Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Parker's Vineyard, Personal Agents
TBPN and guests debate a concrete AI regulation proposal aimed at slowing capability development to 2040, then discuss near-term opportunities in personal agents and cheap robotics.
The gist
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The AI 2040 proposal would pause new frontier training runs and cap compute at data centers running 10,000 or more H100-equivalent chips.
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Personal agents handling routine tasks like mail sorting and bill payment are deployable today and carry lower stakes than frontier AI development.
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Cheap 3D-printable robots like the Hugging Face SO-100, costing around $200 to $400, let indie developers experiment with physical AI without expensive humanoid hardware.
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Compute controls risk pushing AI development underground, similar to nuclear proliferation, while also enabling regulatory capture by a handful of large players.
"My experiment here is plugged right into Codex. And that's of course probably quite expensive, definitely pretty slow. These paintings took between one hour and two hours depending on the methods the model chose to use. But it's quite cool to see what you're able to do already."
▶ Play at 44:0097 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Claire Vo, and Dan Shipper.
See all on the Codex page"This arm that I'm using here, right behind me, this is a Hugging Face SO-100 robot, which is an open-source, fully 3D printable. You just need to get the actuators, which are much cheaper — around $200 or so — but that's incredibly cheap for robotic equipment and what you're a..."
▶ Play at 49:47What they recommend · 4 picks
"My experiment here is plugged right into Codex. And that's of course probably quite expensive, definitely pretty slow. These paintings took between one hour and two hours depend..."
"This arm that I'm using here, right behind me, this is a Hugging Face SO-100 robot, which is an open-source, fully 3D printable. You just need to get the actuators, which are mu..."
"I had Astra use computer use to play a video game that I very much enjoy playing called Balatro. It's sort of like a modified poker game. It did very well. It won. I was not abl..."
Thijs Simonian
2 picks · guest
"My experiment here is plugged right into Codex. And that's of course probably quite expensive, definitely pretty slow. These paintings took between one hour and two hours depend..."
"This arm that I'm using here, right behind me, this is a Hugging Face SO-100 robot, which is an open-source, fully 3D printable. You just need to get the actuators, which are mu..."
John Coogan
2 picks
"I had Astra use computer use to play a video game that I very much enjoy playing called Balatro. It's sort of like a modified poker game. It did very well. It won. I was not abl..."
"Computer use in iRacing is something I'm going to experiment with this week."
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