ed Memo, I guess. And they're claiming a breakthrough in teaching the robot to pick up unfamiliar items. Oh yeah.

So if you're looking at individuals, Mike Benz would be one of the people I look at. But there are a lot of individuals on X. So if you just look who I follow, I mean, if I follow them on X, they're probably influencing me in one way or another. You know, obviously Elon Musk, etc.

Anyway, this new robot, they're making a claim that they have trained it to have what they call an intuition for grasping new objects. So apparently one of the biggest problems with robots, which yeah, I think for 20 years I've been seeing them say they claim they've figured out how to do this, but maybe they've done it, which is if a robot sees a new item, it doesn't necessarily know how to pick it up or how to handle it unless it has been trained on that very item.

So it would handle an egg the same as an anvil unless it had been trained that those are two different things. But in theory, this company thinks that they've solved that so that the robot would now have the same intuition a human would have or close to it that they could pick up objects.

Now, that makes me wonder, how close are we to actual robots that are useful? Because I don't know. I thought that problem was already solved, but maybe that's one of the big ones. So I would be surprised if Optimus has not solved that already, but they're competing companies.

And then the big question I have about robots is if they're driven by AI, how do they avoid hallucinating? We don't have any way to make robots stop hallucinating. So if you ask it a question, it would still hallucinate at this point in history. Right?

I used Grok yesterday. I asked it what notable people have claimed they've been influenced by me and it gave me a list of people that some of them I said oh I knew that one you know I knew that person mentioned me or I know that person included me in a book and then it got to Lex Fridman and it said that Lex Fridman had said a number of positive things about me on his podcast and I thought to myself, really, I feel like I would have heard about that. Somebody would have mentioned it or sent me the clip.

So I wrote it down because it was for a project. But then I reminded myself to check it the next day. So I used Grok a second time and I asked it all right what did Lex Fridman say about me and Grok said he's never mentioned you. Now this is the same AI one day later and depending on how I asked the question it gave me a definitive detailed — it even said what he said about me and none of it was true according to Grok.

So how do you build that into a robot? Now I do think Grok is probably the best AI out there. It seems to be beating the test the best, but I'm really curious how far we are from Grok having the right kind of reliability.

Speaking of robots, one of the AI pioneers, you probably heard of him, Ilya Sutskever. I believe he was one of the founders or first technical people for OpenAI and ChatGPT. He left I think he left but he gave a speech looked like it was some kind of college speech. He said quote we live in the most unusual time in history because AI will soon do everything humans can do. Why? Because your brain is — here's the important part — because your brain is a biological computer. So a digital one can match it. Jobs, skills, economy, everything changes when AI masters all human abilities.

So do you remember my 2013 book that said almost everything and still went big? And one of my sort of major frames in that book was that your brain is a moist computer or that people were basically moist computers. So I've been saying the same thing that your brain is a mechanical although it's moist and it runs on chemistry that's basically a machine.

Now this is a big deal if you think that brains are magic and that you have something called a soul and the soul is helping you make decisions. If you think that, then you