCWorld
feature along with quotes from our CEO,
@realgeordierose
:
#GeneralPurposeRobots
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Holy hell Dune 2 was boring.
Was close to just walking out but stuck with it. Could have easily cut half of it.
Best part was Bautista's management style, learned some tactics I'm going to try at work.
#morescreaming
#morenecksnapping
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Put simply: hands are what allow us to change the world. The lack of human-like hands and the control systems that make them move is the main reason why there’s a massive gap between what people can do and what robots can do today.
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If you want to join a team committed to being first to AGI let's talk. DMs open.
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@neofinancial
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Very cool
We believe D-Wave is now the first company in the world to demonstrate quantum supremacy on real-world problems. It was achieved using our latest generation Advantage2TM quantum computer. These problems cannot be solved by classical computers, full stop.
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If you aren’t prioritizing creating hands that are as close to a person’s hands as possible, you will end up with a special purpose tool. Don’t get me wrong – this is great for a narrowly defined specific set of work tasks like tote and box moving in a warehouse, but can’t help
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A short but important thread.
1/3 Sanctuary views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is human-like general intelligence.
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Increasingly I feel like the pursuit of intelligence is a massive missing the point thing, and instead we should be pursuing conscious first person experience
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I had knee surgery about 4 years ago. It ended chronic pain I had for years and in that regard it was a huge success. But it changed my gait and made it so I couldn't run without limping. This was very hard as I really enjoy running and had been working up to an ultra before the
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Absolutely terrific presentation by Suzanne Gildert on what needs to be done to build human-like intelligence.
#CDLSuperSession2023
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Working on it
I want robots
I want robots so cheap they're piling up like garbage
Robots so adaptive they form feral packs in the woods
Robots so durable they watch geology flow like water
Robots so wise they face tragedy with a knowing nod
I want REAL robots and I want them NOW
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Glad to see
@TheSanctuaryAI
on top where we belong
#winthepodium
Over 2,000 members in the humanoid bot community. Come join the fun!
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Another excellent article covering Phoenix and Carbon
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@proetrie
Football teaches important lessons about discipline, teamwork and brotherhood that are fairly unique to that sport. Highly recommend to everyone. Played many years still got PhD in theoretical physics.
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If you're interested in minds, consciousness, what it means to be sentient, and other related issues, from an engineering perspective, follow us!!! We will have a lot of cool guests also - people who are leaders in AI and robotics.
Fresh out of the podcast studio: the first episode of the Sanctuary AI Ground Truth Podcast is now available, featuring co-founders and hosts
@realgeordierose
(CEO) and
@suzannegildert
(CTO). Watch now:
#AIPodcast
#GeneralPurposeRobots
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Look I won a thing
Thank you
@wearebctech
for formally recognizing the hard work of our co-founder and CEO
@realgeordierose
at the annual Technology Impact Awards.
Congratulations to all the other 2023 BC Innovators Hall of Fame inductees and their families. Get the full list here:
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This isn't Ilya's recipe. Everyone has been doing this, including us back through kindred, for at least a decade.
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Let's build millions of super intelligent robots
Our partnership with global automotive leader
@MagnaInt
sparked significant news coverage on how we will scale our Phoenix robots in order to bring AI into the physical world. Thomas Seal (
@TW_Seal
),
@Bloomberg
’s Vancouver Bureau Chief, highlighted the dexterity and adaptability
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It's really cool to see the promise of humanoid general-purpose robots turning into a reality!
Also, I'm more convinced than ever that we are on the fastest path to human-like general intelligence.
!
Robots Doing Stuff | 60 Tasks, 60 Seconds
How many things can our general-purpose robots do? A lot. This week we’re sharing a quick montage video with some
#RobotsDoingStuff
highlights.
This video was also shared in the first of a new blog series called "How to Create a
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Working on it
Jenson Huang at today's COMPUTEX keynote in Taiwan:
"The next high-volume robotics product [following self-driving cars] that's going to be manufactured by robotic factories with robots inside will likely be humanoid robots."
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Matt Meeks and Vincent Clerc have joined us on our mission to help scale a new kind of AI system, that understands and acts on the world the same way we do, into customer environments.
“It is astronomically awesome to be able to deploy and scale this type of technology into the real world. But that awesomeness comes with very different kinds of problems to overcome.” - Geordie Rose, Co-Founder and CEO, Sanctuary AI
Learn more about how Sanctuary AI is
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