[UncleMeat]

But why are robots and LLMs connected? The only reason why a robot feels more connected to AI than a self driving car is science fiction.

[roryirvine]

Yeah, it's all scifi posturing. Same with the "Optimus will begin colonising Mars in 2026" line that they were still pushing just a few months ago.

There's perhaps a chance that some part of it might happen someday, but right now the main thing is to distract attention from Tesla's lack of model development and SpaceX's much-vaunted AI business being based on reselling datacentre space at a loss.

[Voultapher]

For what it's worth they aren't reselling at a loss but rather at an eye watering profit [0].

[0] This assumes Anthropic and Google actually keep paying for at least 1 year of the signed 3, since they can cancel their contracts easily.

[lossolo]

Most SOTA humanoid robots use transformers, which are also at the core of LLMs. They also use NVIDIA GPUs for simulation training.

[UncleMeat]

If they are useful for humanoid robots, why aren't they useful for self driving cars, which are just robots of a different shape?