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Why AI companies may sell robots and smart glasses below cost

Kevin Kelly says the next step for AI is spatial intelligence, as current models fail in robot bodies due to a lack of gravity, distance, and three-dimensional space understanding. He identifies the primary bottleneck as insufficient quality data, which may lead AI companies to sell robots and smart glasses below cost to gather it.

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The next step for AI is spatial intelligence, says Kevin Kelly. Today's models learned from text, but fail when engineers put them in a robot body because they have no sense of gravity, distance, or three-dimensional space.

"The primary bottleneck restraining the arrival of this world model is the lack of sufficient quantity of quality data," Kelly says. — Read the rest

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