Mark Cuban: Robotics Will Be Far More Transformative Than Large Language Models
Mark Cuban offered his view of the future of AI and robotics during an appearance this week with the All-In podcast:
MARK CUBAN: So, I’ve got two kids in college, and what I tell them is: if you’re looking for a job at a big company, you’re not going to get it. The big companies can implement what they need to do with AI in the short term. The small- to mid-sized companies, on the other hand, need all the help they can get from AI natives. Walking in, understanding AI, and being able to implement it for that company is a huge step forward for them. So I think that’s one way we’ll adjust. Number two: the tools you have as someone in college-there’s no better time to be in college or just graduating than right now. You have more resources available to you in your phone than anybody in the history of everything. If you want to be an entrepreneur, if you want to do whatever it is, you have every expert right there, available to you. And it’s not going to go as far as you think in the short term. But in the long term, it comes down to robotics. Because the electrical workers-if robotics do what robotics need to do-they’re in trouble. 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. 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. There’s a huge latency, and it’s all text. Their IP is being siloed. They’re going to have to pay for it. So they’ll all have their own specialties. There’ll be millions of large language models-lawyer LLMs, medical LLMs, whatever. Robotics, on the other hand-it’s not even so much about self-driving cars, or what I use in the factories of Cost Plus Drugs. It’s about in your house. It’s about walking down the streets. It’s about doing those things. So, we have to get to a point where it’s impactful enough that you can say to a robot, Clean the house, and it’ll know not to touch Jason’s socks. Right? And they’ll know. The whole idea is robots use video. They capture, and they have to be able to process that video-which means understanding the laws of physics. TUCKER CARLSON: Would you let a robot with a video camera in your house, honestly? MARK CUBAN: Yes. TUCKER CARLSON: Very self-confident man, aren’t you? MARK CUBAN: Right. And beyond that, houses are going to be redesigned. Because right now, when we design houses and when we design robots, we design them to work for us. But the optimal robots aren’t going to look anything like us at all.
