Mark Cuban says the real disruption from artificial intelligence won’t come from large language models but from robots that can see, move, and act in the physical world.
In a panel discussion at the All-In Summit, the billionaire investor says the current AI craze is limited by its text-based nature.
While chatbots have dominated headlines, Cuban explains they can’t sense or process the physical environment. He predicts that AI’s next wave in robotics has the potential to upend labor markets.
“But in the long term, it comes down to robotics. Because the electrical workers, if robotics do what robotics need to do, they’re f*****.
Because here’s the disconnect right now that I think people don’t understand in AI. On one hand,
we’re so used to the large language models, right, but those are all text-driven. They don’t know
anything that’s happening here. They can’t acquire all this video. They can’t adapt…
Robotics, on the other hand, it’s not even so much about self-driving cars or what I use in the
factory…
So if you tell, you have to get to a point. We have to get to a point for it to be impactful, where you
can say to a robot, ‘Clean the house,’ and they’ll know, not to touch Jason’s socks, right? And they’ll know right the whole idea is robots use video, and they capture, and they have to be able to process that video which means understanding the laws of physics.”